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Zusatztext "History lies in the detail! and the accomplished Nathan Greenfield provides a rich! granular helping. A subject few of us have contemplated--the punishment suffered by Canadian POWs during the Great War--becomes an engrossing read as a result. This is a good book." Informationen zum 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. Klappentext 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! and those who refused the work were beaten. Soldiers thought to have engaged in sabotage were beaten and tortured! and some were murdered. Hundreds of POWs attempted escape! a few more than once! using ingenious and dangerous methods. One soldier attempted to escape by secreting himself in a wicker basket! while another dressed as a widow. Others—hearty frontiersmen—did escape! making their way out of Germany by hiding in forests and ditches and using magnetized razor blades as compasses. In preserving these stories of endurance! bravery and defiance! Greenfield adds another important chapter to Canada’s military history. Zusammenfassung Following on the heels of his book The Forgotten comes a new book about the lives of Canadian prisoners of war in the First World War. Conditions in German POW camps were generally vile! with soldiers having little to eat but thin soup and putrid meat. Canadian men were used as slave labourers in salt mines and coal mines! and those who refused the work were beaten. Any soldiers thought to have engaged in sabotage were beaten and tortured! and some were murdered. Some POWs attempted escape! a few more than once! using ingenious and dangerous methods. One soldier attempted to escape by secreting himself in a wicker bask. Others! who were hearty frontiersmen! did escape! making their way out of Germany by hiding in forests and ditches and using magnetized razor blades as a compass. In The Reckoning bestselling author and Governor General’s Award–nominee Nathan M. Greenfield explores life and death in the camps! as well as the 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. ...
