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The First World War did not end on 11 November 1918. Its physical, psychological, and cultural consequences shaped the decades that followed and continue to resonate today. For AQA A-Level English Literature, understanding the aftermath is essential: many of the texts you study were written not during the war but in its wake, and their meaning is shaped by the experience of living with what the war had done.
The psychological consequences of the war were massive, poorly understood, and inadequately treated. The term "shell shock" — coined by Dr Charles Myers in 1915 — covered a wide range of symptoms:
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