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Item Information       Table of Contents     More Content     More by this author     Boileau, John.     Subjects     Canada. Canadian Armed Forces -- History -- World War, 1939-1945.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Canadian.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Juvenile.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Canada -- Biography.     Child soldiers -- Canada -- History.     Child soldiers -- Canada -- Biography.     Airmen -- Canada -- Biography.     Sailors -- Canada -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Boileau, John.       by title:      Too young to die : C...       by call number:      940.53083 B679t     Search the Web     Boileau, John.     Canada. Canadian Armed Forces -- History -- World War, 1939-1945.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Canadian.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Juvenile.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Canada -- Biography.     Child soldiers -- Canada -- History.     Child soldiers -- Canada -- Biography.     Airmen -- Canada -- Biography.     Sailors -- Canada -- Biography.       MARC Display

Too young to die : Canada's boy soldiers, sailors and airmen in the Second World War / John Boileau and Dan Black ; foreword by General John de Chastelain. by Boileau, John. James Lorimer & Company, c2016. Call #: 940.53083 B679t Subjects Canada. Canadian Armed Forces -- History -- World War, 1939-1945.   World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Canadian.   World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Juvenile.   World War, 1939-1945 -- Canada -- Biography.   Child soldiers -- Canada -- History.   Child soldiers -- Canada -- Biography.   Airmen -- Canada -- Biography.   Sailors -- Canada -- Biography. ISBN:  9781459411722 (hc.) Description:  484 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary:  "The stories of some of the 30,000 underage youths - some as young as fourteen - who joined the Canadian Armed Forces in the Second World War. A companion book to Old Enough to Fight, about boy soldiers in the First World War. Like their predecessors a generation before, these boys managed to enlist despite their youth. Most went on to face action overseas in what would become the deadliest military conflict in human history. They enlisted for a myriad of personal reasons - ranging from the appeal of earning regular pay after the unemployment and poverty of the Depression to the desire to avenge the death of a brother or father killed overseas. Canada's boy soldiers, sailors and airmen saw themselves contributing to the war effort in a visible, meaningful way, even when that meant taking on very adult risks and dangers of combat. Among the individuals whose stories are told: Ken Ewing, at age sixteen taken prisoner at Hong Kong and then spent his teen years in a Japanese prisoner of war camp; Ralph Frayne, so determined to fight that he enlisted in the army, navy and Merchant Navy all before the age of seventeen; Robert Boulanger, at age eighteen the youngest Canadian to die on the Dieppe beaches. Meticulously researched and extensively illustrated with photographs, personal documents and specially commissioned maps, Too Young to Die provides a touching and fascinating perspective on the Canadian experience in the Second World War."--Provided by publisher. Other authors:  Black, Dan, 1957- Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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