By Susan Kingsley Kent
Aftershocks experiences how meanings of shellshock and imagery offering the traumatized psyche as shattered contributed to Britons' understandings in their political selves within the Nineteen Twenties. It connects the strength of feelings to the political tradition of a decade which observed impressive violence opposed to these considered as 'un-English'.
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