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Term used during the [[First World War]] to describe the psychological trauma soldiers suffered serving on the war's front line. Deeply traumatised men were unable to deal with the brutality and cruelty they experienced in the Great War. The horror of trench warfare and its consequences was often thematised in literature, e.g. in [[ | Term used during the [[First World War]] to describe the psychological trauma soldiers suffered serving on the war's front line. Deeply traumatised men were unable to deal with the brutality and cruelty they experienced in the Great War. The horror of trench warfare and its consequences was often thematised in literature, e.g. in [[Virginia Woolf]]'s ''[[Mrs Dalloway]]''. | ||
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Term used during the First World War to describe the psychological trauma soldiers suffered serving on the war's front line. Deeply traumatised men were unable to deal with the brutality and cruelty they experienced in the Great War. The horror of trench warfare and its consequences was often thematised in literature, e.g. in Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway.