My digressions aside, Sam is taken to a barn to stay and wait for help and to give a hand to the Resistance activities in the area while Bill is safe somewhere getting his leg fixed up. For you non-Canadians reading this, the Grey Cup is the Canadian Football League championship, and it’s a pretty effective spy-discovery tool because it doesn’t matter if it’s 1944 or 2017: nobody gives a shit about the Grey Cup. He ends up carrying Bill quite a good ways before they’re discovered by a French teenager (which by itself sounds awful), who brings them some food and shows them to a safe Resistance house not too far away.Įn route, Sam is stopped by an American who is convinced he’s a German spy and wants to shoot him, but he manages to convince the guy that no, he doesn’t know jack about the Yankees because he’s Canadian, but he will happily tell him all kinds of hockey nonsense, and seals the deal by telling him who won the Grey Cup the previous year.
Things are not going well for him when the book opens as his plane is in the process of being shot down somewhere over France, but Sam survives and manages to hook up with his navigator, Bill, who has a broken leg. (Or possibly it doesn’t bother normal people and it just bothers me, the reader reading these things for detail and comparing and contrasting them to other books in the same and sibling series.)Īnyway, Sam is our Canadian-born-of-Danish-extraction protagonist, who grew up in Manitoba with his doctor father, mother, and younger sister. Neither one is better, it’s just a little bit odd for me, the reader. The other thing that’s strange about this series is that some of them are more diary-style (numbered entries, text like “I don’t know what to write” or things like that) and some of them, like this one, are just straight first-person recounting that happen to have a date at the beginning of the chapter to orient the reader.
It does not go well to say the absolute least. Just terrible! Our fearless hero Sam has his plane shot down, and in his effort to get back to England he works with the French Resistance. I think the entire reason I had no idea what was coming was because the back cover blurb on this book is terrible. I don’t know where I expected this book to go but this was NOT it.īehind Enemy Lines: World War II, Sam Frederiksen, Nazi-Occupied Europe, 1944, Carol Matas, 2012.
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