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Breaking the Silence: Untold Veterans' Stories from the Great War to Afghanistan
 
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Breaking the Silence: Untold Veterans' Stories from the Great War to Afghanistan (Hardcover)

by Ted Barris (Author)
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"Never talked about it." 

That's what most people say when they're asked if the veteran in the family ever shared wartime experiences.  Describing combat, imprisonment or lost comrades from the World Wars, the Korea War, or even Afghanistan is reserved for Remembrance Day or the Legion lounge.  Nobody was ever supposed to see them get emotional, show their vulnerability.  Nobody was ever to know the hell of their war.

About 25 years ago, Ted Barris began breaking through the silence.  Because of his unique interviewing skills, he found that veterans would talk to him, set the record straight and put a face on the service and sacrifice of men and women in uniform.  As a result of his work on 15 previous books, Barris has earned a reputation of trust among Canada's veterans.  Indeed, over the years, nearly 3,000 of them have shared their memories, all offering original material for his books.

Among other revelations in Breaking the Silence, veterans of the Great War reflect on an extraordinary first Armistice in 1918; decorated Second World War fighter pilots talk about their thirst for blood in the sky;  Canadian POWs explain how they survived Chinese attempts to brainwash them during the Korean War; and soldiers with the Afghanistan mission talk about the horrors of the "friendly fire" incident near Kandahar.

Breaking the Silence is a ground-breaking book that goes to the heart of veterans' war-time experiences.

About the Author

Ted Barris is an accomplished author, journalist and broadcaster. As well as hosting stints on CBC Radio and regular contributions to The Globe and Mail, the National Post, and various national magazines, he is a full-time professor of journalism at Centennial College in Toronto. Barris has authored fifteen non-fiction books, including the national bestsellers Victory at Vimy and Juno.

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