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Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War by Michele Barrett

connordt's review

2.0

An awkward book with a lot of errors. Reads a bit like a first or second year university paper with weak research and analysis to match. It felt like a drawn regurgitation of the service record of 5 soldiers, which is at least interesting in of itself. Probably could have done with a new/better editor.
The premise focuses around how shell shock “might” have affected these soldiers. “Might” meaning a lot is attributed to it (and maybe rightfully so) but with little evidence to actually support it.