Dieppe: Canada's darkest day of World War II
Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), War, World War II
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille
Summary
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.