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Agent Zigzag: the true wartime story of Eddie Chapman : lover, betrayer, hero, spy
By Ben Macintyre. 2007
On a chill December night in 1942, a Nazi parachutist landed in a Cambridgeshire field. His mission: to sabotage the…
British war effort. His German masters called him Fritz, or Fritzchen. The British police knew him as Eddie Chapman. Within weeks Chapman was in the hands of MI5 and operating as Agent Zigzag. 2007.Over 100 interviews with Canadian World War II pilots, coupled with information contained in logbooks, diaries and letters home, reveal…
the world of aerial combat. From training to engaging the enemy, the pilots describe harsh living conditions, lack of sleep, and the emotional roller-coaster of a pilot's life - including the sudden loss of a friend or brother. Some descriptions of sex, violence and some strong language. Bestseller 2005.A soldier first: bullets, bureaucrats and the politics of war
By Rick Hillier. 2009
Born and raised in Newfoundland, Hillier joined the military as a young man and quickly climbed the ranks, playing a…
significant role in the 1998 ice storm and moving on to command a multinational NATO task force in Bosnia-Herzegovina. But it was his role as Canada's Chief of the Defence staff that defined him as a Canadian icon, as he demanded more funding, more troops and more appreciation for the women and men fighting in Afghanistan. Some strong language. c2009.A rage for glory: the life of Commodore Stephen Decatur, USN
By James T De Kay. 2004
De Kay recounts the life of Commodore Stephen Decatur in the first new biography of the great naval hero. He…
chronicles the exploits of one of 19th-century America's bravest and most celebrated heroes. 2004.A lucky child: a memoir of surviving Auschwitz as a young boy
By Thomas Buergenthal. 2010
Thomas Buergenthal is unique. He is a judge at the International Court in The Hague who was rescued from the…
death camps of Auschwitz at the age of 11. In his funny and heartfelt memoirs, he tells the story of his extraordinary journey - from the horrors of Nazism to an investigation of modern day genocide. 2010. Uniform title: Glückskind.A message from the Falklands: the life and gallant death of David Tinker: from his letters and poems
By David Tinker, Hugh Tinker. 1983
Lieutenant Tinker was killed in the Falklands action. This collection of his letters home begins before his Falklands service days,…
but it is his clear perception of what is happening and how his views on war are changing that gives the book its relevance - and its poignancy. 1983.A keen soldier: the execution of Second World War Private Harold Joseph Pringle
By Andrew Clark. 2002
Harold Pringle was underage and eager to fight when the Second World War broke out, but he soon found himself…
in Italy, with two-thirds of his company dead and himself shell-shocked. He embarked on a tragic, final course that culminated in a suspect murder conviction. His appeal was reviewed by the highest levels of government, right up to Prime Minister King, but Private Pringle was put to death - the only soldier the Canadians executed in the whole of the Second World War. Some descriptions of violence. 2002.A crown of life: the world of John McCrae
By Dianne Graves. 1997
John McCrae's poem "In Flanders Fields" is remembered and recited every Nov. 11th on Remembrance Day. Here is the story…
of McCrae's life and of the war he lived through as a young doctor serving in the Canadian Army. 1997.81 days below zero: the incredible survival story of a World War II pilot in Alaska's frozen wilderness
By Brian Murphy, Toula Vlahou. 2015
Shortly before Christmas in 1943, five Army aviators left Alaska's Ladd Field on a test flight. Only one ever returned:…
Leon Crane, a city kid from Philadelphia with little more than a parachute on his back when he bailed from his B-24 Liberator before it crashed into the Arctic. Alone in subzero temperatures, Crane managed to stay alive in the dead of the Yukon winter for nearly twelve weeks and, amazingly, walked out of the ordeal intact. Murphy recounts, for the first time, the full story of Crane's remarkable saga. 2015.A boy from Botwood: Pte. A.W. Manuel, Royal Newfoundland Regiment, 1914-1919
By Bryan Davies, Andrew Traficante, Arthur Manuel. 2017
The incredible War of 1812: a military history
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.Under an Afghan sky: a memoir of captivity
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.Unbroken: a World War II story of survival, resilience, and redemption
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.Veterans with a vision: Canada's war blinded in peace and war (Studies in Canadian military history,)
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.They fight like soldiers, they die like children: the global quest to eradicate the use of child soldiers
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.The life and death of Adolf Hitler
By James Giblin. 2002
Biography of the German political leader whose racial prejudice and personal ambition shaped World War II. Traces Hitler's life and…
career from his birth in Austria in 1889 to his death in Berlin in 1945. Briefly discusses this tyrant's legacy. Some descriptions of violence. Grades 5-8 and older readers. Siebert Award. 2002.Waiting for first light: my ongoing battle with PTSD
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.Women in air force blue: the story of women in the Royal Air Force from 1918 to the present day
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.Wolfe et Montcalm: la véritable histoire de deux chefs ennemis
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.Wodehouse at war
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.