Regeneration [Paperback]

The trilogy is trying to tell something about the parts of war that don't get into the official accounts –Pat Barker

The first book of the Regeneration Trilogy and a Booker Prize nominee
 
In 1917 Siegfried Sasson, noted poet and decorated war hero, publicly refused to continue serving as a British officer in World War I. His reason: the war was a senseless slaughter. He was officially classified mentally unsound and sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital. There a brilliant psychiatrist, Dr. William Rivers, set about restoring Sassoon's sanity and sending him back to the trenches. This novel tells what happened as only a novel can. It is a war saga in which not a shot is fired. It is a story of a battle for a man's mind in which only the reader can decide who is the victor, who the vanquished, and who the victim.
 
One of the most amazing feats of fiction of our time, Regneration has been hailed by critics across the globe.  As August 2014 marks the 100-year anniversary of World War I, this book is as timely and relevant as ever. Makes the conversations between her poets and the doctors at the hospital sound absolutely authentic... extends the boundaries of antiwar fiction in her eloquent novel. —The New York Times

Earns... a place on the shelf of WWI literature. —Kirkus

Extremely accomplished and intelligent... Barker is adept at dramatizing moral dilemmas that have no easy answers. —Entertainment Weekly

One of the most deserving winners of the prestigious Booker fiction prize in recent years. —The New York Review of BooksPat Barker has earned a place in the first rank of contemporary British writers with such novels as Union Street, Regeneration (shortlisted for Britain's prestigious Booker Prize and chosen by the New York Times as one of the four best novels olƒ+