num_pages: 227
description: Robert Ross is a Canadian officer caught up in the nightmare world of World War I trench warfare; a world of mud and smoke, chlorine gas and rotting corpses. In this world gone mad, he performs a last desperate act to declare his commitment to life in the midst of death.
language: English
title: The Wars
titlecomplete: The Wars
genres: Canada, Historical, War, Literature, School, Classics, Canadian Literature, Historical Fiction, Fiction, World War I
ratings_count: 9261
awards: name: Governor General's Literary Awards / Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général
publisher: Delacorte Press