This is a collection of anecdotes about Canadian sailors, airmen and soldiers who were captured by the Germans in WW II. It looks at how they felt when they were captured and then how they were treated as POW's.

Sometimes the treatment would vary from man to man during the same incident. A prime example of this was the raid on Dieppe. Some wounded Canadians were immediately treated by German medical staff while others who were badly wounded were shot in the head by a German officer.

Greenfield also includes episodes of escapers and evaders whether they were successful in getting back home.

One Canadian airman (he was in the RAF) was shot down on September 9, 1939, a day before Canada declared war on Germany. Goering himself came to interrogate the flyer because he could not understand why a Canadian would wish to fight England's war.

The format used by the author is sometimes confusing as he tells one episode of an individual's experience and then in a later chapter or on the next page he continues the man's story forcing the reader to check the episode heading to see which individual he is writing about. The reason he used this method was he decided to organize the volume chronologically and thus must put each episode in the time period being covered in that chapter.

Greenfield reveals what I would think would be new information to many Canadians re the treatment of Canadian soldiers in German prison of war camps. This would be especially true of the winter marches in early 1945, the murder of Canadian spies such as Frank Pickersgill and the committing of Canadian military personnel to the concentration camp, Buchenwald, a major transgression of the Geneva Convention. ( )