The Reckoning: Canadian Prisoners of War in the Great War

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Following at the heels of his book The Forgotten comes a new book in regards to the lives of Canadian prisoners of war within the First World War.

Conditions in German POW camps were usually 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 that refused the work were beaten. Any soldiers thought to have engaged in sabotage were beaten and tortured, and a few were murdered.

Some POWs attempted escape, a couple of more than once, the usage of 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 the usage of magnetized razor blades as a compass.

In The Reckoning bestselling creator and Governor General’s Award–nominee Nathan M. Greenfield explores life and death within the camps, in addition to the attempts to run for freedom. These are the forgotten stories of our soldiers at war and within the camps, and of how they never gave up hope of making it out alive.

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