Howard Margolian specializes in the history of the Second World War. From 1990 to 1997, he worked as an investigator for the Crimes against Humanity and War Crimes Section of the Department of Justice of Canada.
'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.'
*Kitchener-Waterloo Record*
"[This] book is clear, documented, and though very sad is neither
mawkish nor vengeful.'
*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.'
*The Sunday Telegram*
"This is well written and well researched but more importantly it
forces us to think about the consequences of war.'
*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.'
*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.'
*The Globe and Mail*
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