Regeneration by Pat Barker

I have been reading this trilogy out of sequence - I read The Ghost Road last year. Regeneration is set in a military hospital in Craiglockhart during the First World War, where soldiers recovering from the traumatic effects of the conflict are being treated, assessed, and as soon as possible returned to fight. While harrowing I found Regeneration less disturbing than The Ghost Road, perhaps because it was set away from the trenches and the front line. I liked the addition of real people into the fictional work, including Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon.
Another book I found interesting set during the same period of history was Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks, this was our bookgroup read a couple of years ago, this tackled the subject from a slightly different angle, still highlighting the horrors of warfare and the senseless waste of life suffered by a whole generation.

I am counting this book towards the four month reading challenge.