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    The Forgotten: Canadian POWs, Escapers and Evaders In Europe, 1939-1945
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    The Forgotten: Canadian POWs, Escapers and Evaders In Europe, 1939-1945
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    The Forgotten: Canadian POWs, Escapers and Evaders In Europe, 1939-1945

    By Nathan M. Greenfield

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    Unforgettable tales of heroism, bravery and escape—the remarkable true stories of Canadian soldiers and civilians lost behind enemy lines during the Second World War.

    The Forgotten tells the story of more than 10,000 Canadian servicemen, merchant mariners and civilians for whom the war ended in surrender, capture, imprisonment or escape, as seen through the eyes of a group of men who struggled to survive in Hitler's Europe. Among them were Private Stan Darch, who had already survived the cauldron of Dieppe; Sergeant Edward Carter-Edwards, who endured the hell of Buchenwald; RCAF Sergeant Ian MacDonald, who was on the run before being betrayed to the Gestapo and spent six weeks in the notorious Fresnes Prison in Paris; as well as seventeen civilian priests and brothers who were captured at sea. To survive the horrid conditions in the stalags across Europe and the hunger marches through the freezing winter of 1944–45, these otherwise ordinary Canadians required extraordinary valour and commitment to the Allied cause--and to each other.

    Nathan M. Greenfield, author of the Governor General's Award finalist The Damned, shares the never-before-told stories of these forgotten Canadians in thrilling and often heartbreaking detail in a book that will haunt readers for a long time to come.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 22, 2013
    ISBN9781443404914
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    The Forgotten: Canadian POWs, Escapers and Evaders In Europe, 1939-1945
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    Nathan M. Greenfield

    NATHAN M. GREENFIELD, PhD, is the Canadian correspondent for Times Educational Supplement and is a contributor to Maclean’s, Canadian Geographic and TLS. He is the author of The Damned, which was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction; Baptism of Fire, which was a finalist for the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction; the widely praised The Battle of the St. Lawrence; The Forgotten; and The Reckoning. Greenfield lives in Ottawa.

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      This is a collection of anecdotes about Canadian sailors, airmen and soldiers who were captured by the Germans in WW II. It looks at how they felt when they were captured and then how they were treated as POW's. Sometimes the treatment would vary from man to man during the same incident. A prime example of this was the raid on Dieppe. Some wounded Canadians were immediately treated by German medical staff while others who were badly wounded were shot in the head by a German officer.Greenfield also includes episodes of escapers and evaders whether they were successful in getting back home.One Canadian airman (he was in the RAF) was shot down on September 9, 1939, a day before Canada declared war on Germany. Goering himself came to interrogate the flyer because he could not understand why a Canadian would wish to fight England's war.The format used by the author is sometimes confusing as he tells one episode of an individual's experience and then in a later chapter or on the next page he continues the man's story forcing the reader to check the episode heading to see which individual he is writing about. The reason he used this method was he decided to organize the volume chronologically and thus must put each episode in the time period being covered in that chapter.Greenfield reveals what I would think would be new information to many Canadians re the treatment of Canadian soldiers in German prison of war camps. This would be especially true of the winter marches in early 1945, the murder of Canadian spies such as Frank Pickersgill and the committing of Canadian military personnel to the concentration camp, Buchenwald, a major transgression of the Geneva Convention.