Introduction / Stephen McVeigh and Nicola Cooper -- Continuing to serve: representations of the elderly veteran soldier in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / Caroline Nielsen -- Veterans, disability, and society in the early United States / Daniel Blackie -- Confederate defeat and the construction of lost cause nostalgia / David Anderson -- Stoics: creating identities at St Dunstan's 1914-20 / Julie Anderson -- Not another hero: the Eastern and Associated Telegraph Companies' creation of the heroic company man / Wendy Gagen -- Italian disabled veterans between experience and representation / Maria Salvante -- The detective as veteran: recasting American hard-boiled writing as a literature of traumatic war experience / Sarah Trott -- "A fabulous potency": masculinity in Icelandic occupation literature / Daisy Neijmann -- Trauma in Bosnia: European film and the peacekeeper's dilemma / Ian Roberts -- Weapons of war: masculinity and sexual violence in Pat Barker's Double vision / Sophie Smith.