John Boileau: 3 books
Old Enough to Fight
Canada's Boy Soldiers in the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Between 15,000 and 20,000 underage youths, some as young as ten, signed up to fight in Canada's armed forces in the First World War. They served in the trenches alongside their elders, and fought in all the major battles: Ypres, the Somme, Passchendaele, Vimy Ridge, and the rest. Many were injured...
Too Young to Die
Canada's Boy Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen in the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
John Boileau and Dan Black tell the stories of some of the 30,000 underage youths -- some as young as fourteen -- who joined the Canadian Armed Forces in the Second World War. This is the companion volume to the authors' popular 2013 book Old Enough to Fight about boy soldiers in the First World...
by John Boileau
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
In 1899 a thousand Canadian soldiers went to war--in South Africa. They were fighting white farmers who defied the mighty British empire by setting up their own, independent state. This South African or Boer War of 1899-1902 marked the first time Canadian troops went abroad to fight alongside Britain....