Peter J Usher

Joey Jacobson's War

A Jewish Canadian Airman in the Second World War. Sprache: Englisch.
kartoniert , 414 Seiten
ISBN 1771123427
EAN 9781771123426
Veröffentlicht Januar 2018
Verlag/Hersteller Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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Beschreibung

The story of a Jewish Canadian navigator in Bomber Command at the beginning of its offensive against Germany in 1941, as told through his own letters and diaries. Joey Jacobson was a privileged Montrealer whose wartime experience transformed him into a hopeful idealist and a seasoned airman before he was killed in action.

Portrait

Peter J. Usher was born in Montreal in 1941. For many years he studied, wrote about, and advised on the environmental and social effects of resource development in Canada's North. Inspired by his cousin Joey Jacobson's letters and diaries, he began writing about the experience of Canadian airmen in the Second World War. He is married and lives near Clayton, Ontario.

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