bookshelves: film-only, wwi, published-1991, mental-health, tbr-busting-2014, winter-20132014 Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Brazilliant Laura Read from November 20, 2011 to January 30, 2014 Description: Regeneration, one in Pat Barker's series of novels confronting the psychological effects of Wor...
A case could be made that the misery and suffering endured by those serving in combatant roles by European soldiers of WWI were the most extreme of any war in history. (I explicitly limit this generalization to soldiers from European countries because they were in the trenches for four full years w...
I found this a fascinating book!! I am really interested in anything about medicine and so found the description of early psychological treatments of WWI veterans very interesting. Also, that the whole trilogy is based on fact, on the real life meeting of the poet Sigfried Sassoon and his doctor dur...
I found this a fascinating book!! I am really interested in anything about medicine and so found the description of early psychological treatments of WWI veterans very interesting. Also, that the whole trilogy is based on fact, on the real life meeting of the poet Sigfried Sassoon and his doctor dur...
Hm. So, I didn't like this one quite as much as Regeneration. Prior has started suffering from periods of black out, which he finds somewhat upsetting, and he meets with Dr. Rivers to determine the cause. In other news, Siegfried Sassoon pops in for a hot one for no other reason than to give Dr. Riv...
In the midst of WWI, decorated officer / poet Siegfried Sassoon publishes a statement against the war. Because he is rich, he is sent to Craiglockhart to be treated by Dr. Rivers for neurasthenia instead of being court martialed. All of this really happened. So begins Regeneration, which examines t...
This book was weird. I thought it was going to be about this woman's quest to find out what happened to her brother (events take place during WWI), which did happen...However, in setting up this relationship at the beginning of the novel the author made some, shall we say, interesting choices, and I...
The First World War as experienced by the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, recuperating in a mental hospital surrounded by their shell-shocked and crippled comrades. Masterfully written - beats Birdsong hands-down.
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