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Regeneration by Pat Barker
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Regeneration by Pat Barker is a classic exploration of how the traumas of war brutalised a generation of young - published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.'I just don't think our war aims -whatever they may be- and we don't know - justify this level of slaughter.'The poets and soldiers Siegfri ...Show more
Regeneration by Pat Barker
Category: Fiction
In Craiglockhart war hospital, Doctor William Rivers attempts to restore the sanity of officers from World War I. When Siegfried Sassoon publishes his declaration of protest against the war, the authorities decide to have him declared mentally defective and send him to Craiglockhart.
Regeneration by Pat Barker
Category: Fiction | Series: Regeneration Ser.
Presents an exploration of how the traumas of war brutalised a generation of young men.
Regeneration by Pat Barker
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
Regeneration by Pat Barker is a classic exploration of how the traumas of war brutalised a generation of young - published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. 'I just don't think our war aims - whatever they may be - and we don't know - justify this level of slaughter.' The poets and soldiers Sie ...Show more
The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker
Category: Fiction
Drawing of the history of the Pemberton Billing libel trial in which all Britain's military troubles were laid at the door of the British homosexuals, themes of persecution and prejudice are explored alongside questions of class and identity. The Eye in the Door, winner of the 1993 Guardian Fiction Pr ...Show more
The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker
Category: Fiction | Series: Regeneration
London, 1918. Billy Prior is working for Intelligence in the Ministry of Munitions. But his private encounters with women and men - pacifists, objectors, homosexuals - conflict with his duties as a soldier, and it is not long before his sense of himself fragments and breaks down. Forced to consult the m ...Show more
The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Regeneration Ser.
Set in the closing months of World War I, this towering novel combines poetic intenstiy with gritty realism as it brings Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy to its stunning conclusion. In France, millions of men engaged in brutal trench warfare are all "ghosts in the making." In England, psychologist Wi ...Show more
The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
Category: Fiction | Series: Regeneration Ser.
1918, the closing months of the war. Army psychiatrist William Rivers is concerned for the men who have been in his care - particularly Billy Prior, who is about to return to combat in France with young poet Wilfred Owen. This book offers an account of the devastating final months of the First World War ...Show more