Inside Camp - X TM
Reviews
..................................................................................Dear Mr. Hodgson,
I just completed your book last night. I bought it and several softcover copies last year but did not begin reading it until recently.
I would like to thank you for the work you put into this fascinating work. Clearly what you encountered in the way of counter-intention in the beginning must have made your work even more interesting for yourself and your fellow researchers.
Some of the anecdotes in the book are mesmerising. I especially liked the one towards the end of the book concerning your father's delivery of those top secret documents to the UK in 1979!
The young men who served at Camp X were courageous and dedicated in the extreme as were the instructors and military commanders. I like the poem very much at the end by your friend Eric Curwain.
I could go on for pages about how much I enjoyed reading about Mac and the rest. Thanks for bringing these people to life.
I appreciate everything you did in the course of putting together this record of Camp X.
Sincerely, EBOLGER..................................................................................
"I met you on Tuesday this week at a book signing in the Five points Mall. I have been interested in Camp X for
some time. When speaking to you in the mall I commented that I had tried to read the autobiography of Sir William Stephenson and been completely put off (read: bored). I wanted you to know I finished your book in less than a day. That in itself is a testament to it's ability to keep me spellbound (on Christmas Day no less).
"Inside Camp X was exactly as I hoped it would be - exciting, interesting and very readable. It has given me
some of the answers to the questions I had as a little girl while riding the school bus past the P.O.W . camp in
Bowmanville. It seems I have always had a longing to have those questions answered. I can hardly wait to get
to the others you have written. As a homeschooling mother I have hopes of teaching these things to my children and you have given such an easy sourcebook from which to do it. Thankyou for your dedication to the history of our country and the unsung heroes of Camp X."Anita Broenink
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"I have read your book 'Inside Camp X' now from cover to cover, and thought it was brilliant! It was almost like entering a time warp and being there in person. You have managed to convey to the reader, all the mixed emotions of day to day life in a most unusual camp. From the comical to the sad, and from the cavalier to the deep they are all in there, giving each character a life of his/her own. An excellent read!"
Bill Collier
MILTON KEYNES, England
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"I am presently reading Inside Camp X and am enjoying it thoroughly. I especially enjoy Mr Hodgson's style of writing as he makes it just so
realistic and compelling."Terry Mavin
................................................" I have to say, the best part of the entire book was the addition at the end describing the happening surrounding your research in Camp X. Hearing about those whom you met, those whom contacted you and all the obstacles in your way, made the book. It really increased the "secret spy" element and made it all the more real."
Debora - Toronto, Ontario
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" I've just finished reading a very remarkable book by Lynn-Philip Hodgson entitled Inside-Camp X. Mr. Hodgson has presented what must be considered a shining moment in Canadian history, and one that should be regarded as a source of national pride by
everyone claiming this country of Canada as their home."John H. Cullen
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"It's just so professional and well done overall. A landmark documentary. No one else can do the topic any greater justice now. And so well documented, graphically. Outstanding achievement!"
Alan Longfield - President, Camp X Historical Society
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"Are you looking for a great spy book to sink your teeth into? Something with intrigue, excitement, danger and Lake Ontario?
"Lynn-Philip Hodgson offers here an amazing book that reads like fiction but is actually reporting the truth. During the dark years of World War 2, a top secret training ground for secret agents is assembling a small but effective army to infiltrate and sabotage Hitler`s forces.
"Inside Camp X is a fantastic work of history that will have you on the edge of your seat."
Chapters.ca
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New and Noted
" Hodgson now offers an entertaining oral history"
The Toronto Globe and Mail - September 25, 1999
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" Hodgson has used hours of interviews to weave a fascinating tale of the people who swore to secrecy the best years of their lives."
Rik Davie - Staff writer, Durham Post
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" Lynn-Philip Hodgson with the launch of his new book, 'Inside - Camp X' has shone a light on the colourful wartime activities that took place in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax and Bowmanville. Filled with fascinating stories about North America's first spy training school"
Jane McDonald - Staff Writer - Oshawa This Week
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" It's a very well researched book. The book gives one of the best insights one can get into Camp X since it was supposed to be so secret!"
Brian Winter - Archivist - Town of Whitby
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" Excellent biography in picture and word of the spy Camp"X" This intriguing book unveils the unique training centre, a spy school, established during the second world war near Oshawa, Ontario Canada by the world greatest spy master, Sir William Stephenson, the man called "INTREPID". Lynn-Philip Hodgson's
book 'Inside-Camp X" depicts in narrative and historical photographs the intriguing story of the men and women who were trained at this camp to be spies and saboteurs. Once they graduated their new job was unlike any we would aspire to.
These new graduates were transported from Canada and dropped behind enemy lines. For the first time, we, the readers are taken into this world of espionage training, introduced to many of the silent heroes who committed themselves to the most dangerous of military tasks during the war, to parachute behind enemy lines, to disrupt the German war machine, to organize the resistance underground forces, and in many cases they lost their lives to achieve their goals. This book is their legacy to all of us who benefited from their unswerving dedication and commitment to end the Second World War.
They are the graduates of the most unique training school the world has ever know, they are the men and women from 'Inside - Camp X'."Marcel H Clément (mclement@gapc.com) from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada , November 9, 1999
.....................................Ron Williams from Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada , November 6, 1999
"An interesting look at how spies trained for their mission.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It's filled with interesting information on how a spy school was set up, as well as training and the lighter side of life inside the camp. My only complaint is that I enjoyed it so much, that I wish it was longer. Well worth the price..."..................................................................................
"I just finished reading your book on Camp X---well done! It was a volume that I could scarcely put down, once I started it...
Many thanks for an excellent read, & for affording me the opportunity of "sharing" my Camp X experiences (such as they were!)
with you..."Kindest regards,
E.P. "Eddy" Swynar (VE3CUI - VE3XZ)
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" I have finished the book and must say that it was one of the most interesting and exciting books I have read.
I have read some books by Andy McNabb on his operations within the SAS and found them very interesting, but Inside Camp X made me feel personally connected"
Regards
Greg A. Haire
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" The true lover of history can understand the maddening frustration of knowing something compelling existed once so very close nearby, but with the passage of time is now so far, far away, never to be touched or seen again. So it is with this saga of the mysterious Camp X.
The author ably goes beyond the mere reference to '...a man called Intrepid', and adds flesh and bones, and breaths life into
the ghosts of a secret establishment that is credited with shortening the war in Europe by some six months. To anyone even remotely interested in the secret machinations of warfare, this is must reading. Purveyors of agent 007 need look no further than this compelling book to see the real stuff of "...quiet warfare"---how it was developed, how it was trained, and how it was executed, in all its unheralded successes, and equally muted failures..."
Reviewer: Eward Peter Swynar from Ontario, CANADA
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"On the subject of books, permit me to suggest a newly released title that will make great reading for you or for those Canadian history buffs on your gift
list.'Inside Camp X' , by Lynn-Philip Hodgson, recounts the fascinating story behind the top-secret training school for spies established in 1941 by William (A Man Called Intrepid" Stephenson, smack on the border between the then rural communities of Whitby and Oshawa.
Until now, only a small cairn and plaque have reminded us of the important role played by Camp X and its "students" in the successful outcome of the war. Now, thanks to Hodgson's detailed and colourful accounting, the story can be better understood and appreciated."
Mike Filey - The Way We Were
The Sunday Sun (Toronto)..................................................................................
"Extremely interesting and easy to read"
"I thoroughly enjoyed reading Inside Camp X. It's interesting to learn that so much went on locally to help the war effort. We usually just
hear about everything that happened overseas.
I found the book easy to read and very enjoyable. I would highly recommend it to everyone."Email: khodgs01@teraner.on.ca
Location: Oakville
Reviewer name: Karen............................................................
"At last, an account that's accurate and highly entertaining"
"This is the best there is. No other writer has delved so deeply beneath the nearly-impenetrable surface of this covert enterprise and surfaced so completely authentic a reconstruction of the planning and day-to-day events, told by people who were actually there. Camp X's historic contributions to the development of clandestine warfare were the seminal factors which lead to the OSS then, and the CIA, now! An impeccably researched,informative and readily accessible read!"
Email: alongfi@home.com
Location: Whitby
Reviewer name: Alan Longfield
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" 'Inside - Camp X', mystery, intrique, and secrets are all unfolded in the book in a way that will surely captivate even the most slothful of readers."
" The book demonstrates how even without a lot of primary documents available, a story can still be reconstructed accurately and made ready to inform generations yet to come. Little having been actually written on Camp X, the author has successfully prevented the story from being effectively truncated from our history forever."
Publishers, Family History News, Oshawa, Ontario
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"Hodgson carves out a consciousness beckoned by passion and pursued by tenacity. His success is an
inspiration. It also stands as testament of the act of the will to bring the past into the present, in order to educate the future."Karla Ingleton, Director
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The Camp X Monument
- 401 South on Thickson Road to Wentworth
Road - left (East) to Boundary Road - right
(south) about 600 ft. - top of hill on your right.
