The Wars

by Findley, Timothy | First World War fiction
Published 20/08/2001 by FABER & FABER in the United Kingdom
Paperback | 240 pages
198 x 128 x 17mm | 196g

Robert Ross, a sensitive nineteen-year-old Canadian officer, went to war - the War to End All Wars. He found himself in the nightmare world of trench warfare; of mud and smoke, of chlorine gas and rotting corpses. In this world gone mad, Robert Ross performed a last desperate act to declare his commitment to life in the midst of death.The Wars is quite simply one of the best novels ever written about the First World War.