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This was good, but given it's high rating here at Goodreads, I expected more. I have really just scratched the surface of world war one fiction and only one or two pieces of non-fiction. My fascination continues.
We are never at the front. The book takes place in 1917 primarily at the Craiglockhart War Hospital, and one horrible scene at the National Hospital in London. Barker does a good job describing the kinds of horrors that led to battle fatigue and she also does a pretty good job of describ ...more
We are never at the front. The book takes place in 1917 primarily at the Craiglockhart War Hospital, and one horrible scene at the National Hospital in London. Barker does a good job describing the kinds of horrors that led to battle fatigue and she also does a pretty good job of describ ...more
A very powerful and telling novel based in a British military psychiatric hospital during WWI. Three of the main characters and the hospital existed and I get the impression that the author, Pat Barker, did much research on them when writing this book.
Many of the horrors that Captain Rivers' young officer patients have experienced are unique to WWI, such as crossing "no man's land" to spend 50 hours in a trench under bombardment, the damage done and the internal conflicts of those that lead men ...more
Many of the horrors that Captain Rivers' young officer patients have experienced are unique to WWI, such as crossing "no man's land" to spend 50 hours in a trench under bombardment, the damage done and the internal conflicts of those that lead men ...more
Oct 13, 2007
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Oct 02, 2011
Debbie Hoffman
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Tien
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Nov 03, 2019
Karen Michele Burns
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it was amazing
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May 17, 2023
Ellen
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