angelayoung 's review for:

Regeneration by Pat Barker

4.0

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This book about the First World War, and specifically about the psychological damage it caused, is a book about all wars and all psychological damage. It's also a British Catch-22 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/168668.Catch_22 because if Sassoon is not certified insane he must go back to the front, at which one of the world's most insane activities is taking place. A brilliant evocation of the period and of the fragility and strength of our psyches.