Regeneration Trilogy The Ghost Road, (Paperback)

from DeltaQueen50

The Ghost Road by Pat Barker is the third volume in her First World War trilogy. These books took a very different look at World War I and she did so by mixing real life characters with fictional ones and basing most of her story away from the actual battlefield. This volume concentrates on real ...

from lauralkeet

The third book in Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy continues the story of Billy Prior, a British officer in World War I. In the first book, Prior was treated for shell-shock at Craiglockhart, a hospital in Scotland. In the second book, he struggled to find his way in civilian society and battle ...

from gypsysmom

This book is the final offering in Barker's trilogy about World War I. I had read the first two, Regeneration and The Eye in the Door, when they were first published but this one which was published in 1995 was a victim to lack of time when I returned to school. There are bunches of books publish...

from eleanor_eader

The third chapter in the Regeneration trilogy, and another powerful, moving, gripping look into Dr. River's past, and the effects of WWI on his patients. As with The Eye in the Door we follow Billy Prior as much as Rivers (and, again, glimpses of other current cases in River's London practice); t...

from Citizenjoyce

This is the perfect ending to the Regeneration trilogy. Barker manages perfectly to tie together Rivers' anthropological studies of Malaysian headhunters, for whom the ban on warring with neighboring tribes was a debilitating blow to their culture, with soldiers fighting WWI. The premise in the f...