The Wars

A psychological, evocative narrative set within World War I. A young man plagued by grief seeks escape by enlisting in the army. Confronting the horrors of war and surrounded by death, he fights to prove his commitment to life.

Grieved by the loss of his beloved sister Rowena, plagued by guilt, and stifled by the habits of Victorian society, nineteen-year-old Robert Ross joins the Canadian army in the hopes of escaping his emotional trouble. Thrust into the gritty carnage of mud, blood, and decaying corpses, Ross endeavours—sometimes with little success—to show that when surrounded by death, he values life.

Told in first, second, and third person, Timothy Findley weaves together a harrowing tale of struggle and pain that teaches us about the cruelties of war - in the world and in ourselves.

• ISBN: 9780735234628, 0735234620
• Author: Timothy Findley
• Publisher: Penguin