TRENCHANT

I have just finished the Regeneration Trilogy

by Pat Barker.

It is my second reading. It is very good.

The trilogy centers itself on the final years of World War I and the issue of battle fatigue.

All of the characters are involved in the rehabilition of troops for return to the battlefront either as patients or therapists.

Anti-war elements are involved. Real people appear among the fictional.

While the situation is quite bleak, the fact is that these are quite life affirming, lively, even humorous novels.

There is a lot of sex of all kinds to keep one's perspective on the fact that these people are living their lives despite their desperate situation.

I am reading all of Barker just now. She has made this period her specialty. Separate books deal with the lives of the 'munition girls', the women who worked to assemble ammunition and other weaponry.

There are also some novels about the period aside from the war.

They are all quite enjoyable.