Regeneration (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Pat Barker
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Historical novel
- Time of Work: The summer of 1917
- Setting: Edinburgh, Scotland
- Principal Characters: Dr. William H. R. Rivers, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves, Billy Prior, Sarah Lumb
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: Poetry or poets, Novelists, War, World War I, Military life or service, Armed forces, Hospitals, Battles, Pacifism, Psychotherapy or psychotherapists
- Locales: Edinburgh, Scotland
World War I was in some respects more terrible than World War II. For one thing, both sides were using poison gas, which was subsequently outlawed by international agreement and played no significant part in World War II. The worst aspect of World War I was the stalemated trench warfare, with hundreds of thousands of troops living like moles, cowering under artillery bombardments and making sporadic bayonet charges through barbed wire obstacles into merciless machine-gun fire. The generals on both sides used men as cannon fodder because they could think of no other way to conduct a war....
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