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Canadians Behind Enemy Lines, 1939-1945 (out of print)

by (author) Roy MacLaren

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Jan 1981
Category
General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774801478
    Publish Date
    Mar 1981
    List Price
    $30.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774801850
    Publish Date
    Jan 1981
    List Price
    $27.95

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Out of print

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Description

 

During the Second World War, almost one hundred Canadians served the Allied forces by passing as locals in occupied countries. At the behest of two British secret services, these men made language and custom their costumes. They risked their lives assisting resistance groups in sabotage and ambush missions or in smuggling Allied airmen out of occupied territories. Quiet heroes of the war, these bold Canadians helped to make the brutal and unrelenting warfare of the underground a potent weapon in the Allied arsenal. This is a study of unstinting personal courage in the face of overwhelming odds.

 

About the author

Roy MacLaren was high commissioner for Canada in the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland from 1996 to 2000. He spent twelve years in the Canadian Foreign Service and served as parliamentary secretary for Energy, Mines, and Resources, minister of State (finance), minister of National Revenue, and minister of International Trade. His six previous books include Commissions High: Canada in London, 1870-1971.

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