In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder.
Jan KaronTags: war vietnam-war veterans posttraumatic-stress-disorder world-war-two world-war-1 world-war-one ptsd post-traumatic-stress-disorder battle-fatigue shell-shock
Here at great expense,' [Colonel Groves] moaned to Oppenheimer, 'the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots.
Steve SheinkinTags: science military physics world-war-two manhatttan-project
A single three-bladed fan turned slowly in the centre of the ceiling, barely disturbing the scorching air which filled the small prefabricated hut like an oven...
Kevin CowdallTags: world-war-two desert-survival kevin-cowdall north-africa-campaign
To his surprise he felt a moment of regret, of sadness that his quest for his mother and father would soon be over. As long as he searched for them he was prepared to be hungry and ill, but now that the search had ended he felt saddened by the memory of all he had been through, and of how much he had changed. He was closer now to the ruined battlefields and this fly-infested truck, to the nine sweet potatoes in the sack below the driver's seat, even in a sense to the detention center, than he would ever be again to his house in Amherst Avenue.
J.G. BallardTags: change world-war-two concentration-camps nine-sweet-potatoes
Jim knew that he was awake and asleep at the same time, dreaming of the war and yet dreamed of by the war.
J.G. BallardTags: dreaming world-war-two
We saved the lives of a whole family that night. Children, parents, uncles, aunts, grandparents, all sailed to safety in Sweden inside a little fisherman’s boat.”
Johannes aka ‘BB’
The Informer by Steen Langstrup
Tags: crime-fiction world-war-two noir-fiction scandinavian-mysteries
As she walked, the horror stories she'd heard from Felix and the others became real. This is what their underground efforts were fighting against. These camps, these guards, were reality to thousands of people... Reality to the person who had just made the trip up the chimney. If they did not stop this madness, it would be the end of them all.
Tricia GoyerTags: world-war-two
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