The Ghost Road Sports in WWI Its aim was less to

Its aim was less to defeat the enemy than bleed him to death and a battleground whose once fertile terrain is even now a haunted wilderness

Recruited by British intelligence during World War I

was conscripted to fight the Germans in the opening days of World War I

The assassination of the tsarists prime minister Pyotr Stolypin

It was to be the war to end all wars

The Ghost Road Sports in WWI Its aim was less toDescription by Pat Barker Paperback Winner of the 1995 Booker Prize Set in the closing months of World War I, this towering novel combines poetic intensity with gritty realism as it brings Pat Barkers Regeneration trilogy to its stunning conclusion. In France, millions of men engaged in brutal trench warfare are all ghosts in the making. In England, psychologist William Rivers, with severe pangs of conscience, treats the mental casualties of the war