"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

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The Owensboro Times

Owensboro’s forgotten D-Day hero carried battle scars long after the war

On June 6, 1944, First Lt. John Spalding of Owensboro led 32 men of the U.S. Army’s 1st Infantry Division onto Omaha Beach. They were among the first Americans to charge through the surf and up the ...
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After World War I, séances boomed – and dead soldiers ‘wrote' home

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