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Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Canadian non-fiction, European history, Police and military, War
Human-narrated audio, Automated braille
In 1993, Canadian peacekeepers in Croatia were plunged into the most significant fighting Canada had seen since the Korean War.…
In September 1993, in a tiny corner of Croatia known as Medak Pocket, a unit of Canadian peacekeepers planted themselves between besieged Serbs and the advancing Croat army, driving them from the area under United Nations protection. The soldiers should have returned home as heroes, but instead, they arrived under a cloud of suspicion and silence. Descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2004.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Police and military, Politics and government
Human-narrated audio, Automated braille
Hart, a former senator and presidential candidate, fears that containment of communism has been supplanted by a blatant strategy of…
empire as the basis of American foreign policy. He rejects what he regards as the unilateral efforts by the current administration to promote geopolitical interests. As an alternative, Hart proposes a foreign policy designed to advance the "fourth power" - that is, the power of core American values, including representative government and individual liberty. 2004.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Canadian non-fiction, Police and military, War, World War II
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille
Fall, 1941. Almost 2,000 members of the Royal Rifles and Winnipeg Grenadiers were sent to bolster the British garrison at…
Hong Kong, but in the seventeen day battle for the colony following the attack on December 8, the Canadians suffered grievous losses. The second part of their story describes how the Canadians survived the horrendous conditions of Japanese POW camps. Some descriptions of sex, explicit descriptions of violence and strong language. 2010.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Canadian non-fiction, Police and military, Politics and government, Canadian politics and government, War
Human-narrated audio, Automated braille
Hertig asserts that both the American and Canadian governments are intentionally misleading their citizens about the Pentagon's unprecedented plans to…
weaponize space, about the new Russian and Chinese nuclear missile build-ups, and about the destruction of important, long-standing arms control agreements. Other topics covered are why the so-called U.S. missile "defence" system is really about establishing a U.S. first-strike-from-space capability, why both Paul Martin and Stephen Harper want to join in George W. Bush's program, and how all these factors may be leading to a rapidly increasing danger of a nuclear apocalypse. 2004.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), Police and military, Indigenous peoples, Indigenous peoples in Canada
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille
February 28, 2006. A handful of protesters from the nearby Six Nations reserve walked onto Douglas Creek Estates, then a…
residential subdivision under construction, and blocked workers from entering. The occupiers, now in their fifth year, have been destructive, threatening, and violent, harassing the residents who live nearby and doing everything under the noses of the Ontario Provincial Police, who, often against their own best instincts, stood by and watched. Strong language and descriptions of violence. c2010.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Law and crime biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Police and military, True crime
Human-narrated audio, Automated braille
One week after his wife plunged to her death from a 17th-floor balcony, Patrick Kelly was vacationing in Hawaii with…
his lover. The author tells of how Kelly changed from an RCMP undercover drug agent to smuggler and suspected fraud artist. Kelly was eventually convicted of the murder of his wife. 1995.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Canadian non-fiction, Police and military, War
Human-narrated audio, Automated braille
The history and nature of war shows that it has remained unchanged as an act of mass violence, applied against…
an enemy so that he will do what you want. But the collapse of the Iron Curtain has forced a re-examination: can we move beyond it through open access to the channels of mass communication? And if terrorism is a red herring designed to preserve the military status quo, are our traditional military structures still relevant? Descriptions of violence. Some strong language. 2004, c1985.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
War and military biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian history, United States history, Police and military, War
Human-narrated audio, Automated braille
An account of the causes of the war of 1812 and of the campaigns and battles that raged on land…
and water, from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. Hitsman describes the life and role of the soldiers - both the regulars and the militia - and the difficulties of waging war in largely trackless territory, where rivers and lakes were the main means of transport. Some descriptions of violence. 1999.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
War and military biography, Biography of blind or visually impaired persons, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Blindness and visual impairment, Police and military
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille
A history of Canada's war-blinded veterans and of the organization they founded in 1922, the Sir Arthur Pearson Association of…
War Blinded. Durflinger details the veterans' process of civil re-establishment, physical and psychological rehabilitation, and social and personal coping, and describes their public advocacy for government pension entitlements, job retraining, and other social programs. Captures the spirit of perseverance that permeated the veterans' community, and highlights the impact made by the war blinded as advocates for all Canadian veterans and for all blind citizens. 2010.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted)
Adventure and exploration, Canadian non-fiction, Police and military, War, World War II
Automated braille
An account of the destruction of the feared but short-lived German WWII warship. The authors examine recently opened diplomatic files…
from England and America that provide new data concerning the supposedly neutral America's involvement in the hunt for the Bismarck. Also included are concise biographies of the major officers from both sides, brief histories of the major naval vessels involved, and an analysis of the crucial command decisions that sealed the Bismarck's fate. 2001.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
War and military biography, Canadian non-fiction, History, Police and military, Politics and government, War
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille
In conflicts around the world, there is an increasingly popular weapon system that requires negligible technology, is simple to sustain,…
has unlimited versatility and incredible capacity for both loyalty and barbarism - children. Believing that no one should tolerate a child being used in this fashion, Dallaire has made it his mission to end the use of child soldiers. He provides an introduction to the phenomenon, as well as solutions to eradicate it. Explicit descriptions of violence. c2010.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted)
War and military biography, Canadian non-fiction, Police and military, War, World War II
Automated braille
Twenty Canadian Second World War veterans candidly describe their experiences, including the sinking of the Bismarck and landing on the…
beaches of Normandy. Describes the search of a Jewish nurse for survivors of the Holocaust and provides tales of shot-down airmen on the run in occupied Europe. Some strong language. 2005.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted)
Adventure and exploration, Police and military, Archaeology, War, World War II
Automated braille
February 1945. The war is almost over and Britain and America rule the waves, but sixty young Nazi soldiers still…
choose to undertake a mission in U-869 - to reach and bomb the coast of America. Several weeks later the boat barely has enough fuel to make it home and radio links with Germany are broken. The commander, Neuerberg, must make a tough decision: to carry on to America and risk death in the pursuit of glory, or to admit defeat and return home. Driven by pride, patriotism and determination, he decides to risk it. In 1991, a group of deep-sea divers hear about the wreck of a U-boat 260 feet beneath the sea. There are virtually no records of the Nazi submarine, and an on-location investigation is extremely dangerous. But twelve divers decide to take the risk. Over the next six years they eventually piece together an incredible story. 2004.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted)
General non-fiction, Police and military
Automated braille
From inauspicious beginnings to its present status as a respected metropolitan force, Douglas Porch describes the French Foreign Legion's battles…
all over the world. He looks beyond the myths that surround the Legion and analyzes its outstanding performance throughout history. He also discusses its special problems in recruitment, discipline and morale. 1991.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY Audio (CD), DAISY Audio (Direct to Player), DAISY Audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip)
Police and military, True crime
Synthetic audio, Human-transcribed braille
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER A shocking exposé of the deadliest killing spree in Canadian history, and how police tragically failed its…
victims and survivors.As news broke of a killer rampaging across the tiny community of Portapique, Nova Scotia, late on April 18, 2020, details were oddly hard to come by. Who was the killer? Why was he not apprehended? What were police doing? How many were dead? And why was the gunman still on the loose the next morning and killing again? The RCMP was largely silent then, and continued to obscure the actions of denturist Gabriel Wortman after an officer shot and killed him at a gas station during a chance encounter. Though retired as an investigative journalist and author, Paul Palango spent much of his career reporting on Canada’s troubled national police force. Watching the RCMP stumble through the Portapique massacre, only a few hours from his Nova Scotia home, Palango knew the story behind the headlines was more complicated and damning than anyone was willing to admit. With the COVID-19 lockdown sealing off the Maritimes, no journalist in the province knew the RCMP better than Palango did. Within a month, he was back in print and on the radio, peeling away the layers of this murderous episode as only he could, and unearthing the collision of failure and malfeasance that cost a quiet community 22 innocent lives.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted)
War, Biography, Police and military
Human-transcribed braille
Stories of combat and heroism which recall incidents of gallantry, valor, and bravery in the face of death as displayed…
by members of the United States Armed Forces at war in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Among the incidents recalled: Five Kentucky National Guardsmen who, although outnumbered ten to one, routed their foe; the Special Forces defeat of the Taliban in the winter of 2001; and the story of the young Marine who gave his life to protect his buddies from a grenade. Foreword by General Tommy Franks and afterward by Senator John McCain. Violence and strong language
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted)
United States history, Police and military, War, Politics and government, Social issues
Human-transcribed braille
Chronicles the political and social history of the United States in the aftermath of World War I through the Great…
Depression and World War II. Highlights the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the implementation of his New Deal domestic agenda. For junior and senior high and older readers. 2013
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted)
History, United States history, War, Police and military, Historical biography
Human-transcribed braille
In March 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson sent troops into Vietnam to fight in a conflict that would last seventeen…
years. The author explores the Vietnam War from many different perspectives, including American soldiers, a nurse, and a Vietnamese refugee. Some violence. For senior high and older readers. 2018
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Travel and geography, Adventure and exploration, War, Biography, Police and military
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille
An account of Lieutenant Commander George W. De Long's expedition to reach the North Pole with thirty-two men aboard the…
U. S. S. Jeannette. Believing the North Pole to be home to warm tropical waters, the crew's adventure becomes a tale of survival after encountering harsh polar conditions. For grades 5-8. 2017
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Philosophy, History, Politics and government, War, Police and military
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille
Historian's analysis of what defines a war as "civil." Discusses how the identity of those fighting plays a role and…
how calling a conflict a civil war can affect whether outside powers choose to involve themselves and the very outcome of events. Examines specific conflicts, such as the American Revolutionary War. 2017