The Wars

The war to end all wars.

 For the past 10 days, I've been reading 'The Wars', the winner of the Governor General's award for English language fiction. The book was originally published in 1977 by the Canadian author, Timothy Findley. The story is about Robert Ross, a sensitive nineteen-year-old Canadian Officer, who went abroad to France during the First World War. The scenery through the texts is well described enough to give you the rich images; Trench warfare, mud and smoke, chlorine gas, and rotting corpses. The book is written in very unique style, that include all three first-, second-, third-person narrative and time shift of back and forth. After finishing the book, I became curious of the title. Why is it 'The Wars' when the story is only about the First World War; Also what does it mean by the introduction quote 'The War to end all wars'? It was not hard when you think about the symbol of the 'War' represents. War is a conflict. The conflict can be meaning physical warfare, but an internal conflict of a person as well. Since the discovery, I realized what it truly means by 'the Wars' and 'The war to end all wars'. What a modern classic.