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Discuss the Psychological Effects of the Great War on Soldiers, and How Medical Professionals Attempted to Treat ‘Shell Shock.’

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This essay by 17 year old Rose Halls of Brighton College was one of the 2023 Colin Hardy Memorial Prize runners up.  On 19th June 1879, Union Army General William Tecumseh Sherman forebodingly exclaimed that “war is hell” when addressing a group of cadets. It took a mere thirty-five years before this statement became a reality for the 250,000 men …