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By Gitta Sereny. 1995
Franz Stangl was one of only four men to command Nazi extermination (as opposed to concentration) camps. This text is…
an investigation into this man's mind and the influences which shaped him. Stangl was found guilty of co-responsibility for the slaughter of at least 900,000 people. 1995.By Helene Moszkiewiez. 1985
In 1939, the author, then 19 years old, joined the Belgian underground. Her first assignment was to work as a…
clerk for the Gestapo and obtain information. She spent the next 6 years working as an agent, saving the lives of Jews and prisoners of war. 1985.By Daniel G Dancocks. 1983
Here, in their own words, are the sometimes tragic, sometimes triumphant stories of 165 men and their adventures of imprisonment…
in and escape from the P.O.W. camps of Germany, Italy, Japan and Hong Kong. 1983.By Gertrud Mackprang Baer. 2002
As a naive young German student in the last months of World War II, Gertrud Baer had the choice of…
working in an armament factory, where she could be killed by bombs or toxic chemicals, or joining the Nazi secret police, and she chose the latter. After the war, Baer was interned in Allied detention camps and later immigrated to Canada, where her wartime experiences provoked years of soul-searching about the responsibility of individual Germans in supporting the Nazis. 2002.In 1940, 19-year-old Howard Hewer dreamed of piloting Spitfires or Hurricanes over Europe. His dream was shattered when he was…
selected instead for a career as a wireless operator. He was not to be a pilot, but he would play a vital role in air operations in World War II over Europe and North Africa. Hewer tells the story of his life and adventures in Bomber Command. 2000.By Jessica Dee Humphreys, Michel Chikwanine. 2015
It's 1993, and the Democratic Republic of Congo is going through major political changes. Five-year-old Michel is playing with friends…
one day when, without warning, a group of rebel soldiers pulls up to the school grounds. Forced onto trucks, the frightened boys are taken to a camp in the hills. There they are thrust into a terrifying and violent world. Grades 5-8. Winner of the 2017 Red Maple Non-Fiction Award. 2015.This book shows how cultural, economic and moral prejudice locked blind people into frustrating mechanical labour and denied them their…
full humanity. It gives us a picture of historical forces that produced and often controlled ideas about blindness. 2008.By Jay Kopelman, Melinda Roth. 2006
During his tour of duty in Iraq, Kopelman endured the emotional stress common for those involved in bloody battles for…
freedom. Skirting the rules forbidding pets, he and his comrades adopted an abandoned puppy left behind after the battle for Fallujah. The dog, Lava, befriended the Marines and journalists and was eventually smuggled out of Iraq by the soldiers with the help of NPR reporters, John van Zante and the Helen Woodward Animal Center, Iraqi citizens, and the Iams pet food company. 2006.By Michael O Tunnell. 2010
"World War II was over, and Berlin was in ruins. US Air Force Lieutenant Gail Halvorsen knew the children of…
the city were suffering. They were hungry and afraid. The young pilot wanted to help, but what could one man in one plane do?" Grades 4-7. c2005.By Ray Wiss. 2009
Unusually for a Canadian Forces physician, Ray Wiss spent virtually his entire tour in the combat area, at Forward Operating…
Bases - "FOBs" - in Kandahar province, the birthplace of the Taliban and the most intense combat zone in Afghanistan. One day he might be treating severe and bloody injuries and coping with the deaths of fellow soldiers, both Afghans and Canadians; another day he might be facing the challenge of going to the latrine in sub-zero weather. Captain Wiss shares the "terror and boredom" of the front-line soldier's life in this first book by a Canadian veteran of the Afghan war. 2009.By Dan McCaffery. 1988
During World War I, Billy Bishop gained fame as a skilled fighter pilot and became the most decorated war hero…
in Canada. However, over the years, his aviation record has been questioned, especially the number of his "kills". 1988.By Richard Rohmer. 2004
Major-General Richard Rohmer, a commander of the Order of Military Merit and an Officer of the Order of Canada, began…
his career in World War II as a top Mustang reconnaissance pilot. He is also a lawyer, litigator, journalist and best-selling author of 28 books. Currently, he is a member of the board of directors of Hollinger Inc. and is arguably Canada's most decorated citizen. 2004.By Eric Dezenhall, Gus Russo. 2018
Thousands of women served as codebreakers in World War II, but a vow of secrecy nearly erased them from history.…
Through interviews with the surviving Code Girls, Liza Mundy brings their courageous stories to life. For senior high readers. 2018.By Craig Grossi. 2017
In 2010 Sergeant Craig Grossi was doing intelligence work for Marine Recon in a remote part of Afghanistan. While on…
patrol, he spotted a young stray dog "with a big goofy head and little legs." Fred not only stole Craig's heart; he won over the Recon fighters, who helped smuggle the dog into Camp Leatherneck. Fred eventually made it to Craig's family in Virginia, where months later, it was Fred's turn to save Craig's life. 2017.By Ray E Boomhower. 2017
In 1943, Time and Life correspondent Robert L. Sherrod chronicled combat and US marines' day-to-day struggles as they leapfrogged across…
the Central Pacific. While the marines confronted an enemy that at times seemed invincible, those left behind on the American home front relied upon Sherrod's columns for news of their loved ones. 2017.By Robert Mason. 2015
Fascinated with flying from a young age, Mason earned his private pilot's license even before graduating from high school. He…
enlisted in the Army in 1964 and was eventually sent to Vietnam. He survived more than 1,000 air combat missions despite the violence and brutality exploding all around him. 2015.By Tim Brady. 2017
By Arthur Herman. 2016
A vivid portrait of the American icon uses new sources to separate the man from the myth, exploring his elevation…
from Major General to his tenure as West Point's superintendent and field marshal of the Philippines and beyond. 2016.Less than a month after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Army formed its first air force designated to…
operate overseas, the Eighth. Within four months, they had set up base in England. Three months later, they were bombing German targets in occupied Europe. The Eighth was the first bomber command on either side to commit to strategic daylight bombing. It was a major change in tactics--and the men of the Eighth paid the price in both lives and blood. But it was that very sacrifice that led the Allies to victory. This story is told through these men, whose careers paralleled the early history of aviation--and who helped to revolutionize airborne warfare and win World War II. 2016.