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I took a break from the blog to work on other formats for the book. I'm happy to announce that Canadian Escapades is now available as an ebook! Denis at Fifobooks let me know that our 2-column format would work fine on most ereaders, and did some of the format conversion and testing. As thanks, the ebook is available there exclusively at launch. We'll add other outlets soon. I would guess that Canadian Escapades is the first bilingual ebook with side-by-side alignment by sentence. If anyone has links and/or screenshots for other dual-language ebooks, please send them along. Pricing:
If you're stopping by for the first time, please check out the details on our home page, use the nav bar above for a preview, and see what you think of our video trailers and posters. If you have questions, please contact us. William G. (Bill) Hillman runs a large military tributes site and is the Webmaster of the Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum and the related "Official Publication of the RCAF Ex-Air Gunners": Short Bursts edited by John Moyles from March 1983 through December 2007. To tie 2 threads together, here are several contributions from Bob Henderson:
(*) An amusing note:
Bob Henderson also co-authored a book in 1993: German Prisoners of War in Canada and Their Artifacts, 1940-1948 Details from AirMuseum.ca:
There's a listing at Amazon but no copies available there or via AbeBooks. Chris Madsen is also the author of another book on the period: The Royal Navy and German Naval Disarmament 1942-1947. Robert J. (Bob) Henderson turned his collection of artifacts into the "Homefront Archives & Museum". AirMuseum.ca has some background:
Follow the link to read more. Bob has graciously sent me some additional material on one of Klaus Conrad's escapes, which I will post to the blog at some point. Bob's contact info:
Homefront Archives & Museum
6015-5th Ave. Regina, SK S4T 6V4 Canada (306) 543-5822 homefront@sasktel.net The "Wainwright District" site includes "The Camp Wainwright Story" with several additional pages of information about the POW camp: January 1945 to June 1946 - by Marsha Scribner; Pages 37-44 excerpted from her book Transitions. We Meet Again - by Erika Foley, with details on a visit by former POW Hansgeorg Mertsch. Among other tidbits:
POW Collector Visits Wainwright covers a visit by collector Robert (Bob) Henderson and his brother Brett, with Captain Kevin Winfield of the Wainwright base, and then former guard Leo Hamson and former POW Siegfried Osterwoldt. The Enemy Within discusses the documentary by Eva Colmers. Buffalo National Park News Stories features clips from 1909-1921. And of course: Recollections of a Guard Officer at POW Camp 135 by Leo Hamson, which we featured earlier. |