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And No Birds Sang (published in 1979, revised in 2012) is Canadian author Farley Mowat's autobiographical account of his military service as a junior Canadian infantry officer in the United Kingdom and Italy during World War II.
In July 1942, Farley Mowat was an eager young infantryman bound for Europe and impatient for combat. This powerful, true account of the action he saw, fighting desperately to push the Nazis out of Italy, evokes the terrible reality of war with an honesty and clarity fiction can only imitate.
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Apr 16, 2012 · And No Bird Sang and A Whale for the Killing are the first books in a new Douglas & McIntyre library of handsomely redesigned paperback editions of Farley Mowat's work. Turned away from the Royal Canadian Air Force for his apparent youth and frailty, Farley Mowat joined the infantry in 1940.
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In July of 1942, Mowat was an eager, idealistic infantry lieutenant barely out of his teens, bound for Europe on a troop ship and impatient to see action. This powerful true account of the action he saw, and against all odds survived, evokes the terrible reality of warfare with an honesty and clarity fiction can only imitate.
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Sep 9, 2010 · And no birds sang. by. Mowat, Farley. Publication date. 1979. Topics. Mowat, Farley, World War, 1939-1945, Soldiers. Publisher. Boston : Little, Brown.
combat veteran he realizes that war is no game - it's a dirty, bloody, horrifying business. He takes you along for the ride : you are there in the midst of the carnage & madness they call war. A visceral experience you won't soon forget.
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Feb 15, 2017 · A war plane protest, a little vodka and a U.S. blacklist. We remember Canadian author Farley Mowat with archival tape from the day he was removed from a secret no-fly list in...
