Regeneration

By Pat Barker

Categories: Literature & Fiction

Regeneration is a 1991 novel by British writer Pat Barker and the first book of her Regeneration Trilogy about the First World War. It was adapted into a 1997 film. In 1917 the poet and officer Siegfried Sassoon publicly protests the war and is sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital in Scotland. There the psychiatrist W.H.R. Rivers treats him and other shell-shocked soldiers, including the young poet Wilfred Owen, while questioning his own role in sending men back to the front.

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