Canadian fiction, War storiesCanadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
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The word "itsuka" means "some day," and refers to the Japanese-Canadian fight for redress following their evacuation and internment by…
the government during World War II. Naomi recalls how her idyllic childhood in British Columbia was ended; and after the death of her gentle guardians, Naomi is persuaded to leave the prairies and move to Toronto with her activist Aunt Emily. Thrust into the redress movement, Naomi becomes involved in the political battle, and in a romance with fellow activist Cedric, an Anglican priest. Sequel to "Obasan" (DC03222). 1993, c1992.
Doug Tillman boards a troopship, the S.S. Leopoldville, in the early morning hours of Christmas Eve 1944, headed for the…
Battle of the Bulge. Dan Gibbons, a college football star selected for a now-cancelled officers program, preps for another day with an ambulance squad near Ste. Mere Eglise. Churning in the depths of the north Atlantic, sixteen-year old Willy Hillenbrand is an unlikely U-boat sailor. Hours later near the mouth of Cherbourg Harbor, a torpedo from Willy's submarine pierces the hull of Tillman's troopship, setting into motion a sequence of events that inexorably brings this trio together. Violence