Craiglockhart, a hospital for officers ravaged by their experiences in trench warfare, is the setting for Pat Barker's 'Regeneration'.
Here the poet Siegfried Sassoon, author of an article condemning the war, came under the care of psychiatrist W.H.R Rivers whose duty, as he saw it, was to return Sassoon to all the horrors of the Front, because Sassoon was sane, was healthy – and he had made a commitment.
But while the encounter of Sassoon and Rivers is central to 'Regeneration', it is the exploration of the character of Rivers himself, the agony of the other patients and the insights into their minds, that makes this a tour-de-force.
A superb novel related with chilling clarity and vivid compassion.
Written By : John Jakes
Dylan Baker
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Length : 6 hours
Categories : Historical War & Military Action & Adventure Historical
Our Price : $26.00 $17.95
Savannah {or} a Gift for Mr. Lincoln is a tale of Southern Civil War home life as the end draws near. View...
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Written By : Bernard Cornwell
Paul McGann
Publisher : Harper Collins UK
Length : 2 hours 46 minutes
Categories : Historical War & Military
Our Price : $12.75
Richard Sharpe was fed up. The army decided when he woke up, when he slept, when he ate, when he marched and when he was... View...
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Written By : Bernard Cornwell
Tim Piggot-Smith
Publisher : Harper Collins UK
Length : 6 hours 4 minutes
Categories : Historical War & Military Action & Adventure
Our Price : $16.99
Having survived the battle of Crécy, Thomas is sent back to England, charged with finding the Holy Grail... View...
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Written By : Bernard Cornwell
Paul McGann
Publisher : Harper Collins UK
Length : 3 hours 10 minutes
Categories : Historical War & Military
Our Price : $12.75
Right at the moment Nate Starbuck begins to doubt his own courage, the Faulconer Legion is spitefully stripped from him... View...
Written By : Pete McCarthy
Narrated By : Pete McCarthy
Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks
Length : 2 hours
Type : Autobiography Biographical Travel
Price : $16.75
The audio of the million-selling book - Pete McCarthy's hilarious journey in search of his Irish roots.
McCarthy's tale of his hilarious trip around Ireland has gained thousands of fans all over the world.
Pete was born in Warrington to an Irish mother and an English father and spent happy summer holidays in Cork. Years later, reflecting on the many places he has visited as a travel broadcaster, Pete admits that he feels more at home in Ireland than anywhere. To find out whether this is due to rose-coloured spectacles or to a deeper tie with the country of his ancestors, Pete sets off on a trip around Ireland and discovers that it has changed in surprising ways.
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