Title: The Wars
Content:  In Penguin's Modern Classic edition, published 2005, Canadian author Guy Vanderhaeghe wrote the “Introduction” for The Wars. Vanderhaeghe describes his first experience reading the novel on the “last leg of a long bus trip.” Vanderhaeghe states that he could not stop reading and, upon finishing the book, he was "strangely exalted and disturbed by an encounter with a novel harrowing and uplifting, a novel that was both a marvelous work of art and a passionate indictment of the first cruel idiocy of the twentieth century." Vanderhaeghe also sets The Wars in the context of other works of historical war fiction. His main distinction between The Wars and works like War and Peace, The Naked and the Dead, From Here to Eternity, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and A Farewell to Arms is the compressed 
Title: The Wars (film)
Content:  Frazer as Clive ; Craig Gardner as German Soldier ; Graeme Gibson as Devlin ; Maurice Good as Sergeant Joyce ; Bob Hannah as Major Mickle ; Paul Hubbard as Captain Ord ; Jeff Hyslop as Clifford Purchas ; Eleanor Kane as Woman ; James Kidnie as Martial ; Leo Leyden as Bishop ; Hardee Lineham as Bonnycastle ; Robin McKenzie as Stuart Ross ; David Main as Mr. Lawson ; William Merton Malmo as Collins Louis Negan ; Jefferson Mappin as Teddy Budge ; Marti Maraden as Lady of Easy Virtue ; Anne McKay as Child ; Richard McMillan as Harris ; David Robb as Major Terry ; Stephen Russell as Cigarette ; Abigail Seaton as Juliet ; Heather Summerhayes as Heather ; Irene Sutcliffe as Nurse ; Simon Treves as Patient ; Annette Vyge as Madam ; Timothy Webber as Corporal Bates 
Title: The Wars
Content:  The Wars is a 1977 novel by Timothy Findley that follows Robert Ross, a nineteen-year-old Canadian who enlists in World War I after the death of his beloved older sister in an attempt to escape both his grief and the social norms of oppressive Edwardian society. Drawn into the madness of war, Ross commits "a last desperate act to declare his commitment to life in the midst of death." Years later, a historian tries to piece together how he came to commit this act, interviewing the various people Ross interacted with.
Title: The Wars
Content:  The plural "Wars" in the title implies that there are multiple conflicts within the novel. Robert's time in the army and his personal conflicts are among them, creating both external and internal struggles. Guy Vanderhaeghe, in his introduction to The Wars in Penguin's Modern Classics 2005 edition, states that "Like the frieze of horse and dog, or the occasional glimpse of Harris's blue scarf, the wars [emphasis in original] hovers in the reader's consciousness, heard as the faintest of dire whispers. It is as impossible to boil simple meaning from these two words as it is to impute clear and unambiguous motives' for Ross's actions, or to determine how many angels can dance on the head of a pin." The bald third-person summaries of casualties, contrasted with Robert's idealized view of war, also heighten the book's impact on readers.
Title: The Wars
Content:  The Wars utilizes first-, second-, and third-person narrative points of view, which is very rare in literature. The narrative moves between voices, each telling part of Robert's story. The novel is also an example of historiographic metafiction.
Title: The Wars (film)
Content:  The Wars is a Canadian drama film, directed by Robin Phillips and released in 1983. An adaptation of the novel The Wars by Timothy Findley, the film centres on Robert Ross (Brent Carver), the immature and closeted gay son of an upper class Rosedale family who enlists to serve in the Canadian Army during World War I. As with the novel, the film blends a number of scenes set at war with depictions of the formative experiences from childhood that have led Robert to enlist, including his relationships with his disabled sister Rowena (Ann-Marie MacDonald) and their parents (William Hutt and Martha Henry). The cast was drawn predominantly from the stable of actors Phillips had worked with at the Stratford Festival.
Title: The Wars
Content:  A feature film version of The Wars was released in 1983. The film was directed by Robin Phillips from a screenplay written by Findley, and starred Brent Carver as Robert Ross. The novel has also been adapted for the stage by Dennis Garnhum. It premiered at Theatre Calgary in September 2007.
Title: The Wars (film)
Content: Brent Carver as Robert Ross ; Martha Henry as Mrs. Ross ; William Hutt as Mr. Ross ; Ann-Marie MacDonald as Rowena Ross ; Jackie Burroughs as Miss Davenport ; Jean LeClerc Captain Taffler ; Domini Blythe as Lady Barbara d'Orsey ; Alan Scarfe as Captain Leather ; Margaret Tyzack as Lady Emmeline ; Barbara Budd as Nurse Turner ; Susan Wright as Ella ; Richard Austin as Michael ; Rodger Barton as Charles ; Paul Batten as Poole ; Rod Beattie as Levitt ; Tom Bishop as Rider ; Kirsten Bishopric as Peggy Ross ; Richard Blackburn as Sergeant ; Fred Booker as Verger ; Dwayne Brenna as Tom Bryant ; Michael Caruana as Soldier ; Shirley Cassedy as Honor ; Clare Coulter as Eena ; Richard Curnock as Minister ; Shirley Douglas as Mrs. Lawson ; David Dunbar as Mr. Brown ; 
Title: The Wars
Content:  of The Wars, usually being under two hundred pages (depending on the edition). Vanderhaeghe points towards Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front as being perhaps the only other work to "so efficiently compress and crystallize the horrors of combat in so few pages." Vanderhaeghe continues, however, that "But unlike Remarque, Findley achieves this impressive economy by piecing together a collage of arresting images and brief, telling scenes that not only cohere in a compelling narrative but whose form mimics the fractured lives of soldiers and civilians shattered by war." Throughout his introduction, Vanderhaeghe also argues that "The Wars is the finest historical novel ever written by a Canadian," ending with the personal confession that "The Wars has always been, and shall remain for me, the loveliest, the most moving of novels."
Title: Wars (film)
Content:  Wars (Guerres) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Nicolas Roy and released in 2021. The film stars Éléonore Loiselle as Emma Ducharme, a young military cadet who is sexually assaulted by her commanding officer (David La Haye) after they are stationed in Eastern Europe. The cast also includes Fanny Mallette and Martine Francke. The film premiered in competition at the 2021 Karlovy Vary Film Festival, where Loiselle won the award for Best Actress. It was acquired for commercial distribution by Be For Films.

Question: Who is the author of The Wars?
Answer: Timothy Findley.
Timothy Irving Frederick Findley.