[PEN-L:393] Re: Re: Re: Re: Saving Private Ryan

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:06 PM 7/30/98 EDT, you wrote:
>There are supposed some great memoirs from 'the Great War'
>Siegfried Sassoon's one of the best known as well as
>some great literature including recently Pat Barker's Trilogy
>and a novel called Birdsong (have forgotten the author)

I am a big Pat Barker fan. She includes Sassoon as a major figure in the
first part of the Trilogy called "Regeneration." This is the story of a
psychiatrist (based on a real figure) whose job it was to restore
shell-shocked soldiers to "mental health" so they could return to the
trenches. One of the men he treats is Sassoon. It is sort of a Huckleberry
Finn take on how society treats certain insane instutions like slavery or
war as sane. Very highly recommended.

Louis Proyect
(http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)