The Wounded Generation: Coming Home After World War II
Sixteen million Americans came home from the war, and the country decided not to ask how they were.
David Nasaw examines what happened to American servicemen after 1945: the psychiatric casualties, the strained marriages, the GI Bill, and a culture that wanted the war closed rather than discussed. The sheer scale of what would now be called post-traumatic stress is the central finding, along with how thoroughly it went unacknowledged at the time.
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Tyler Cowen
David Nasaw, The Wounded Generaton: Coming Home After World War II. A good book showing just how much post-traumatic stress disorder there was during and after WWII.
Source · October 2025
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