also a real person: the army psychiatrist Dr William Rivers. He is treating shell-shocked officers; through him we meet Sassoon and, through him, Robert Graves and Owen. The final part, The Ghost Road, beat, among others, Salman Rushdie to win the Booker in 1995. In effect, it was the entire trilogy that was being rewarded: it is on many people's lists of the greatest of all war novels. But why the great war?from Bryan Appleyard: from the Sunday Times: Pat Barker: We Write in Blood
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