num_pages: 216
description: Robert Ross, a sensitive nineteen-year-old Canadian officer, went to war—The War to End All Wars. He found himself in the nightmare world of trench warfare, of mud and smoke, of chlorine gas and rotting corpses. In this world gone mad, Robert Ross performed a last desperate act to declare his commitment to life in the midst of death.
language: English
title: Penguin Modern Classics the Wars
titlecomplete: Penguin Modern Classics 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 Canada