How far do you agree that both novels are about the psychological effects of war? A 200 word essay on Slaughterhouse-five and Regeneration

Neither the structure of Slaughterhouse-five by Kurt Vonnegut nor Regeneration by Pat Barker are linear in structure. Slaughterhouse-Five is cyclical in structure while Regeneration is peppered with flashbacks. The significance of this is that both novel's structures mirror the complexities of the effects that war has on the characters. Neither the main character of Slaughterhouse-Five, Billy Pilgrim, or the main character of Regeneration, Siegfried Sassoon, suffer any serious physical injuries in their time at war, in fact, the only injury that Billy Pilgrim sustains in the war is from a pair of "low cut civilian shoes he had brought for his father's funeral" which gives him a "sore hip". The psychological effects of the war on both Billy and Siegfried are formidable. Billy is hidden in an underground meat storing facility while an entire city full of civilians is firebombed to the ground by his own people while Sigfried can still recall the "charred and blackened" corpses on the battlefield of the First World War and he wrote poetry about watching his friends dieing. In this respect, both novels are certainly about the psychological effects of war on the individuals that experience it as we will find out in the full essay...