Aftermath: Travels in a Post-War World - Softcover

Mowat, Farley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811733386 ISBN 13: 9780811733380

Publisher: Stackpole Books, 2006

Synopsis

In 1953, Farley Mowat, a Canadian infantryman during World War II, returned to Europe, a place he knew only during the ravages of wartime. Together with his wife, he returns to England, France, and Italy to reexamine the past and find hope in the future. This is a unique and compelling look at a world that has undergone dramatic changes in the last fifty years, described in vintage Farley Mowat style.

About this title

From the Publisher:

"A brilliant writer."
-James Herriot

From the Inside Flap:

IN SEARCH OF PEACE
From one of the world's most beloved writers comes this wise, poignant, and compassionate memoir of a soldier who returned to the scene of battle. In 1953 Farley Mowat and his wife travelled from London to Italy in a claret-colored Hillman convertible, revisiting the sites that Mowat had first seen as an infantryman during the nightmare of World War II. What he found was a land that was--after so many years of misery, tragedy, and destruction--overwhelmingly and energetically embracing life, nature, and hope. He met former French resistance fighters, battle-scarred veterans, and ordinary men and women who told him the stories only inhabitants of a war zone can tell: stories of the evils of war and the courage, sacrifice, and nature of human endurance. Aftermath: Travels in a Post-War World is vintage Mowat: powerful, moving, and unfailingly entertaining.

About this edition

• Publisher: Stackpole Books
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0811733386
• ISBN 13: 9780811733380
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 239