"Something Quite On Its Own"
One of the most enduring aspects of the Great War, at least in the western world, is the fascination we have with trying to understand the horrific pressures individuals faced in extended years of combat, especially in the midst of the endless peril of the trenches of Flanders and France.Study and discussion this week concentrates on the ways in which this focus has played out in memoir, in war poetry, in fiction - both contemporary and modern - and in the attention of medicine to the physical and psychological effects of this wounding in both body and mind.
