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Too Young to Die - Canada'S Boy Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen in the Second World War (Hardcover)
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Too Young to Die - Canada'S Boy Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen in the Second World War (Hardcover)
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John Boileau and Dan Black 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. 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. Among the individuals whose stories are told: Ken Ewing,
at age sixteen taken prisoner at Hong Kong and then a teenager 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
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