5/19/2023 0 Comments Behind enemy lines bookIt 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. Scholastic Canada Ltd | ISBN 9781443119252 Ebook 208 Pages | Ages 9 to 12 A young WWII gunner from the Prairies sees the horrors of war firsthand when he is captured by the Gestapo.Įighteen-year-old Sam Frederiksen has come a long way from the Prairies.
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