Behind enemy lines : World War II / by Carol Matas.

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Matas, Carol, 1949-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: I am Canada | I am CanadaPublication details: Toronto : Scholastic Canada, c2012.Description: 200 p. : ill., photo. , map : 18 cmISBN:

9780545990660 (hc.)

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Summary: "A young WWII gunner from the Prairies sees the horrors of war firsthand when he is captured by the Gestapo. Eighteen-year-old Sam Frederiksen has come a long way from the Prairies. Trained to be a gunner in a Lancaster bomber during WWII, he is shot down over France. Battered and bruised, he does survive, and joins forces with the French Resistance... only to be betrayed by one of its members. He and other flyers from various Allied countries are rounded up by the Gestapo and held in Fresnes prison just outside of Paris. Treated as spies, rather than POWs, these men are beaten, some tortured - then sent to Buchenwald Concentration Camp in eastern Germany. It is here, in these wretched conditions, that Sam witnesses the darkest side of humanity - gas chambers, torture and starvation. Yet it is also here that he comes to understand the true resilience and unfathomable courage of the victims."--From publisher.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Pathways	FIC IAM MAT (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Checked out	06/09/2025	I0000000019562
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"Sam Frederiksen Nazi-Occupied Europe, 1944."-- Cover.

"A young WWII gunner from the Prairies sees the horrors of war firsthand when he is captured by the Gestapo. Eighteen-year-old Sam Frederiksen has come a long way from the Prairies. Trained to be a gunner in a Lancaster bomber during WWII, he is shot down over France. Battered and bruised, he does survive, and joins forces with the French Resistance... only to be betrayed by one of its members. He and other flyers from various Allied countries are rounded up by the Gestapo and held in Fresnes prison just outside of Paris. Treated as spies, rather than POWs, these men are beaten, some tortured - then sent to Buchenwald Concentration Camp in eastern Germany. It is here, in these wretched conditions, that Sam witnesses the darkest side of humanity - gas chambers, torture and starvation. Yet it is also here that he comes to understand the true resilience and unfathomable courage of the victims."--From publisher.

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