The Stress of Combat, The Combat of Stress: Caring Strategies Towards Ex-Service Men and Women

Foreword by Sir Charles Huxtable KCB CBE, Commander in Chief, UK Land Forces, 1988-1990. In Great Britain today there are thousands of individuals who, having served their country, have been unable to return themselves to health in mind and body, and who require specialist help and care. This book tells the story of the horrors and fears veterans could not leave behind on the battlefield, and which continue to haunt them and disrupt their lives, and those close to them. It is an essential guide to a wide range of battle stress, war-experience and mental conditions. The case histories and types of patient will be of interest to the Caring Professions, the Social Services, the Armed Forces, and to all Families with members serving, or who have served, in the Armed Forces.

Major (Retd) Roy Brook was a welfare officer with the Ex-Services Mental Welfare Society. His task was to visit and befriend ex-Service men and women from all three services and the Merchant Navy. Over a ten-year period, he made over 5000 visits to clients throughout the midlands and south of England and Wales.