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Although everyone, including a newly promoted General Kildare, knows that "Jonesy" is a scapegoat for the real murderers, the execution must go ahead out of political expediency. Led by Adam, the men wage a tenacious campaign to have Jonesy freed, but all efforts eventually fail. When Jonesy is led out to be executed, the officer in charge of the execution faints, and Adam is forced to command the firing squad himself.
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The novel's main protagonist, Lieutenant (later Major) John Adam (a semi-autobiographical foil for McDougall), is an efficient soldier and leader, who nevertheless finds "the vulture fear" inhabiting his soul after the execution of the Italians. Bound to protect and lead his men as they march through
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on sight, the Canadians take kindly to a pair of buffoonish Italian deserters, more notable for their culinary skills than military prowess. Impetuously, Kildare orders the Canadians to execute the Italians. The Canadians are caught between the obligation to follow orders and the sense that executing
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Like the book, the film seems inspired by the real-life story of Private Pringle, yet focuses not on the alleged criminal but on the other men of his unit. Unlike the book, there are no combat scenes, as the action takes place during the winter stalemate, and in fact given the French location, lack
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aired in 1991. The film differed from the book significantly, taking place in France in the winter of 1944 (oddly enough, during the timeframe depicted, the Canadians in Northwest Europe were concentrated in the Nijmegen Salient). A fictional unit, the Alberta Fusiliers, is depicted, as part of a
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of warfare, now that "the enemy" is no longer a distant and faceless target. Major Bunny Bazin, the most battle-hardened and philosophical of the Canadians, voices the novel's central theme when he states that "execution is... the ultimate degradation of man." Here the term "execution" works both
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The main characters include a Provost Corps officer sent by higher headquarters to oversee the execution, the infantry officer who had lost his nerve in the fighting in Normandy and wanted to gain redemption by carrying out the execution, and the men of the firing squad including a stereotypical
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Eventually, Adam and his men stumble on a chance to redeem themselves when one of their own comrades, Rifleman Jones, a mildly retarded but efficient infantryman, is sentenced to be executed for treason by his own army, after he falls in with a ring of corrupt soldiers who murder an American.
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The novel espouses McDougall's thesis that although the Canadians inhabit a brutal and unforgiving world, they are not intrinsically immoral. War makes men act brutally and inhumanely, but at their root is an essential goodness that even war cannot subsume completely. As
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is a novel that combines visceral depictions of combat with philosophical questions about the blurred boundaries between good and evil. Jones is considered to be a scapegoat.
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The play was directed by Robert Florey, and writing credits went to Frederick Brady (for adaptation) and Colin McDougall (for story).
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of front line positions, and other evidence given in dialogue, the soldiers in the film are located well behind the front line.
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ends with Adam and the other men regaining a measure of their lost confidence, although Major Bazin dies on the battlefield.
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Colin McDougall. Papers and Manuscripts. Rare Books and Special Collections Division, McGill University Libraries.
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The movie was a typical low-budget Canadian affair, with a small dirt road in back-woods Ontario masquerading as
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French-Canadian sergeant and an equally stereotyped halfwit with the comically unlikely name of "Smedley".
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the two Italians in cold blood is ethically unjustifiable—not to mention it being a violation of the
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Other important themes include the abuse of military power, especially in one scene involving Allied
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as one of the most widely read and studied Canadian war novels of the twentieth century.
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fictional formation - presumably a "Sixth Division" wearing black formation patches.
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planning an attack against the Germans that is bound to fail, and the isolation and
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by Colin McDougall. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart (New Canadian Library), 2005.
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There have been at least two dramatic presentations of the novel on television.
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Jonesy's execution is based in part on the real-life execution of Private
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A Keen Soldier: The Execution of Second World War Private Harold Pringle
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literally (the killing of the Italians as a brutal act) and as a
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of 1943. Led by the flamboyant Brigadier Ian Kildare (a modern
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Despite Kildare's strict orders for his men to shoot Italian
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follows the fictional Canadian 2nd Rifles Brigade during the
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Based in part on McDougall's experience as an officer with
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A made-for-television movie inspired by the novel titled
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Governor General's Award for English-language fiction
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Colin McDougall
New Canadian Library
Governor General's Award for English-language fiction
ISBN
978-0771094392
war novel
Canadian
Second World War
Colin McDougall
Governor General's Award for English-language fiction
McGill University
Montreal
Timothy Findley
The Wars
Hugh MacLennan
Barometer Rising
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry
Italian Campaign
miles gloriosus
invade
Sicily
Italian Army
deserters
Geneva Convention
ethics
metaphor
Ortona
Hitler Line
Monte Cassino

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