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I only joined for the hat: redoubtable Wrens at war : their trials, tribulations and triumphs
By Christina Lamb. 2007
In 1939, before compulsory call-up, Christian Lamb felt she had to 'do her bit' for the war effort. Her comfortable…
life was about to be turned upside down. With her naval background, the WRNS was the obvious choice - with its attractive uniform and tricorne hat - but this was for officers only, the first of many nasty surprises. This book gives an account of what life was truly like for the wartime Wrens. 2007.Hana's suitcase: a true story (The Holocaust remembrance series for young readers #3)
By Karen Levine. 2002
In March 2000, a suitcase arrived at a children's Holocaust education centre in Tokyo, Japan, with the name Hana Brady…
painted in white on the outside. The centre's curator searches for clues across Europe and North America to find out who Hana was and what had happened to her. Her journey takes her back through seventy years to a young Hana and her family, whose happy life in a small Czech town was turned upside down by the invasion of the Nazis. Winner of the 2003 Silver Birch Award. Winner of the 2003 CNIB Tiny Torgi Award. Grades 4-7. 2002.Cataract surgery: a patient's guide to cataract treatment
By Uday Devgan. 2008
More than 2.5 million Canadians have cataracts, with many needing surgery. This handbook covers the most frequently asked questions, such…
as What type of new lens is implanted in the eye? What type of anesthesia is used? Is there pain after the surgery? and How soon will vision improve? 2008.Beginnings and blueprints (A kernel Bk. #Vol. 11)
By Kenneth Jernigan. 1996
Nine accounts that give insight into how blind persons handle everyday situations. Jernigan explains how he reads blueprints, Marc Maurer…
tells of building a new porch roof with his two sighted children, and David Walker explains how he fishes alone. 1996.Father, soldier, son: memoir of a platoon leader in Vietnam
By Nathaniel Tripp. 1996
A writer's account of his combat experiences as an infantry platoon leader in Vietnam. Depicts the deteriorating morale of American…
forces following the Tet Offensive in 1968. He interweaves stories of home and family with his war recollections. Includes strong language, violence, and sex. c1996.Cyanide in my shoe
By Josephine Butler. 1991
Dr Butler, French educated and with a medical degree from the Sorbonne, was recruited by Churchill as the sole woman…
in his "Secret Circle", twelve intelligence agents who answered only to him. Flown more than fifty times into occupied France, arrested by the Gestapo for insulting two officers and under constant threat of discovery and death, here is the dramatic story of an Englishwoman who led a Resistance group. She describes both the inner circles who planned the war and the ordinary people of an invaded land. 1991.Big wing: the biography of Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory
By Bill Newton Dunn. 1992
The biography provides an account of one airman's very distinguished career, a man who did not survive the war. Known…
throughout the RAF as 'L-M', he commanded one of the two main Fighter Groups during the Battle of Britain. He later rose to be C-in-C Fighter Command and commanded the Allied air attack on Dieppe in 1942. 1992.Harnessing thought: the guide dog : a thinking animal with a skilful mind
By Bruce Johnston. 1995
This book presents a detailed explanation of dog behaviour and psychology, and how dogs can be educated to become skilled…
performers with adaptable and skilful minds, not merely well-conditioned and mechanistic robots. The traditional belief that animals were quite incapable of thinking or of making conscious decisions about alternative courses of decision is a dogma now contended; this book explains how a dog's conscious awareness replicates exactly the thought processes of the human brain. 1995.Guiding stars
By Peter Ireson. 1993
A selection of writings, recollections and images chosen to convey some of the joys and anxieties, achievements and disappointments experienced…
by the generations of people who have either used guide dogs or helped to provide them. 1993.An Iranian odyssey
By Gohar Kordi. 1991
Gohar Kordi was born in a small Kurdish village in Iran. At the age of four she became blind. The…
book chronicles her childhood in the country, the family's move to Teheran and her personal struggle to get an education and become the first woman student at university. 1991.Elsie and Mairi go to war: two extraordinary women on the Western Front
By Diane Atkinson. 2009
Elsie Knocker, 30, a divorced mother of one, and Mairi Gooden-Chisholm, an upper-class Scottish teenager, found their calling in Pervyse,…
Belgium during World War I. They drove packed frontline ambulances and nursed wounded soldiers in the midst of shelling and gravely unhygienic conditions. The startling end of the women's friendship remains the subject of speculation. Some descriptions of violence. 2009.Kids of Kabul: living bravely through a never-ending war
By Deborah Ellis. 2012
What has happened to Afghanistan's children since the fall of the Taliban in 2001? In 2011, Deborah Ellis went to…
Kabul to find out. She interviewed children who spoke about their lives now. They are still living in a country torn apart by war, and violence and oppression still exist, particularly affecting the lives of girls, but the kids are surviving with courage and optimism. Some descriptions of violence. Grades 4-7. 2012.Knights of the air: Canadian fighter pilots in the First World War
By David L Bashow. 2000
More than 13, 000 Canadian men flew with the British flying services during the First World War and at least…
171 of them became ace scout or fighter pilots. Of the twenty-six Empire aces with thirty or more claims, ten were Canadian. They were the knights of the air. 2000.Knife fights: a memoir of modern war in theory and practice
By John A Nagl. 2014
An influential Army officer traces the Gulf War experiences that shaped his perspectives on the changing nature of conventional combat…
and his views about terrorism, citing his role in co-authoring the military's new counterinsurgency field manual. 2014.Just Raoul: adventures in the French resistance
By James Bacque. 1990
Bacque explores the actions and motivations of Raoul Laporterie, the leader of a very successful resistance operation in France during…
the German occupation in the Second World War. Laporterie was the mayor of the village of Bascons and organized his family and townspeople into a unit which is credited with saving the lives of 1600 refugees, including Sephardic Jews, Catholic nuns, French soldiers, Allied flyers, and even German prisoners of war. 1990.Journey to independence: blindness, the Canadian story
By Euclid J Herie. 2005
Explores the history of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) - from the men who crafted its charter…
to the people who have made it a successful organization. Established in 1918, this organization has guided blind people out of a time of poverty and abuse, bringing them the same rights and freedoms as all Canadians. Millions of Canadians have been touched by the services it provides and by its message of hope. 2005.Bulletproof: one marine's ferocious account of close combat behind enemy lines
By Robert Jobson, Matt Croucher. 2009
The life of Lance Corporal Matt Croucher, a Royal Marine with 40 Commando, is a life of bullets, blood, and…
loyalty, of lives saved and lives taken. A raw recruit at 19, he was one of the first 200 Allied soldiers to invade Iraq as part of an elite force of British Marines and US Special Forces in 2003. 2009.Joey Jacobson's war: a Jewish Canadian airman in the Second World War
By Peter J Usher. 2018
Joey Jacobson, a young Jewish man from Westmount on the Island of Montreal, trained as a navigator and bomb-aimer in…
Western Canada. On arriving in England he was assigned to No. 106 Squadron, a British unit tasked with the bombing of Germany. Tells, in his own words, why he enlisted, his understanding of strategy, tactics, and the effectiveness of the air war at its lowest point, how he responded to the inevitable battle stress, and how he became both a hopeful idealist and a seasoned airman. Jacobson's written legacy as a serviceman is impressive in scope and depth and provides a lively and intimate account of a Jewish Canadian's life in the air and on the ground, written in the intensity of the moment, unfiltered by the memoirist's reflection, revision, or hindsight. Accompanying excerpts from his father's diary show the maturation of the relationship between father and son in a dangerous time. 2018.Janusz Zurakowski: legend in the skies
By Bill Zuk, Janusz Zurakowski. 2004
Zurakowski was an aeronautical engineer, World War II combat pilot, squadron leader, and an aerobatic performer. He flew over 60…
types of aircraft throughout his life and is one of the few pilots to have invented an aerobatic manoeuvre. In 1952, he came to Canada as the test pilot for the CF-100, Canada's first jet fighter, and the legendary but doomed Avro Arrow. Some strong language. 2004.J.D. Salinger: a life
By Kenneth Slawenski. 2010
Biography of Jerome David Salinger (1919-2010) examines connections between his life and his writing. Discusses Salinger's privileged youth, service in…
World War II, love for Oona O'Neill and other women, work for the New Yorker, and seclusion after publication of "The Catcher in the Rye" (DC00408). 2010.