The experiences and stories of Regeneration are greatly inspired by historical events, sociological influences, and the family history of the author, Pat Barker. Bringing real life poets and their experiences together with a fictional plot surrounding the Great War, Barker was able to produce a novel from an intriguing blend of fact and fiction, one that conveys several aspects of history and pieces them together with first hand knowledge from her family. Tying both the …showed first 75 words of 1244 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1244 total…victims, and made mute by emotional agony. However, an unconditional hero, Siegfried Sassoon spoke out publicly protesting the war, just to have been claimed mentally unsound. With her childhood tattooed in her heart, the factual presence of both Siegfried Sassoon and Doctor William H.R. Rivers, and the history that they had combined, it is of no surprise that Pat Barker had all of the inspiration she needed to complete the psychologically draining novel, Regeneration.