I Am Canada: Behind Enemy Lines

I Am Canada: Behind Enemy Lines
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Publisher : Scholastic Canada
Total Pages : 155
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ISBN-10 : 9781443119252
ISBN-13 : 1443119253
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Book Synopsis I Am Canada: Behind Enemy Lines by : Carol Matas

Download or read book I Am Canada: Behind Enemy Lines written by Carol Matas and published by Scholastic Canada. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young WWII gunner from the Prairies sees the horrors of war firsthand when he is captured by the Gestapo. Eighteen-year-old Sam Frederiksen has come a long way from the Prairies. Trained to be a gunner in a Lancaster bomber during WWII, he is shot down over France. Battered and bruised, he does survive, and joins forces with the French Resistance... only to be betrayed by one of its members. He and other flyers from various Allied countries are rounded up by the Gestapo and held in Fresnes prison just outside of Paris. Treated as spies, rather than POWs, these men are beaten, some tortured — then sent to Buchenwald Concentration Camp in eastern Germany. It is here, in these wretched conditions, that Sam witnesses the darkest side of humanity — gas chambers, torture and starvation. Yet it is also here that he comes to understand the true resilience and unfathomable courage of the victims. Author Carol Matas has won numerous awards for her previous novels about the Holocaust. Behind Enemy Lines is partially based on a true incident from WWII, in which 168 Allied airmen were captured and sent to Buchenwald. Twenty-six of these men were Canadian.


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