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Devil at my heels: a heroic Olympian's astonishing story of survival as a Japanese POW in World War II
By David Rensin, Louis Zamperini. 2011
A youthful troublemaker, a world-class NCAA miler, a 1936 Olympian, a WWII bombardier: Louis Zamperini had a fuller life than…
most. But on May 27, 1943, it all changed when his B-24 crashed into the Pacific Ocean, leaving Louis and two other survivors drifting on a raft for forty-seven days and two thousand miles, waiting in vain to be rescued. When they finally reached land, they were captured by the Japanese. Louis spent the next two years as a prisoner of war--tortured and humiliated, routinely beaten, starved and forced into slave labour--while the Army Air Corps declared him dead and sent official condolences to his family. On his return home, memories of the war haunted him and nearly destroyed his marriage, until a spiritual rebirth transformed him. 2011.Tibor "Max" Eisen was born in Moldava, Czechoslovakia into an Orthodox Jewish family. In the spring of 1944, gendarmes forcibly…
removed Eisen and his family from their home. They were brought to a brickyard and eventually loaded onto crowded cattle cars bound for Auschwitz-Birkenau. Winner of Canada Reads 2019. Bestseller. 2016.Courage in the air: Canada's Military Heritage (Canada's military heritage. #1.)
By William Arthur Bishop. 1992
Backlines
By Bob Spall. 1996
Bob Spall is an accidental airman from North Vancouver who joined the RCAF in 1939 on impulse, but never made…
it out of Canada to fight in the war. This is the story of ordinary Canadians during the war years, a time that brought jobs, travel, and personal challenges. 1996.Blackouts to bright lights: Canadian war bride stories
By Barbara Ladouceur, Phyllis Spence. 1995
Thirty-six war brides recount their journeys from the blackouts of war-torn Britain to the bright lights of Canada. Through oral…
histories, they recall the declaration of war, the bombing raids, the new job opportunities for women, the excitement of meeting Canadian servicemen on leave, and speak of starting new lives in Canada. 1995.Black Sheep One: the life of Gregory "Pappy" Boyington
By Bruce Gamble. 2000
The biography of legendary warrior, lover, drinker and WWII hero Gregory Boyington. Blessed with inveterate luck, he lived a life…
that went beyond the most imaginative fiction. After being "encouraged" to leave the Marine corps, he went on to become a WWII hero as a nonconforming squadron leader. 2000.Brave men
By Ernie Pyle. 1944
Carved in stone: Holocaust years -- a boy's tale
By Manny Drukier. 1996
Drukier was forced by the Nazis to leave his native city of Lodz in Poland in 1939, at the age…
of eleven. In this book, prompted by his first visit back to Poland in fifty years, he describes what happened from that day until his emigration to North America. He tells of hiding, work in labour camps, and his day of liberation. He also tells of his friends and family and their love and will to survive. 1996.Brass buttons and silver horseshoes: stories from Canada's British war brides
By Linda Granfield. 2002
This book tells the story of Canada's war brides. 48,000 young women met and married Canadian servicemen in Europe during…
World War II. Nothing could have prepared them for their experience in this new land. Some regretted their hasty love affairs and others enjoyed more than 50 years of happy marriage. 2002.Che Guevara (Pocket biographies)
By Andrew Sinclair. 1998
This concise biography unravels Che's life, from his birth in 1928, the child of free-thinking radical Argentinian aristocrats, through his…
youthful membership of Accion Argentina, his training as a doctor, and action as a commander in the guerrilla war in Cuba with Fidel Castro, to his execution. 1998.Cochrane: Britannia's last sea-king
By Donald Serrell Thomas. 1978
Castles burning: a child's life in war
By Magda Denes. 1997
A woman's wry account of her childhood as a Jewish fugitive in Hungary during World War II. In 1939, her…
father abandoned his family for America, leaving them in poverty and peril. The author relates the harsh ordeal of wartime persecution and their eventual escape to Cuba. 1997.Captivity: 118 days in Iraq and the struggle for a world without war
By James Loney. 2011
Iraq, November 2005. James Loney and three other men, all members of Christian Peacemaker Teams, were taken hostage at gunpoint.…
The Swords of Righteousness Brigade released videos of the men, resulting in what is likely the most publicized kidnapping of the Iraq War. One man was murdered, the rest held 118 days before being rescued. 2011.Both my legs: the love song of Howard Lovell
By Wade Hemsworth. 1995
Howard "Babe" Lovell was a gunner in the Royal Canadian Field Artillery when he lost both of his legs in…
an artillery attack in Italy during World War II. This biography, written by his grandson, illustrates Babe's wartime experiences and the adjustments he was forced to make when he returned home to Canada. c1995.Bonds of wire: a memoir
By Kingsley Brown. 1989
In 1942, RCAF Bomber Pilot Kingsley Brown was shot down over Holland and began his 3-year incarceration in Stalag Luft…
3, the German P.O.W. camp from which the Great Escape was launched. 1989.Atlantic rendezvous
By William Murray. 1970
Ariel Sharon: a life
By Mitch Ginsburg, Nir Hefez, Gadi Bloom. 2006
As a soldier, Ariel Sharon showed great devotion to his men, but often acted like a bull in a china…
shop, taking dangerous gambles that often proved disastrous, and routinely ignoring the instructions of his superiors. He displayed a lust for power and a willingness to bend the truth in that pursuit. However, Sharon was a giant figure on the Israeli political and military scene, with an enormous and long-standing impact on its history. 2006. Uniform title: Roʻeh.Apache
By Ed Macy. 2008
Taking the reader right to the heart of the war in Afghanistan, 'Apache' is a story of courage, comradeship, technology…
and tragedy, from the cockpit of the most sophisticated fighting helicopter the world has ever known. 2008.Altimeter rising: my 50 years in the cockpit
By Allan MacNutt, Norman Avery. 2000
Recollections of life in the cockpit attest to McNutt's fascination with aviation. Ill-equipped when he joined the RCAF during WWII,…
he persevered among his better-educated colleagues, studied hard and finally conquered the fine art of flying. Determined to be the best flyer in the business, his tale is laced with exciting adventures and misadventures. 2000.Almost a lifetime
By John McMahon. 1995
John McMahon gives a personal account of the Second World War from Ireland through Holland, Germany, and Canada. Now living…
in British Columbia, MacMahon was born in Belfast in 1921. At the age of 19, he joined the Royal Air Force, but was shot down over occupied Holland on his first mission. Incarcerated in a POW camp in Germany, he tells of his struggle to survive behind barbed war, and his attempts after the war to find the people who helped him, his fellow POWs, and the pilot who shot his aircraft down. 1995.