Word: mowat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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NONFICTION: And No Birds Sang, Farley Mowat ∙Dreams in the Mirror, Richard S. Kennedy ∙Fin-de-Siècle Vienna, Carl E. Schorske Maugham, Ted Morgan ∙Misia, Arthur Gold & Robert Fizdale ∙Show People, Kenneth Tynan ∙The Last Nomad, Wilfred Thesiger
NONFICTION: And No Birds Sang, Farley Mowat ∙ Dreams in the Mirror, Richard S. Kennedy ∙ Fin-de-Siecle Vienna, Carl E. Schorske Maugham, Ted Morgan ∙ Misia, Arthur Gold & Robert Fizdale ∙ Sex in History, Reay Tannahill ∙ Show People, Kenneth Tynan...
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
...question remains: What took Mowat 35 years to write and publish this book? In an "Anti-Epilogue" that he says was written only at the insistence of his publisher, the author hurriedly speaks of old agonies, the balm of forgetfulness, and of his conviction that all wars are futile and immoral. There is even the ritual reference to what Wilfred Owen called the old Lie: "Dulce et decorum est/ Pro patria mori"- how sweet and beautiful it is to die for one's country...
...Mowat was right. The statements are superfluous. And No Birds Sang needs no rhetoric. It can fall in with the best memoirs of World War II, a classic example of how unexploded emotions can be art fully defused...