The Reckoning
Canadian Prisoners of War in the Great War
From the Governor General’s Award finalist for The Damned comes the riveting true story of Canadian POWs in the First World War.In The Reckoning, bestselling author Nathan M. Greenfield explores life and death in POW camps as well as prisoners’ attempts to run for freedom. These are the forgotten stories of our soldiers at war and in the camps, and of how they never gave up hope of making it out alive and rejoining their comrades in the trenches.Conditions in German POW camps were generally vile, with soldiers having little to eat other than thin soup and putrid meat. Canadian men were used as slave labourers in salt mines and coal mines, an…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4434-3263-4
- EAN: 9781443432634
- Produktnummer: 22260856
- Verlag: Harper Collins (US)
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 416 S.
- Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
Über den Autor
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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