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C'est quand les cons sont braves qu'ils commettent les pires bêtises. Voilà ce que dit en substance Brassens dans une…
de ses chansons posthumes, à laquelle Martin Petit emprunte son titre pour le récit de son parcours de quatorze années dans l'armée canadienne. Avec une verve extraordinaire et beaucoup d'aplomb, il nous fait revivre l'histoire et les émotions d'un fantassin qui a servi sur de nombreux théâtres d'opération, dans le golfe Persique, en ex-Yougoslavie et en Somalie. Il nous rend sensible l'évolution d'un garçon qui s'est engagé par goût de l'aventure et pour voir du pays, et qui ressort de chaque conflit un peu plus marqué par l'horreur de la guerre. Ayant aujourd'hui à vivre avec le syndrome de stress post-traumatique, Martin Petit est devenu farouchement pacifiste. S'il brise ici la loi du silence, c'est qu'il voudrait, par son témoignage, éviter à d'autres jeunes gens de connaître les mêmes épreuves que lui. -- 4e de couv.By Donald E Graves, J. Mackay Hitsman. 1999
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.By Mellissa Fung. 2011
October, 2008. Mellissa Fung, a long-time reporter for CBC’s The National, was leaving a refugee camp outside of Kabul when…
she was grabbed by armed men claiming to be Taliban, stabbed, stuffed into the back of a car and driven off into the desert. When the group finally reached a village in the middle of nowhere, her kidnappers pushed her towards a hole in the ground. For twenty-eight days, Mellissa Fung lived in that hole, which was barely big enough to stand up or lie down in, nursing her injuries, praying, writing in her notebook and, as a veteran journalist, interrogating her own captors. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. Bestseller. 2011.By Farley Mowat. 1975
The barbarity and futility of war transformed a swaggering, self-confident junior officer into a seasoned, cynical veteran as his regiment…
was decimated in Sicily and struggled to survive the carnage of the 1943 Italian campaign. Strong language and descriptions of violence. Canada Reads 2012. 2003, c1975.More than 250,000 courageous men and women were enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II. These…
Canadians fought valiantly in every major air operation from the Battle of Britain to the bombing of Germany. Thousands lost their lives. Those who survived to tell their stories were forever changed. Here are some of their incredible stories. 2003.During World War II, some of the most treacherous jobs were those performed by men and women located deep within…
enemy territory. Always in danger of being exposed and subjected to torture, imprisonment, and even death, their stories are chilling accounts of bravery and luck - and, in some cases, what happens when the luck runs out. Some descriptions of violence. 2003.By Norman Leach. 2004
The history of Canada is filled with charismatic and talented military leaders. Each of the men featured in this collection…
was wildly successful in business and used his private wealth to provide Canada with a military unit at its times of greatest need. Today these respected units continue to serve Canada and Canadians. Includes biographies of Lord Strathcona, Henry Pellatt, and Hamilton Gault. Some descriptions of violence. 2004.By Laura Hillenbrand. 2010
Details the life of Louis Zamperini (b. 1917), an Olympic runner and World War II bombardier, who survived a plane…
crash and forty-seven days adrift at sea only to become a POW in Japan. Relates Louis's later religious awakening under Billy Graham's ministry. Violence. Bestseller. 2010.By Hideko Tamura Snider. 1996
Hideko was ten years old when the atomic bomb devastated her home in Hiroshima. In this narrative, Hideko recalls her…
life before the bomb, the explosion itself, and the influence of that trauma upon her subsequent life in Japan and the United States. Her years in America have given her unusual insights into the relationship between Japanese and American cultures and the impact of Hiroshima on our lives. 1996.By Serge Marc Durflinger. 2010
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.By Jessica Dee Humphreys, Roméo A Dallaire. 2010
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.By Rod Mickleburgh, Rudyard Griffiths. 2005
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.By Roméo A Dallaire. 2016
Roméo Dallaire, traumatized by witnessing genocide on an imponderable scale in Rwanda, reflects on the nature of PTSD and the…
impact of that deep wound on his life since 1994, and on how he motivates himself and others to humanitarian work despite his constant struggle. Though he had been a leader in peace and in war at all levels up to deputy commander of the Canadian Army, his PTSD led to his medical dismissal from the Canadian Forces in April 2000, a blow that almost killed him. But he crawled out of the hole he fell into after he had to take off the uniform, and he has been inspiring people to give their all to multiple missions ever since, from ending genocide to eradicating the use of child soldiers to revolutionizing officer training so that our soldiers can better deal with the muddy reality of modern conflict zones, and to revolutionizing our thinking about the changing nature of conflict itself. Bestseller. 2016.By Beryl E Escott. 1989
In this fascinating book, the author traces with infectious enthusiasm the progress of women in the Royal Air Force of…
Britain throughout the last 70 years, and their relatively unknown story is brought to life with a generous spicing of comments and descriptions from the women themselves. 1989.By Joy Carroll, Suzanne Anfossi. 2006
Septembre 1759. Sur le champ de bataille des plaines d'Abraham gisent le général anglais James Wolfe et le général de…
l'armée française, Louis-Joseph, marquis de Montcalm, tous deux mortellement blessés. Ni l'un ni l'autre ne pouvaient se douter que l'issue de cette bataille déciderait du sort de tout un continent et façonnerait l'histoire du Canada et des États-Unis. Ces deux hommes nous sont présentés ici dans leur vie quotidienne, entourés de leur famille, de leurs maîtresses, de leurs amis et de leurs ennemis, et dévorés par leurs passions. 2006. Titre uniforme: Wolfe & Montcalm.By Iain Sproat. 1981
In 1980 the author was given access to the MI5 dossier on P.G. Wodehouse, compiled in 1944 and 1945. From…
these and various secret Government memoranda, plus private diaries, letters and tapes, he challenges the verdict on "Plum's" wartime activities. The Berlin broadcasts are included as Appendix 1. 1981.By Donald Davenport Engen. 1997
Memoir of a naval aviator over "twenty-five years of technological and flying development in the U.S. Navy from the 1940s…
into the 1960s." Traces the integration of jet aircraft into naval operations, describing how jets have transformed aviation warfare. c1997.By Neil R Hamilton. 2000
Hamilton, a long-time employee of the CNIB, recalls growing up in Saskatchewan and his time as a pilot and instructor…
in World War Two. After losing most of his sight in the war Hamilton returned to Canada to recuperate and to adjust to his visual impairment. Through his work with the CNIB he became an inspiration to several generations of blind and visually impaired Canadians.By Orestes Lorenzo. 1994
Orestes Lorenzo, a major in the Cuban air force, defected to the United States in 1992 in a MiG-23. In…
this translation of his memoirs, Lorenzo portrays his life leading up to the decision to defect. He then describes the horror of realizing that his wife and two sons would not be allowed to join him. After exhausting all other methods, Lorenzo flew back to Cuba and rescued his family from a highway in an old Cessna. c1994. Uniform title: Vuelo hacia el amanecer.By Jack M Nissen, A. W Cockerill. 1987
During the Second World War, the British needed a tool that would warn of bombing or U-boat attacks. This book…
tells the drama of the secret race to develop radar, told in the words of one of the key players. c1987.