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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.
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Unforgettable tales of heroism, bravery and escape - the remarkable true stories of Canadian soldiers and civilians lost behind enemy lines in the Second World War. Nathan M. Greenfield, author of the Governor General's Award finalist "The Damned," shares never-before-heard stories of these forgotten Canadians in thrilling and often heartbreaking detail in a book that everyone will remember.
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"The Damned" tells the largely unknown saga of Canada's first land battle of the Second World War fought in the hills and valleys of Hong Kong in December 1941, and the terrible years the survivors of the battle spent as slave labourers for the Empire of Japan. Nathan Greenfield is the author of "Baptism of Fire" and the widely praised "The Battle of the St. Lawrence".
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