Re:Was there PTSD in the ancient or medieval world?
by pjc50 on Monday April 27, 2020 @01:16PM
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Or disease or desertion. The majority of Napoleon's troops in the famous Tufte diagram were not lost in battle. The Boer war similarly lost more to disease than combat.
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Re:Was there PTSD in the ancient or medieval world?
by csours on Monday April 27, 2020 @01:54PM
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Yup. I think of the Battle of the Bulge this way as well. It's much easier for Americans to identify with the Battle of the Bulge because we have access to many more dramatizations of it, but it was only a hint of what was going on on the Eastern front!