"The Wounded Generation": Bearing the invisible scars of war

When the "Greatest Generation" returned home from World War II, many veterans had suffered psychic wounds not diagnosed or ...

Book excerpt: "The Wounded Generation" by David Nasaw

The historian examines how service members returning home from World War II were changed in ways undiagnosed and untreated, ...
The New York Times

How World War II Transformed America and the Globe, for Better and Worse

In “The Wounded Generation” and “1942,” the historians David Nasaw and Peter Fritzsche show how civilians struggled with the long tail of the war. By Elizabeth D. Samet Elizabeth D. Samet is the ...
The Conversation

After the first world war, séances boomed – and dead soldiers ‘wrote’ home

Alice Vernon does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...