Enders

<p>Colin Ruthven grew up in Vancouver's lively West End in the years during and following World War II.</p><p>He shares stories that are humorously light and others that are stirringly dark including what it was like growing up with a father who spent the war battling his own demons. His Aunt Helen who served as a dietician in the Royal Canadian Army would tell him how she nursed concentration camp survivors back to health after liberation.</p><p>The author deftly ties in stories highlighting his boyhood comradery with fellow enders with more serious moments from adolescence leading up to his dramatic departure from Canada at age nineteen.</p><p>Ruthven a dual citizen of Canada and the United States of America would go on to spend several decades in America serving as a Marine fighter pilot in the Vietnam War and retiring as a lieutenant colonel before enjoying a second career as an award-winning illustrator.</p>