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NONFICTION: And No Birds Sang, Farley Mowat ·Fin-de-Siècle Vienna, Carl E. Schorske · Misia, Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale My Many Years, Arthur Rubinstein Sex in History, Reay Tannahill Show People, Kenneth Tynan · The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe
...BIRDS SANG by Farley Mowat; Atlantic-Little, Brown...
...Farley Mowat is a small, bearded Canadian who writes with a certain bitter charm about the thoughtless destruction of the Far North and its native inhabitants. He has a passion for permafrost, Eskimos, whales, seals and wolves. He has lived a chapped and manly life in rural Ontario, on the Keewatin Barren Lands and in balky old boats off Newfoundland...
...Mowat begins his story on a familiar note of innocence: "On the second day of September, 1939, I was painting the porch of our clapboard house in the rural Ontario town of Richmond Hill when my father pulled into the driveway at the helm of his red convertible . . . 'Farley, my lad, there's bloody big news...
Despite a rag-doll arm, caused by German bullets in World War I, the elder Mowat is eager to get back into his army unit, the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment. Baby-faced Farley is eventually commissioned in the "Hasty Pees" after the air force rejects him for being four pounds underweight. There are the usual training shenanigans, reminiscent of Evelyn Waugh's Men at Arms, and the inevitable cockiness that precedes the regiment's first bloodying. That occurs during the amphibious landing in Sicily, part of the Allies' first massive invasion of Europe in 1943. Taking...