num_pages: 277
description: In July 1942, Farley Mowat was an eager young infantryman bound for Europe and impatient for combat. This powerful, true account of the action he saw, fighting desperately to push the Nazis out of Italy, evokes the terrible reality of war with an honesty and clarity fiction can only imitate. In scene after unforgettable scene, he describes the agony and antic humor of the soldier's the tedium of camp life, the savagery of the front, and the camaraderie shared by those who have been bloodied in battle.
language: English
title: And No Birds Sang
titlecomplete: And No Birds Sang
characters: Farley Mowat
genres: Biography Memoir, Memoir, Autobiography, Nonfiction, History, War, Canada, Military Fiction, World War II, Biography
ratings_count: 1599
publisher: Seal Books/Bantam Ltd.