Turned away from the Royal Canadian Air Force for his apparent youth and frailty, Farley Mowat joined the infantry in 1940. The young second lieutenant soon earned the trust of the soldiers under his command, and was known to bend army rules to secure a stout drink, or find warm -- if nonregulation -- clothing. But when Mowat and his regiment engaged with elite German forces in the mountains of Sicily, the optimism of their early days as soldiers was replaced by despair. With a naturalist's eyes and ears, Mowat takes in the full dark depths of war; his moving account of military service, and the friends he left behind, is also a plea for peace.
- ISBN10 0770420842
- ISBN13 9780770420840
- Publish Date 1 October 1983 (first published October 1980)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 22 March 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Bantam Books
- Format Paperback (US Mass Market)
- Language English