Behind Enemy Lines will be launched this Thursday, 7:30 p.m., at McNally Robinson Booksellers.įor three years Matlock author Doreen Pendgracs has been working on what many would consider a dream project. Matas has written more than 40 novels for young readers, seven of them with Nodelman. The research was challenging, with some details difficult to pin down, but Matas says, “I had a lot of help from the veterans.” He joins forces with the French Resistance, only to be betrayed by one of its members and sent to Fresnes Prison, south of Paris. Partially based on fact, the novel is about an 18-year-old Prairie boy turned Lancaster gunner who is shot down over France. The result: Behind Enemy Lines: World War II, Sam Frederiksen, Nazi-Occupied Europe, 1944, part of Toronto-based Scholastic’s I Am Canada series. When her writing partner Perry Nodelman sent Winnipeg author Carol Matas a link to a true story about Second World War airmen who were imprisoned in a concentration camp as spies, she found her next novel. This article was published (4090 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current. Free Press 101: How we practise journalism.Behind Enemy Lines is partially based on a true incident from WWII, in which 168 Allied airmen were captured and sent to Buchenwald. Author Carol Matas has won numerous awards for her previous novels about the Holocaust. Yet it is also here that he comes to understand the true resilience and unfathomable courage of the victims. It is here, in these wretched conditions, that Sam witnesses the darkest side of humanity - gas chambers, torture and starvation. Treated as spies, rather than POWs, these men are beaten, some tortured - then sent to Buchenwald Concentration Camp in eastern Germany.
He and other flyers from various Allied countries are rounded up by the Gestapo and held in Fresnes prison just outside of Paris.
only to be betrayed by one of its members.
Battered and bruised, he does survive, and joins forces with the French Resistance. Trained to be a gunner in a Lancaster bomber during WWII, he is shot down over France. Eighteen-year-old Sam Frederiksen has come a long way from the Prairies. A young WWII gunner from the Prairies sees the horrors of war firsthand when he is captured by the Gestapo.
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