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Lädt ... Aftermath: Travels in a Post-War Worldvon Farley Mowat
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In 1953, Mowat (Never Cry Wolf), who had been a soldier in the Canadian army, returned to see the France and Italy he had known only under wartime conditions. He relates how he and his wife, Frances, bought a car in England and drove through both countries, where he was astonished to be welcomed as a returning war hero. Savoring scenes both familiar and changed, the couple avoided tourist centers, sought out quiet places and relished local histories, architecture, landscapes and, above all, the regeneration of people who had put their wartime suffering behind them. Among his memorable discoveries, Mowat recalls the little pottery commune in an Italian seacoast cave near Positano where, without modern technology, the craftsmen and their families lived and worked, taking pleasure in ancient methods of refining and working clays; and, farther along the road, a fishing village where the fishermen limited their catches to what they and their neighbors could eat to avoid overfishing and thus preserve an age-old way of life for their children. Although time must now have changed much of what Mowat found, this is a disarmingly upbeat and gracefully written memoir.
Mowat returned to Europe in 1953 to retrace his wartime footsteps. Encountering populations changed by tragedy yet determined to move forward, he returned with stories of the courage and resilience of ordinary people. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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This memoir captures a trip that Mowat made with his first wife Fran to Europe in 1952. He had received an advance to write a book about his army regiment, the Hastings and Prince Edward regiment. He decided to spend the whole advance by flying to England, buying a new car, and then travelling Europe revisiting the sites he had been with his regiment. If you know Mowat at all you can imagine that this trip involved lots of liquor and hijinks. It also has some of the most heart-wrenching accounts of the battles of World War II that I have ever read. The chapter about the resistance fighters in the Vercors region of France was enough to make me weep and that was all second-hand because Mowat had never been there during the war. When he talks about the battles he was actually in you can practically hear the bombs explode and the screams of the dying men.
Thanks Farley for showing us the world through your eyes. (