If you liked Kate Mosse’s The Winter Ghosts…
… and would like further tales of the consequences of war, we recommend you read these books:
Pat Barker: Regeneration
The first of Pat Barker’s acclaimed trilogy os set in a 1917 hospital caring for shell-shocked soldiers. Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen are among the patients being nursed back to fighting health by army psychiatrist William Rivers. As the men recover, rivers struggles to make the decision to send them back to the front line.
Susan Hill: Strange Meeting
John Hilliard, a young subaltern, is shocked by the state of his colleagues when he does return to the western front after being ill. Hilliard strikes up a friendship with a new member of the battalion who is also struggling with the mood of the remaining soldiers. It’s a searing account of the tension and stress caused by this horrific war.
