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Dieppe: Canada's Darkest Day of World War II
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“It was a lot of murder coming down on us.” remembers Fred Engelbrecht, one of the Canadian soldiers chosen for a commando raid on the port of Dieppe on August 19, 1942.
As they clambered ashore on the pebbled beaches that morning, gunfire rained down on them. Almost one thousand Canadians were killed, 586 were wounded and 1,946 were marched off as prisoners. For 2 ½ years, the Dieppe survivors were kept in prison camp. And for more than one year of that time their hands were shackled — on Hitler’s express orders.
Praise
“…can be described quite simply as superb. It is superb in the way it sets out the context for the raid on Dieppe…Superb, too, in the way Brewster, using archival photographs, first-person accounts from surviving combatants or memoirs, and the connective tissue of his beautifully crafted text to tell a story that is equal parts horror and valour.” –Globe & Mail.
• Nominated for the 2010 Silver Birch Award
•Information Book Award Honour Book, 2011.
For a podcast interview with Hugh Brewster about DIEPPE go to http://www.justonemorebook.com/
As they clambered ashore on the pebbled beaches that morning, gunfire rained down on them. Almost one thousand Canadians were killed, 586 were wounded and 1,946 were marched off as prisoners. For 2 ½ years, the Dieppe survivors were kept in prison camp. And for more than one year of that time their hands were shackled — on Hitler’s express orders.
Praise
“…can be described quite simply as superb. It is superb in the way it sets out the context for the raid on Dieppe…Superb, too, in the way Brewster, using archival photographs, first-person accounts from surviving combatants or memoirs, and the connective tissue of his beautifully crafted text to tell a story that is equal parts horror and valour.” –Globe & Mail.
• Nominated for the 2010 Silver Birch Award
•Information Book Award Honour Book, 2011.
For a podcast interview with Hugh Brewster about DIEPPE go to http://www.justonemorebook.com/
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Book Details
Reading Level: 8-up Format: 10 ½’ x 9” (254.5 x 228.6 mm); 48 pages Published: August 2009 by Scholastic Canada Also available in French: Dieppe: La journée la plus sombre de la deuxieme Guerre Mondiale |
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