shell-shock

The anguishing power of these scenes—even stronger now than in the shell-shock of the days just following the attack—comes not only from the sight of those silent, distant figures, arms flailing, jumping from a window 101 floors high, but from the people below who watch, weeping and screaming.

A Dark Day's Enduring Life Dorothy Rabinowitz 2011

Flavia knows almost as little about the passions and secrets of her unusual household: her aloof, still-grieving father; her father's devoted estate-manager, prone to spells of postwar shell-shock; and her cruel-seeming siblings: "I still didn't know why my sisters hated me so much."

Stains of Blood on New-Fallen Snow 2011

It's the story of a Native American returning from World War II with a severe case of shell-shock (what we'd call post-traumatic stress disorder today), who feels utterly lost in the world.

MIND MELD: Non-Genre Books for Genre Readers 2009

It is a decent little detective novel with a compelling character of whom I am anxious to read more, but notable for me first for the inclusion of shell-shock/PTSD post-WW1 and subject of a very interesting series of articles on Tor.com and for the way it is set in a time and a world that is almost recognisable – almost ours.

Illustration Friday: Propagate 2010

It is a decent little detective novel with a compelling character of whom I am anxious to read more, but notable for me first for the inclusion of shell-shock/PTSD post-WW1 and subject of a very interesting series of articles on Tor.com and for the way it is set in a time and a world that is almost recognisable – almost ours.

January Short Book Reviews 2010

The town had an actual town square, around which a shell-shock case from World War II named John Fox still walked every day.

The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 1 2010

  He felt terrible for the student whose work had been ripped to shreds by his classmates, whose face always registered a kind of shell-shock, who would rather melt into a puddle and slide under the door than have to address the room, thank his classmates for their “helpful suggestions” and tell them he “had a feeling” the story's ending was crap.

Leave Off Doves 2010

There was post-traumatic stress disorder before the Vietnam War — they just called it names like hysteria, melancholia and shell-shock.

Talking Heads, Bugle Boys 2010

In World War I, the condition was referenced as "shell-shock."

Marcia G. Yerman: America's Veterans: The Collateral Damage of War Marcia G. Yerman 2010

It is a decent little detective novel with a compelling character of whom I am anxious to read more, but notable for me first for the inclusion of shell-shock/PTSD post-WW1 and subject of a very interesting series of articles on Tor.com and for the way it is set in a time and a world that is almost recognisable – almost ours.

January Short Book Reviews 2010