Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0452270073, Paperback)

Regeneration, one in Pat Barker's series of novels confronting the psychological effects of World War I, focuses on treatment methods during the war and the story of a decorated English officer sent to a military hospital after publicly declaring he will no longer fight. Yet the novel is much more. Written in sparse prose that is shockingly clear -- the descriptions of electronic treatments are particularly harrowing -- it combines real-life characters and events with fictional ones in a work that examines the insanity of war like no other. Barker also weaves in issues of class and politics in this compactly powerful book. Other books in the series include The Eye in the Door and the Booker Award winner The Ghost Road.

Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0140123083, Paperback)

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.

Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0140236236, Paperback)

When Dr William Rivers treats a patient at a mental hospital who has spoken out against World War I, the relationship that develops between them makes them debate the logic of their respective positions. Thus the doctor questions the sanity of the war which is his duty to return his patients to.

Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0141030933, Paperback)

Craiglockhart War Hospital, Scotland, 1917, where army psychiatrist William Rivers is treating shell-shocked soldiers. Under his care are the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, as well as mute Billy Prior, who is only able to communicate by means of pencil and paper. Rivers' job is to make the men in his charge healthy enough to fight. Yet the closer he gets to mending his patients' minds the harder becomes every decision to send them back to the horrors of the front. "Regeneration" is the classic exploration of how the traumas of war brutalised a generation of young men. The first book in the "Regeneration" trilogy.

Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0525934278, Hardcover)

Stressed by the war, poet, pacifist, and protestor Siegfried Sassoon is sent to Craiglockhart Hospital, where his views challenge the patriotic vision of Dr. William Rivers, a neurologist assigned to restore the sanity of shell-shocked soldiers. 10,000 first printing.

Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0670828769, Hardcover)

"Regeneration" begins "The Regeneration Trilogy" and is followed by "The Eye in the Door" and "The Ghost Road". The novel has at its centre a real life encounter between W.H.R. Rivers, an army psychologist, and Siegfried Sassoon.