Shell Shock: Twin Sisters Born Into New York's Gilded Age Struck Down by the Horrors of War

by Dennis Whitehead

PAPERWHITE VERSION - Compatible with all Kindle devices The true story of Dorothea and Gladys Cromwell, young society women born into New York's Gilded Age, desired to do their part in America's participation in the First World War. Sensitive artists by nature, they volunteered to serve with the American Red Cross Canteen Service in wartime France. Witnessing firsthand the horrors of modern warfare, working for days on end without sleep, the twin sisters fell prey to the trauma of shell shock. Indirectly impacted by the concussive effects of explosions, their suffering was not recognized as deeper than their sensitive feminine natures. The result was a terrible double tragedy that began to awaken the world to the suffering of noncombatants. What happened on that ship, on that frigid January 1919 evening, one-hundred years ago, is one of the great untold stories of World War I, and the impact that modern warfare had upon not just the men in the trenches, but upon its women and other non-combatants, as well as civilians, that remained unrecognized until the Vietnam War.

50 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 25, 2018

About the author

Dennis Whitehead is a writer, photographer, and producer in Arlington, Virginia.

He is the author of The Day Before the War, recounting the events of August 31, 1939 along the German-Polish border that ignited World War Two in Europe.

Love and Sacrifice is his latest book, documenting an American family as they travel the world in military service, climaxing in unimaginable tragedy.

An updated edition of Love and Sacrifice is now available from the following outlets:

Amazon in print and ebook (https://www.amazon.com/dp/0986348821)

iBooks (https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/love...)

Barnes and Noble (https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/love... for color
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/love... for B&W)

Kobo (https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/love...)