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Behind Enemy Lines
Behind Enemy Lines: World War II | Carol Matas
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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. Author Carol Matas has won numerous awards for her previous novels about the Holocaust. Behind Enemy Lines is partially based on a true incident from WWII, in which 168 Allied airmen were captured and sent to Buchenwald. Twenty-six of these men were Canadian.
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Genre: Military, History
Date Started: September 2019
Date Completed: October 23, 2019
How did you choose this book: Based off historical events and series.
Write a brief summary of the novel; who was the protagonist; what was his/her problem and how was the problem resolved?
Protagonist: Sam Fredriksen
Problem: To survive the harsh conditions he and prisoners underwent in Germany.
Problem resolved: Surviving through pure confidence and integrity.

gab_the_drawer Continuation for summary: Sam Fredriksen joins war as an airman. During one of his missions he and his crew get shot down over France. In France he participates in multiple French Resistance movements against Germans. But after doing so he was lured and captured by the Germans and sent to a prison camp, where he and fellow P.O.Ws would spend the rest of the war. 5y
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Starting reading on Wednesday September, 2019 9:00AM.

Genre: Adventure, War, Non-fiction