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The reckoning : Canadian prisoners of war in the Great War / Nathan M. Greenfield.

by Greenfield, Nathan M., 1958-

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HarperCollins Publishers, [2016].

940.47243 G812r

World War, 1914-1918 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.

Prisoners of war -- Canada.

Prisoners of war -- Germany.

Canada -- Armed Forces -- History -- World War, 1914-1918.

9781443432627 (hc.)

Alternate title:

Valour Road : Canadian prisoners of war in the Great War.

x, 374 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cm

Prepublication title: Valour Road.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"For 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 basket. 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. 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. Nathan Greenfield is the the author of The Damned, The Battle of the St. Lawrence and The Forgotten. He lives in Ottawa."--Provided by publisher.

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