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Flag 4: the battle of coastal forces in the Mediterranean 1939-1945
By Dudley Pope. 1998
FLAG 4, the signal for attack with torpedoes, is an account of the actions of British motor torpedo boats and…
US PT-boats in the Mediterranean during the Second World War. It is based on the eyewitness accounts of the officers and men who served in these perilous actions. 1998.D-Day, 1944: voices from Normandy
By Robin Neillands, Roderick De Normann. 1994
This is the story of one day, fifty miles of French coast and about 200,000 men: of Operation "Overlord" and…
the events of June 6th, 1944. Told in the words of those who were there, from commanding officers to privates, are the tales of British, Canadian, American and German soldiers, sailors and airmen and the men and women of the French resistance. Here is a full account of the largest, most complex invasion in the history of warfare. 1994.Enemies become friends: a true story of German Prisoners of War
By Pamela Howe Taylor. 1997
Using letters, diaries and newspaper reports the text tells of the people of Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire at the end of…
the Second World War, who welcomed German prisoners of war from the local camp into their homes at Christmas, and later they scraped together food and clothing to send to those same prisoners when they were repatriated to a devastated Germany. 1997.German jet aces of World War 2 (Osprey aircraft of the aces. #17.)
By Stephen H Morgan, John A Weal. 1998
The Third Reich's last ditch efforts to sweep the massed Allied bomber formations from the skies of Germany centred around…
the new crop of jet 'wonder weapons' that were issued to the 'Jagdwaffe' from mid-1944 onwards. Despite operating from autobahns and forest runways, always being short of the exotic fuels necessary and lacking any strength in numbers, a handful of pilots amassed amazing scores in the last year of the war on these aircraft, flying with units like JG 7, JV 44 and NJG 11. This is their story. 1998.Kasztner's train: the true story of Rezso Kasztner, unknown hero of the holocaust
By Anna Porter. 2007
In summer 1944, Rezso Kasztner, a lawyer and journalist, met with Adolf Eichmann in Budapest, where the two men made…
an agreement that allowed 1,684 Jews to leave for Switzerland by train. In other manoeuvrings, Kastzner may also have saved another 40,000 Jews already in the camps. Kasztner was later judged for having "sold his soul to the devil", and prior to being exonerated, he was murdered in Israel in 1957. Some explicit descriptions of violence and strong language. 2007.Juno Beach: Canada's D-Day victory, June 6, 1944
By Mark Zuehlke. 2004
On June 6, 1944, the greatest armada in history stood off Normandy and the largest amphibious invasion ever began, as…
107,000 men aboard 6,000 ships attacked the French coast. Of the 18,000 Canadians involved in storming Juno Beach, one out of every six either died or was wounded, yet they were the only Allied troops to meet their objectives. Drawing on personal diaries as well as military records, the author depicts Canada's pivotal contribution to the most critical Allied battle of World War II. 2004.Killing the Bismarck: destroying the pride of Hitler's fleet
By Iain Ballantyne. 2017
In May 1941, the German battleship Bismarck, accompanied by heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, broke out into the Atlantic to attack…
Allied shipping. The Royal Navy's pursuit and subsequent destruction of the Bismarck was an epic of naval warfare. In this new account of those dramatic events at the height of the Second World War, Ballantyne draws extensively on the graphic eye-witness testimony of veterans to construct a thrilling story, mainly from the point of view of the British battleships, cruisers, and destroyers involved. He describes the tense atmosphere as cruisers play a lethal cat-and-mouse game as they shadow Bismarck in the icy Denmark Strait. We witness the shocking destruction of the British battle cruiser HMS Hood, in which all but three of her ship's complement were killed, an event that fueled pursuing Royal Navy warships, including the battered battleship Prince of Wales, with a thirst for revenge. 2017.Gentleman Jim: the wartime story of a founder of the SAS and Special Forces
By Lorna Almonds Windmill. 2002
The story of Jim Almonds is set in wartime England, the western desert, Italy and France, and recounts his formative…
role in the birth of the SAS. Against a backdrop of love, courage and high-risk adventure, it captures the real spirit of the young soldiers in the newly emerging Special Air Service. 2002.Forgotten victory: First Canadian Army and the cruel winter of 1944-45
By Mark Zuehlke. 2014
During the winter of 1944-45, the western Allies desperately sought a strategy that would lead to Germany's quick defeat. After…
much rancorous debate, the Allied high command decided that First Canadian Army would launch the pivotal offensive. Their story is one largely lost to the common national history of World War II. “Forgotten Victory” gives this important legacy back to Canadians. c2014.How to expect what you're not expecting: stories of pregnancy, parenthood and loss
By Jessica Hiemstra, Lisa Martin-DeMoor. 2013
One size fits all does not apply to pregnancy and childbirth. Each one is different, unique, and comes with its…
share of happiness and pain. But how does one prepare for an unexpected loss of a pregnancy or hoped-for baby? In this anthology, writers share their true stories of miscarriage, stillbirth, infertility, and other, related losses, which can prepare and guide women and their families for when the unforeseen happens. 2013.Invasions without tears: the story of Canada's top-scoring Spitfire wing in Europe during the Second World War
By Monty Berger, Brian Jeffrey Street. 1994
Based on a manuscript written by Monty Berger in 1945, "Invasion without tears" chronicles the RCAF's 126 Wing from its…
formation in July 1943 to VE-Day two years later. The pilots of 126 Wing were among the war's most decorated and 126 Wing scored more victories than any other Allied air force. 1994.Indianapolis: the true story of the worst sea disaster in U.S. naval history and the fifty-year fight to exonerate an innocent man
By Lynn Vincent, Sara Vladic. 2018
Based on years of original research and new reporting, two acclaimed authors deliver the riveting and emotionally wrenching full story…
of the worst sea disaster in United States naval history: the sinking of the USS Indianapolis during World War II--and the fifty-year fight to exonerate the captain after a wrongful court martial. 2018.Infamy: the shocking story of the Japanese American internment in World War II
By Richard Reeves. 2015
Examines the key causes and dire consequences of the Japanese-American internment in relocation camps during WWII, concentrating on a shortsighted…
military strategy and anti-Japanese sentiment following the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. 2015.In the name of humanity
By Max Wallace. 2017
On November 26, 1944, prisoners at Auschwitz heard a deafening explosion. Emerging from their barracks, they witnessed the crematoria--part of…
the largest killing machine in human history--come crashing down. Most assumed they had fallen victim to inmate sabotage and thousands gave a silent cheer. However, the Final Solution's most efficient murder apparatus had been felled by SS chief Heinrich Himmler--an edict that has puzzled historians for more than six decades. Wallace draws on a cache of recently declassified documents and an account from the only living eyewitness to unravel the mystery. He reveals an incredible story involving the secret negotiations of an unlikely trio--a former fascist President of Switzerland, a courageous Orthodox Jewish woman, and Himmler himself--to end the Holocaust, aided by clandestine Swedish and American intelligence efforts. 2017.On 30th July 1945 the USS 'Indianapolis' was torpedoed in the South Pacific by a Japanese submarine. Of a crew…
of 1196 men an estimated 300 were killed upon impact; nearly 900 sailors were cast into the Pacific Ocean, where they remained, undetected by the Navy, for nearly five days. Battered by a savage sea, they struggled to stay alive, fighting off sharks, hypothermia and dementia. This text investigates the stories of three survivors; the captain, the ship's doctor and a young marine. 2001.In Hitler's Germany: daily life in the Third Reich
By Bernt Engelmann. 1986
The author interweaves his memories and interviews with those of war survivors. Some of the Germans who speak here are…
completely unrepentant, still adore Hitler, and cannot understand why his reputation is ruined. 1986. Uniform title: Im Gleichschritt marsch.Black asserts that Nazi Germany used IBM punch-card technology to improve the efficiency of its persecutions during World War II…
and that IBM actively enabled the Holocaust and profited financially from collaboration with the Third Reich. Black also recounts how IBM aided the Allies, especially in code-breaking techniques. Bestseller. Winner of the 2003 CNIB Torgi Award. 2001.Holding Juno: Canada's heroic defence of the D-Day beaches, June 7-12, 1944
By Mark Zuehlke. 2005
D-Day ended with the Canadians six miles inland - the deepest penetration achieved by Allied forces that day - but…
every soldier knew the worst was yet to come. The Germans began probing the Canadian lines early in the morning of June 7 and shortly after dawn counter attacked in force. The ensuing six days of battle was to prove bloodier than D-Day itself, as the Canadians fought to save the vulnerable beachheads they had won. Sequel to "Juno Beach Canada's D-Day victory, June 6, 1944". c2005.Because we are Canadians: a battlefield memoir
By Charles D Kipp, Lynda Sykes. 2003
Sergeant Charles D. Kipp was a Canadian soldier in the Second World War, fighting in the months following D-Day. Countless…
hardships were endured and when the war ended, Kipp had a lifetime of aftermath to deal with, both physically and mentally. Closure came for him decades later when he revisited a battlefield. Descriptions of violence. 2003.D-Day: Juno Beach, Canada's 24 hours of destiny
By Lance Goddard. 2004
Many have called it the most important event of the twentieth century - and Canada played a key role. When…
Canadian troops landed at Juno Beach, they faced some of the fiercest opposition of the attack, yet they managed to advance further inland than all the other Allied forces. An hour-by-hour chronicle of D-Day, told through the words of the men themselves. Some descriptions of violence. 2004.