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.The Wars is quite simply one of
the best novels ever written about the First World War.