<DIV> <b>"The trilogy is trying to tell something about the parts of war that don't get into the official accounts" ?Pat Barker</b><br><br> <b>The first book of the Regeneration Trilogy and a Booker Prize nominee</b><br> <br> 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.<br> <br> One of the most amazing feats of fiction of our time, <i>Regneration </i>has been hailed by critics across the globe. As August 2014 marks the 100-year anniversary of World War I, this book is as timely and relevant as ever.</div>