Dieppe: Canada's darkest day of World War II
Ouvrages documentaires canadiens, Auteurs canadiens (documentaires), Guerre, Seconde Guerre mondiale
Audio avec voix humaine, Braille avec transcription humaine
Résumé
On the night of August 19, 1942, a force of five thousand Canadians launched an attack on the Nazi-held French port of Dieppe. When it was over, the Allies were forced to retreat, nearly a thousand Canadian troops lay dead,… and almost two thousand were taken prisoner. For years, defenders of the raid claimed that the Allies learned valuable lessons from Dieppe that were put to use later in the war, but others believed that the Canadian soldiers had been used as cannon fodder. Includes sections about the evacuation and the POW experiences. Explicit descriptions of violence. Grades 3-6. 2009.