Novelista, editor y escritor de no ficción histórica canadiense. La obra de Bacque atrajo la atención por su exploración de los crímenes de guerra aliados contra Alemania y el destino de los prisioneros de guerra alemanes, desafiando las narrativas históricas convencionales. Su escritura se caracteriza por un profundo compromiso con la verdad histórica y el descubrimiento de aspectos menos conocidos de los conflictos. A través de sus contribuciones literarias, ofrece a los lectores nuevas perspectivas y fomenta la reflexión sobre las complejidades morales de la guerra.
A controversial account of the treatment of millions of German prisoners of war held in US Army prison camps in Germany and France at the end of World War II. The author's extensive evidence is based partly on interviews with many ex-prisoners, guards and army officers.
For Germany, the end of World War II occurred officially on 8th May 1945; but the end of suffering did not. Using recently released documents from the USA and detailed research in the Moscow archives, the author shows how millions of Germans died unnecessarily - from starvation, disease and forced homelessness. The Red Army in the east took revenge for the crimes of the Nazis, as did the French and Americans in the west. The governments responsible have never acknowledged any mass deaths. Bacque argues that the Allies came not as liberators and rescuers, but as judges and avengers.
This astonishing novel braids the stories of people on both sides of World War Two. At a house party beside Georgian Bay, on the eve of war, Victoria Treloar of London is attracted to poet Grani Giovanelli from Toronto. The next day, at a castle in Germany, Clara Dunsmuir of New Brunswick marries her fiance Peter von Matternich, thus barely escaping internment as an enemy alien. Throughout the war, Clara and her best friend Tatiana Miloslovsky secretly help Tati's husband Klaus to save refugees, then carry out the bomb attack on Hitler in 1944. Grant Giovanelli fights U-boats in the North Atlantic, his brother Jack parachutes on a commando mission into occupied France. Vivid battle scenes interlock with the love stories, while Hitler, Churchill, Stalin and Roosevet plot their separate wars that ruin the world.
Zacházení Sovětů s válečnými zajatci, které přežil pouze každý dvacátý internovaný, je dnes již známou skutečností. Naproti tomu se však zažívá představa, že v amerických a spojeneckých poválečných táborech byly podmínky snesitelné a v souladu s válečnými konvencemi. Desítky tisíc, na které se počet mrtvých této internace odhadoval, se dávají za vinu poválečnému chaosu a nemocem a většině historiků zpravidla nestojí ani za zmínku.