num_pages: 224
description: Sixty years after the armistice, the horrors of the First World War were still spurring antiwar literature, one of the most compelling of which is Timothy Findley's The Wars. Slim and elliptical, but told with a level-headed, lyrical clarity, The Wars traces the atrocities and absurdities of war through the journey of a young Canadian officer through trenches in which barbarism and civilization exist side by side.
language: English
title: The Wars
titlecomplete: The Wars
genres: Fiction, Historical, War, World War I, Canadian Literature, Canada, School, Literature, Classics, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 9254
awards: name: Governor General's Literary Awards / Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général
publisher: Penguin Books Canada, Limited