Charles Glass

A personal history of the friendship between the great war poets, Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, Soldiers Don't Go Mad tells the story of psychiatry, the traumatic effects of war, and the healing properties of poetry. Second Lieutenant Wilfred Owen was twenty-four years old when he was admitted to the newly established Craiglockhart War Hospital for treatment of shell shock....

In this extensively updated edition of a book that was widely praised on its first publication nearly a decade ago, the acclaimed foreign correspondent and author, Charles Glass, brings the story of Syria up to date. In these pages, he looks at how the Assad government emerged victorious from a conflict that has left the country in ruins, wide swathes...