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Originally posted by peter12+Oct 23 2004, 03:26 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (peter12 @ Oct 23 2004, 03:26 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Cowperson@Oct 23 2004, 09:25 AM
Not sure if anyone will be interested in this but ahead of Remembrance Day its always useful to reflect back on those who went overseas to fight for your freedom, this time a story of the nearly 100,000 Canadians who were fighting their way through Italy when Allies invaded France, thus earning the moniker "D-Day Dodgers."
http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpos...4d-e3e509c560a0
As a sidenote, if you want to read an often comical but also sobering anti-war book, pick up a copy of Farley Mowat's first person account of his soldiering in the Canadian infantry in the Italian campaign described in the attached story.
Mowat went off to war with an eagerness common at the time but which many of us might not comprehend. He left a shattered man.
The book is called: "And No Birds Sang."
Cowperson
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Apparently almost none of the book is true either. [/b][/quote]
I believe Mowat was accused of contrivances in "Never Cry Wolf," "People of the Deer" and "The Desperate People" detailing his alleged experiences in the Canadian Arctic.
There are no challeges I'm aware of regarding his wartime experiences and the book "And No Birds Sang." It would be hard to go too far astray with hundreds of witnesses in his battalion as well as military records and histories likely backing him up.
A summary of the allegations in the three books named:
http://www.canoe.ca/JamBooksFeatures/mowat_may5.html
Mowat's response:
http://www.canoe.ca/JamBooksFeatures/mowat_may6.html
A third party examination of the charges and aftermath.
http://www.salon.com/people/bc/1999/...at/index1.html
Cowperson