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Ghost road

Famed psychologist Dr. William Rivers faces the wrenching challenge of restoring men to health, only to send them back to war and almost certain death. Lieutenant Billy Prior, who is cured of shell shock by Rivers at Craiglockhart War Hospital, is compelled beyond reason to return to the battlefield for a fourth tour of duty. For both men, the war is inescapable and consuming.

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  • "Famed psychologist Dr. William Rivers faces the wrenching challenge of restoring men to health, only to send them back to war and almost certain death. Lieutenant Billy Prior, who is cured of shell shock by Rivers at Craiglockhart War Hospital, is compelled beyond reason to return to the battlefield for a fourth tour of duty. For both men, the war is inescapable and consuming."@en
  • "As World War I winds to a close, two men--Dr. William Rivers, a psychologist whose dedicated healing sends men back to the brutal front, and Billy Prior, a shell-shocked soldier determined to rejoin the final English offensive--are profounded affected by the events of the era."@en
  • "This winner of the 1995 Booker Prize completes the author's exploration of the First World War. Lieutenant Billy Prior is a recovering shell-shock patient on his way back to battle in France. In the intense psychological climate at the front, assumptions about the relationships between men, women, and other men are tested in the extreme."
  • "This winner of the 1995 Booker Prize completes the author's exploration of the First World War. Lieutenant Billy Prior is a recovering shell-shock patient on his way back to battle in France. In the intense psychological climate at the front, assumptions about the relationships between men, women, and other men are tested in the extreme."@en
  • "Lieutenant Billy Prior is on his way back to France in 1918 after he has been rehabilitated from shell-shock. With his fellow patient Wilfred Owen, Prior believes that the war can do nothing to surprise him. Amiens, the battle of Joncourt and Sambre-Oise experiences continue to astonish."@en
  • "The concluding volume of the trilogy which opened with 'Regeneration' and 'The eye in the door'. Billy Prior is on his way back to France. He says good-bye to his psychologist, William Rivers, largely responsible for Prior's recovery from shell-shock. Prior believes that the war can do nothing to surprise him. But from the moment when, staggering out of the line after the Battle of Joncourt, he watches the sun rise once more, he is continually astonished."@en
  • "PLAYAWAY. In this concluding volume, Lieutenant Billy Prior is on his way back to France. It is August 1918, and passing through London he says goodbye to his psychologist, William Rivers, who is largely responsible for Prior's 'recovery' from shell-shock. With fellow ex-patient Wilfred Owen, Prior believes that the war can do nothing to surprise him. But, from the idyllic week he spends among the ruins of Amiens to the moment he staggers out of the line after the Battle of Joncourt, he is continually astonished."
  • "Psychologist William Rivers struggles with the dilemma of healing men who must then rejoin the battle. Patient Billy Prior wants to return to the French front, though the war is nearing an end."@en
  • "World War One, as experienced by Billy Prior, a soldier recovering from shell-shock and his psychologist, William Rivers, who is reminded of a community of former head-hunters with whom he used to live."@en
  • "The author retells history with moving personal stories of the people who were in the trenches through the ferocious final phase of World War I."@en
  • "Lieutenant Prior is on his way back to France, and passing through London, he says goodbye to his psychologist, William Rivers, who is largely responsible for his recovery from shell shock, and Prior believes that the war can do nothing to surprise him, but he is continually astonished."@en
  • "Based on a mix of real and imagined characters and events, this book concentrates on Sarah, a young woman working in a munitions factory, and on Wilfred Owen. The position of women has been a sub-theme throughout the books and here it moves to the forefront. The 1995 Booker Prize winner."
  • "This book challenges our assumptions about relationships between the classes, doctors and patients, men and women, and men and men. It completes the author's exploration of the First World War, and is a timeless depiction of humanity in extremis."@en
  • "This novel centres on two men divided by class and experience. One is Billy Prior, cured of shell shock by William Rivers. The other is Dr. Rivers, himself faced with the dilemma of restoring men to health to be sent back to war and certain death."@en

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  • "Talking books"@en
  • "Biographical fiction"
  • "Biographical fiction"@en
  • "Large print"@en
  • "Compact discs"@en
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Cartographic maps atlases"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "War stories"
  • "War stories"@en
  • "Speeches, oratory"@en
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  • "Ghost road"@en
  • "The ghost road"@en
  • "The ghost road"

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