Combat Experience, Comradeship, and Psychological Health

摘要: The twentieth century is marked by events of drastic, traumatic change. These include mass immigration and internment, severe economic downturns, as in the Great Depression, famine, wars. What imprint did these experiences have on lives men women, young old? In Bitter Wounds, a profoundly moving book German victims World War II, Robert Whalen (1984) concludes with an observation that too obvious readily ignored: “when wars are over, all people whose been shattered do not simply return to normal. Everyone involved war some way victim” (p. 15). Many also survivors, now their later years.