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How I Won the War for the Allies: One Sassy Canadian Soldier's Story
By Doris Gregory. 2015
Still sassy, Doris Gregory takes the reader back over seventy years to the time when she broke with tradition, first…
by publicly challenging the University of British Columbia's discrimination against women, and then by joining the Canadian Women's Army Corps. Her memoir allows us to travel with her across the Atlantic at the height of the U-boat infestation and to take refuge in underground shelters while bombs fall on London. Unlike most memoirs of the war that focus on battles, Gregory shows the everyday mundane activities of office life, working under some less-than-brilliant supervisors. Gregory transforms what could have been a dull soldier's life into one of small adventures: cycling along traffic-free roads through southern England, the midlands and Scottish lowlands, hopping on the ferry to Ulster, slipping into neutral, forbidden Eire, and looking into the gun barrel of an angry German sentry. Although at times the war weighs heavily upon her, the author's optimism,enthusiasm and sense of humour permeate this memoir, full of laughter and surprises.Searching for black Confederates: the Civil War's most persistent myth (Civil War America)
By Kevin M. Levin. 2019
My dearest Julia: the wartime letters of Ulysses S. Grant to his wife (Library of America)
By Ulysses S. Grant. 2018
A collection of letters from famed Civil War general Ulysses S. Grant to his wife, Julia Dent Grant. The letters…
range in time from their engagement in 1844 until Union victory in 1865 and provide insight into the general's experiences and mental state, especially during the Civil War. 2018God's wolf: the life of the most notorious of all crusaders, scourge of Saladin
By Jeffrey Lee. 2017
An account of the role of Reynald de Chatillon in the Crusades. Recounts his joining the Second Crusade and subsequent…
rise through the ranks. Discusses whether his historical reputation as a bloodthirsty maniac is valid. Some violence. 2016Sailor and fiddler: reflections of a 100-year-old author
By Herman Wouk. 2016
Pulitzer Prize winner and author of The Caine Mutiny (DB 31442) and other works reflects on his life. Discusses the…
books that have influenced him, his personal relationships--including his sixty-six-year marriage to his wife, Sarah--his faith, military service during World War II, recognition of his work, and more. 2016It's my country too: women's military stories from the American Revolution to Afghanistan
By Tracy Crow, Jerri Bell. 2017
A collection of accounts of women aiding in military efforts throughout American history, beginning with the Revolutionary War. Includes profiles…
of Harriet Tubman, Josette Dermody Wingo, Barbara Dulinsky, and Brooke King, among many others. Features excerpts from diaries, letters, oral histories, and memoirs. Some violence and some strong language. 2017A dog called hope: a wounded warrior and the service dog who saved him
By Damien Lewis, Jason Morgan. 2017
The memoir of a former Special Forces soldier. Wounded badly and told he would never walk again, Morgan's recovery was…
long, and his wife left him with their three young sons. At this lowest point, a special service dog named Napal entered his life. Some violence and some strong language. 2016Shoot like a girl: one woman's dramatic fight in Afghanistan and on the home front
By Mary Jennings Hegar. 2017
An account of the author's military career. Discusses her role as a pilot in the US Air Force, flying combat…
search-and-rescue missions and earning her more than one award. Also recounts her fight to eliminate the military's Ground Combat Exclusion Policy. Some violence. 2017The commander: Fawzi al-Qawuqji and the fight for Arab independence, 1914-1948
By Laila Parsons. 2016
The biography of military commander Fawzi al-Qawuqji, beginning with his time as a young officer in the Ottoman Army and…
continuing through his most famous role as commander of the Arab Liberation Army in the Arab-Israeli War of 1948. 2016American Ulysses: a life of Ulysses S. Grant
By Ronald C. White. 2016
Though Ulysses S. Grant was admired in his time, his reputation plummeted in the twentieth century. The author argues for…
a reevaluation of Grant's legacy. Using extensive primary documents, the biographer creates a portrait of Grant's character and details his work and accomplishments, including his efforts to battle the Ku Klux Klan. 2016Danger close: my epic journey as a combat helicopter pilot in Iraq and Afghanistan
By Amber Smith. 2016
Memoir of a female helicopter pilot who saw active combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. Describes the heat of battle, coping…
with the elite "boys' club" mentality in Army aviation, and lessons learned that could apply to civilian life as well. Strong language and some violence. 2016All the gallant men: an American sailor's firsthand account of Pearl Harbor
By Ken Gire, Donald Stratton. 2016
One of five living survivors from aboard the USS Arizona during the Pearl Harbor surprise attack in 1941, Donald Stratton…
recounts his harrowing escape from the burning ship amid enemy fire, his ultimate recovery, and his determination to return to the fight. Violence. 2016There plant eyes: A personal and cultural history of blindness
By M. Leona Godin. 2021
From Homer to Helen Keller, from Dune to Stevie Wonder, from the invention of braille to the science of echolocation,…
M. Leona Godin explores the fascinating history of blindness, interweaving it with her own story of gradually losing her sight. There Plant Eyes probes the ways in which blindness has shaped our ocularcentric culture, challenging deeply ingrained ideas about what it means to be “blind.” For millennia, blindness has been used to signify such things as thoughtlessness (“blind faith”), irrationality (“blind rage”), and unconsciousness (“blind evolution”). But at the same time, blind people have been othered as the recipients of special powers as compensation for lost sight (from the poetic gifts of John Milton to the heightened senses of the comic book hero Daredevil). Godin—who began losing her vision at age ten—illuminates the often-surprising history of both the condition of blindness and the myths and ideas that have grown up around it over the course of generations. She combines an analysis of blindness in art and culture (from King Lear to Star Wars) with a study of the science of blindness and key developments in accessibility (the white cane, embossed printing, digital technology) to paint a vivid personal and cultural history.Nous étions aux premiers mois de la pandémie, c’était à la mi-avril 2020. Luc Maurice a rencontré Jacques Beaulieu qui…
avait en tête le projet d’écrire un livre sur la pandémie afin de connaître l’impact d’un tel événement sur les personnes vivant ou œuvrant en résidence pour aînés. Une collaboration est ainsi née. À travers ces pages, vous découvrirez la vie de ces personnes durant la première vague de COVID-19, un épisode de l’histoire de l’humanité qui nous a tous marqué, endeuillé de près ou de loin, et qui se doit certainement d’être mis sur papier.Clausewitz: a very short introduction (Very Short Introductions #Vol. 61)
By Michael Howard. 2002
British military historian explains the theories of Karl von Clausewitz (1780-1831), the Prussian officer who wrote the classic treatise On…
War. Argues that, despite their limitations, Clausewitz's pragmatic insights on strategy and tactics are as relevant today as they were two centuries ago. 1983A former top Pentagon official traces how war has transitioned from being considered, typically, a temporary state of affairs between…
times of peace to a continuous state. Argues that when the boundaries around war disappear, one risks destroying the founding values of America and invites chaos. 2016Fifteen Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death from Inside the New Canadian Army
By Christie Blatchford. 2021
Long before she made her first trip to Afghanistan as an embedded reporter for The Globe and Mail, Christie Blatchford…
was already one of Canada’s most respected and eagerly read journalists. Her vivid prose, her unmistakable voice, her ability to connect emotionally with her subjects and readers, her hard-won and hard-nosed skills as a reporter–these had already established her as a household name. But with her many reports from Afghanistan, and in dozens of interviews with the returned members of the 1st Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry and others back at home, she found the subject she was born to tackle. Her reporting of the conflict and her deeply empathetic observations of the men and women who wear the maple leaf are words for the ages, fit to stand alongside the nation’s best writing on war.It is a testament to Christie Blatchford’s skills and integrity that along with the admiration of her readers, she won the respect and trust of the soldiers. They share breathtakingly honest accounts of their desire to serve, their willingness to confront fear and danger in the battlefield, their loyalty towards each other and the heartbreak occasioned by the loss of one of their own. Grounded in insights gained over the course of three trips to Afghanistan in 2006, and drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews not only with the servicemen and -women with whom she shared so much, but with their commanders and family members as well, Christie Blatchford creates a detailed, complex and deeply affecting picture of military life in the twenty-first century.Dan Schilling shares how to identify and avoid threats using situational awareness and intuition. Told with wit and wisdom, this…
guide uses harrowing stories from Dan's special operations career and those of other experts to outline six easily implemented rules you can apply anywhere to improve your personal safetyWalk in my combat boots: true stories from America's bravest warriors
By James Patterson. 2021
The golden lad: the haunting story of Quentin and Theodore Roosevelt
By Eric Burns. 2016
An examination of the life of President Theodore Roosevelt's youngest son, the frail Quentin, and his relationship with his father.…
Particularly discusses how, after Roosevelt's championing America's entry into WWI, Quentin ultimately died in aerial combat. 2016