The First World War ravaged the male body on an unprecedented
scale, yet fostered moments of physical intimacy and tenderness
among the soldiers in the trenches. Touch, the most elusive and
private of the senses, became central to war experience. War
writing is haunted by experiences of physical contact: from the
muddy realities of the front to the emotional intensity of trench
life, to the traumatic obsession with the wounded body in nurses'
memoirs. Through extensive archival and historical research,
analysing previously unknown letters and diaries alongside literary
writings by figures such as Owen and Brittain, Santanu Das recovers
the sensuous world of the First World War trenches and hospitals.
This original and evocative study alters our understanding of the
period as well as of the body at war, and illuminates the perilous
intimacy between sense experience, emotion and language as we try
to make meaning in times of crisis.
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