RARA-AVIS: Re: Post-Traumatic stress disorder fb cliche; did it start with Lord Peter Wimse

From: jacquesdebierue ( jacquesdebierue@yahoo.com)
Date: 23 Jun 2008


--- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "docsavage80" <docsavage801@...> wrote:

>
> Did the cliche of post-traumatic stress disorder fbs start with Lord
> Peter Wimsey? He had fbs to WWI.

It's not a cliché® It's real. Many writers served in Vietnam. It's natural that they would put their experience in their books.

> For Vietnam specifically, Sarge Steel gets named as the first comic
> book private eye to serve in the Vietnam War in the Fine Art of Murder
> by Max Allan Collins. Was he the first known fictional private eye in
> any genre to serve in the Vietnam war?
>

Could be. When did he first appear?

Best,

mrt



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