Ross has an affair with Lady Barbara D'Orsey in England, where he is further traumatized by meeting the officer he admired during training, and discovering he has been horrifically wounded and he would rather die than survive maimed. Deaths are mostly meaningless, accidental, and pitiful. These individuals suffer various horrors Rodwell, for example, is later sent "down the line" to a very traumatized group of men whose cruelty to animals causes him to commit suicide.
Findley describes the destruction of war through the disturbance in families, death of. Ross's experiences in the trenches include a gas attack (during which he saves his men by rigging makeshift gas-masks from urine-soaked cloths) the shooting of a German soldier who turns out to have been peacefully watching birds, not reconnoitering and the bombing of a dugout which has become home to him and other soldiers. In the novel The Wars by Timothy Findley it is clear that Mr. During a hellish, stormy voyage on a crowded troopship carrying 140 horses to Great War, he has to shoot a wounded horse this event traumatizes him, for he is sensitive to suffering in animals as well as humans, and has an exaggerated sense of responsibility. In the novel The Wars by Timothy Findley, the role of female characters causes internal conflicts in the male characters. He completes his training, and has an abortive sexual inititiation in Lethbridge, Alberts then he is sent overseas. Ross joins the Canadian Army at 19 in response to the accidental death of his beloved handicapped older sister, Rowena. In the 1970s a researcher is trying to understand the full story of what happened to Robert Ross in WWI.
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