"Well, d'you see, it was like the book says, but it wasn't like that, also."

Christie Logan – Margaret Laurence, The Diviners

And he tells the story to a young Morag Gunn—of living the war—bombs, trenches,

the stench of blood and gunpowder, the screams of injured and dying men. It was different in the books, the news reports, and the newsreels. In those, there was only bravery, soldiers grinning at the cameras, leaning back and rolling a cigarette, no mention of the bodies piling up, the bloated bellies of dead horses.

That's the crux of it. Memory and history. Which is truth?