Regeneration

by Barker, Pat

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Plume, 1991. Softcover. VG. Spine creased. Light rubbing, ink to title page.. no. First novel in the trilogy, based on Siegfried Sassoon's wartime breakdown. Trade Paperback

Book summary

The first novel in Barker's World War I trilogy. Siegfried Sassoon, a homosexual and a poet, protests the war with a statement in a London newspaper and, rather than being court-martialed, is sent to the Craiglockhart War Hospital in the care of a psychiatrist, William Rivers, who specializes in shell-shock. His treatment of Sassoon and the other patients at the hospital--among them poet Wilfred Owen--leads him to question the rationale for his work: to send these men back to the front. The novel is an eloquent protest of the madness of war.