The Story of Canada at War and One Soldiers Fight to Survive

The Judas Cloak
By Walter Winward
Published 1989

December 1943: In a German POW camp a group of prisoners have gathered to execute one of their own, Sgt. Jack Lambert.

1947: In Calgary, Ben Lambert discovers that his war hero brother, Jack, my actually have been an informant for the Germans, known as the Cloak. Ben is determined to find the truth even if it means going to Occupied Germany.

The Story then follows Jack from the Depression where he enlists in the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry to deployment in England, Commando training in Scotland, his participation in the Raid on South Vaagso in December of 1941 and the ill fated Dieppe raid in August, 1942 where he becomes a POW. After Dieppe Jack lands in a Stalag near Frankfurt, it is there the Allied prisoners discover one of them has turned traitor...but which one?

Well written by an ex-member of the British Army, the Judas Cloak is an excellent book for anyone tired of your standard WW2 novel. Well a little flat at times Winward is to be commended as to how human Jack comes across as, and that he does not scimp on the sometimes brutal meathods of both sides of the war, particularly Jacks escape attempt and Gestapo torture chambers. All in all the Judas Cloak is highly recommended.

*** out of ****