**"Calls to mind such early moderns as Hemingway and Fitzgerald...Some
of the most powerful antiwar literature in modern English
fiction."--***The Boston Globe
*
The first book of the Regeneration Trilogy--a Booker Prize nominee and
one of Entertainment Weekly's 100 All-Time Greatest Novels.
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, Regeneration has
been hailed by critics across the globe. More than one hundred years
since World War I, this book is as timely and relevant as ever.