This is the first scholarly analysis of Australian soldiers who suffered psychologically in the First World War. It is a closely researched and compellingly written work which opens a whole new dimension on a long-ignored aspect of the Australian history of the Great War.  

       Working against the line of the official histories and populist view of WW1, this  counter-history, is unsettling, compassionate. The author explores the sometimes uneasy relationship between the Australian military, the medical establishment, the public and those who returned from the war with their minds shattered. 

        Hailed by experts in Britain as opening a whole new field of Australian history, this book tries to make sense of that forgotten generation of war veterans.

      It also effectively challenges a number of long cherished myths surrounding both the commemoration of the war and the treatment of psychological casualties.

 

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