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Deeply traumatised soldiers of the First World War suffered from shell shock. Men were unable to deal with the brutality and cruelty they experienced in the Great War. The horror of trench warfare and its consequences for soldiers was often thematised in literature, e.g. in Vigina Woolf's Mrs Dollaway.

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