Ben Shephard Books

'This is a book about real people, real stories, real heroes. You might not know their faces, and you might not know their names - but once you've met them, you'll never forget them.'

Drawing on their diaries and letters, Ben Shephard reconstructs events at Belsen in the spring of 1945- from the first horror of its discovery, through the agonising process of trying to save the survivors, to the point where Belsen became 'more like a Butlin's Holiday camp than a concentration one'.

The book is a reprint of the first American edition originally published by Knopf in 2011. It offers readers a fresh opportunity to engage with its content, which may include compelling themes, intricate characters, or a captivating plot that resonates with contemporary issues. This reprint ensures accessibility for new audiences while preserving the original's essence and impact.

Their work ranged across fields that today carry a variety of labels - neurology, psychology, psychiatry, zoology - but which for these men formed part of the same enquiry: the search for a science of the mind. the big ideas that work - and the big ideas that turn out to be wrong.

I cannot imagine what has got into the central nervous system of the men.'A War of Nerves is a history of military psychiatry in the twentieth century - an authoritative, accessible account drawing on a vast range of diaries, interviews, medical papers and official records.

After the Great War, the millions killed on the battlefields were eclipsed by the millions more civilians carried off by disease and starvation when the conflict was over.