They Left the Back Door Open
eBook Details
| Title: | They Left the Back Door Open | ||||||
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| Published: | 1944 | ||||||
| Publisher: | The Ryerson Press | ||||||
| Tags: | Canadiana, Europe, history, military, non-fiction, war, World War II | ||||||
| Description: | A Chronicle of the Allied Campaign in Sicily and Italy. |
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| Pages | 146 |
Author Bio for Shapiro, Lionel
Lionel Shapiro (1908-1958) was a Canadian journalist and writer. Born in Montreal, Quebec, he attended McGill University. He became a journalist and worked for the Montreal Gazette. When World War II started he joined the army as a war correspondent. He participated in amphibious landings at Sicily, Salerno, and Juno Beach on the D-Day invasion. He wrote several novels mostly with war themes including “The Sixth of June” which won him the Governor General’s Award for English-language fiction in 1955. (Macmillan Dictionary of Canadian Biography)
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