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Too young to die : Canada's boy soldiers, sailors and airmen in the Second World War
- Title
- 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.
- Author
- Boileau, John
- Publication
- Toronto : James Lorimer & Company Ltd., 2017.
- ©2016
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | D768.15 .B654 2017 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 484 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Dan Black and John Boileau tell 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. This is the companion volume to the authors' popular 2013 book 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."--
- Subject
- Canada. Canadian Armed Forces > Biography
- Canada. Canadian Armed Forces
- 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, Canadian
- World War, 1939-1945 > Participation, Juvenile
- Child soldiers > Canada > Biography
- Airmen > Canada > Biography
- Sailors > Canada > Biography
- Airmen
- Child soldiers
- Military participation > Juvenile
- Sailors
- Canada
- Genre/Form
- Biography
- Personal Narrative
- Personal narratives.
- Biographies.
- Personal narratives – Canadian.
- Récits personnels.
- Note
- Companion volume to: Old enough to fight.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-474) and index.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Issued also in electronic format.
- ISBN
- 9781459411722
- 1459411722
- 9781459411739 (canceled/invalid)
- 1459411730 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2017394094
- OCLC
- ocn948828370
- 948828370
- SCSB-1883535
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library