Conduct Unbecoming: The Story of the Murder of Canadian Prisoners of War in Normandy

'This was a story that needed to be told, and we should be glad that Howard Margolian has told it with such intelligence and feeling.'

Alex Good, Kitchener-Waterloo Record

"[This] book is clear, documented, and though very sad is neither mawkish nor vengeful.'

Douglas Fisher, The Ottawa Sun

"Conduct Unbecoming should make every Canadian seethe with rage. Margolian pulls together ... all the pathos, treachery, outrage, villainy and terror that resulted in the needless and illegal deaths of those 156 men. [It] is one of the best researched books I have read.'

Gary Hebbard, The Sunday Telegram

"This is well written and well researched but more importantly it forces us to think about the consequences of war.'

Marilynn Gordon, Kanata Kourier-Standard

"Author Margolian lays out the shame and horror of the way these young men went to their deaths in stark detail and with meticulous documentation. If that makes the reader's blood run cold, the shameful way the Canadian government abandoned them and their memory after the war will surely make it boil.'

Ron Riter, Vancouver Sun

"The plethora of war books and biographies published in the 1990s about Canadians in uniform during the century's two world wars has not produced a more moving and chilling story of cruelty than that told in Conduct Unbecoming. Even this book's all-encompassing 75 pages of notes adds to its authenticity. At the same time, the book's easy style, marked both by the author's emotional engagement and his expertise ... unravels a slow and stark story that details one of the most brutal and heart-rending experiences of our army during the Second World War.'

John D. Harbron, The Globe and Mail