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Generally speaking: the memoirs of Major-General Richard Rohmer
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.Best of enemies: the last great spy story of the Cold War
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.Experience on demand: what virtual reality is, how it works, and what it can do
By Jeremy Bailenson. 2018
Craig & Fred: a Marine, a stray dog, and how they rescued each other
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.Dispatches from the Pacific: the World War II reporting of Robert L. Sherrod
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.Cyberspies: the secret history of surveillance, hacking, and digital espionage
By Gordon Corera. 2016
Reveals the history of espionage and its use of and dependency on technology, beginning with the Second World War and…
continuing through the Cold War and into the present Internet age where hackers and surveillance are commonplace. 2016.Dark territory: the secret history of cyber war
By Fred M Kaplan. 2016
Probes the inner corridors of the National Security Agency, the beyond-top-secret cyber units in the Pentagon, the "information warfare" squads…
of the military services, and the national security debates in the White House to tell this never-before-told story of the officers, policymakers, scientists, and spies who devised this new form of warfare and who have been planning - and, more often than people know, fighting - these wars for decades. From the 1991 Gulf War to conflicts in Haiti, Serbia, Syria, the former Soviet republics, Iraq, and Iran, where cyber warfare played a significant role, the book chronicles, in fascinating detail, a little-known past that shines an unsettling light on our future. 2016.Chickenhawk
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.His father's son: the life of General Ted Roosevelt Jr
By Tim Brady. 2017
Douglas MacArthur: American warrior
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.Mitic brings together veterans and active military personnel from across Canada to tell us, in their own words, what it…
means to answer the call of duty. Meet the World War II bomb aimer whose plane engines failed over Hamburg during a raid, the naval signalman who patrolled heavily bombarded waters in Southeast Asia during the Korean War, and the unarmed peacekeeper who found himself standing on a road riddled with mines in Rwanda. From the young recruit who marched over thirty kilometres on a broken leg to prove her mettle, to the three brothers in arms who endured a summer of relentless fighting in Afghanistan, this collection captures the pain and sacrifice, the risks and rewards of standing on guard for Canada. Bestseller. 2017.All for the Union: the Civil War diary and letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes
By Elisha Hunt Rhodes, Robert Hunt Rhodes. 1991
Enlisting as a private in the 2nd Rhode Island Infantry, Elisha Hunt Rhodes fought in every major campaign waged by…
the Army of the Potomac, from Bull Run to Appomattox. Here, in his own powerfully moving words, Rhodes reveals why he was willing to die to preserve his beloved Union. 1991.American general: the life and times of William Tecumseh Sherman
By John S. D Eisenhower. 2014
Biography of William Tecumseh Sherman, the Civil War general whose path of destruction cut the Confederacy in two, broke the…
will of the Southern population, and earned him a place in history as “the first modern general”. Eisenhower takes readers from Sherman's Ohio origins and his fledgling first stint in the Army, to his years as a businessman in California and his hurried return to uniform at the outbreak of the war. From Bull Run through the March to the Sea, Eisenhower offers up a fascinating narrative of a military genius whose influence helped preserve the Union - and forever changed war. 2014.Code girls: the untold story of the American women code breakers of World War II
By Liza Mundy. 2017
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. 2017.Deep thinking: where machine intelligence ends and human creativity begins
By G. K Kasparov. 2017
In May 1997, the world watched as Garry Kasparov, the greatest chess player in the world, was defeated by the…
IBM supercomputer Deep Blue. Now Kasparov tells his side of the story. 2017.Fierce patriot: the tangled lives of William Tecumseh Sherman
By Robert L O'Connell. 2014
America’s first “celebrity” general, William Tecumseh Sherman was a man of many faces. Some of them were exalted in the…
public eye. Others were known only to intimates—his family, friends and lovers, and the soldiers under his command. In this portrait the author captures the man in full: from his early exploits in Florida, to his role in California at the start of the Gold Rush, through his brilliant but tempestuous generalship during the Civil War, and to his postwar career as a key player in the building of the transcontinental railroad. 2014.Hit by an iceberg: coping with disability in mid-career
By Janet Freedman, Marie Howes. 2003
More people suffer a disability before age 65 than die before age 65. Shows how to manage a mid-career disabling…
experience from a personal, financial, and legal standpoint. A guide through government and private insurance and rehabilitation programmes, housing and living assistance, and legal and money management considerations. 2003.From romance to reality: Stories Of Canadian Wwii War Brides
By Peggy O'Hara. 1983
Peggy O'Hara, this book's editor, was a so-called war bride, coming to Canada from England after marrying a Canadian serviceman…
during the Second World War. She later wondered about the other thousands of British and Dutch women who had done the same. What uprooted them from family and friends and brought them to a strange, sparsely populated country? She collected their stories, some happy, some sad, in an effort to find out.