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By Sandra Perron. 2017
Throughout her military training, Sandra Perron was repeatedly identified as top of her class, but was also subject to "pranks"…
that included stripping her uniform of insignia (which is a not-so-subtle way of informing her that her platoon did not have her back). The lessons she learned, however, weren't all negative - through several deployments, including Bosnia and Croatia, she forged lasting friendships with men and women. Her memoir shows that while the Canadian military did eventually let her down, she did not do the same to her fellow soldiers or her country; it also shows that the spirit of a true hero cannot be bent or broken. Winner of the 2017 Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction (QWF). 2017.By Terence O'Brien. 1984
Anyone who survived a full tour of bombing missions with Costal Command had won life against long odds. The RAF…
wisely and justly did its best to keep such people off operations for a year or so. This text forms the author's account of the war in Burma. 1984.By Gilbert Boulanger. 2010
" Gilbert Boulanger est un homme hors du commun. Membre du Panthéon de l'aviation du Canada, il construit à 84…
ans un biplace avec son ami Denis et publie à 87 ans le récit de son expérience comme mitrailleur dans l'aviation canadienne pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale : Lalouette affolée. " -- 4e de couv.By Normand Lester, Yvon Simard. 1991
L'auteur a été le premier à révéler, après la mort de Gerard Bull, que ce dernier travaillait à un projet…
de canon géant d'une technologie révolutionnaire et que sa participation au programme irakien de missiles avait sans doute provoqué son assassinat. 1991.By Gérard Marchand. 1980
Voici le récit des péripéties vécues par les soldats du Régiment de Maisonneuve durant la phase la plus meurtrière de…
la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Vous revivrez de l'intérieur les drames et les joies de ces combattants dont la vie ne tenait qu'à un fil. 1980.By Jean Chapdelaine Gagnon, Maureen Forrester, Marci McDonald. 1989
La cantatrice canadienne Maureen Forrester évoque ici son enfance à Montréal, ses aventures de coulisses, sa vie trépidante autour du…
monde, ses succès et ses mésaventures a l'opéra. Elle raconte aussi son idylle et son mariage avec le violoniste Eugene Kash, sa vie d'épouse et de mère de cinq enfants. 1989. Titre uniforme: Out of character.1980s Los Angeles. Amid rising gang violence, the crack epidemic, and police brutality, a group of unlikely voices cut through…
the chaos: N.W.A. Led by a drug dealer, a glammed-up producer, and a high school kid, N.W.A gave voice to disenfranchised African Americans across the country, and redefined pop culture across the world. The author explores how this group of artists shifted the balance of hip-hop; how their shocking success lead to rivalries between members, record labels, and eventually a war between East Coast and West Coast factions. In the process, hip-hop burst into mainstream America, and became the most dominant musical movement of the last thirty years. 2016.By Dillon Hillier, Russell Hillier. 2016
Dillon Hillier, a corporal with the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, returned home from a tour in Afghanistan and started…
up a normal life. But when ISIS insurgents began attacking local populations in Iraq and elsewhere, Hillier, a long-time soldier, felt he had to join in the action, so he sold his truck, lied to his parents about where he was going and became the first Canadian to volunteer to fight ISIS in Iraq. For three months, Dillon accompanied the Kurdish army as they fought a series of battles against the Islamic State throughout northern Iraq. During his mission, Dillon saw combat, experienced life in the trenches, partnered with a former US Marine, had a bounty placed on his head and learned an important truth: that in the chaos of war, the difference between life and death is measured in inches, and some things can never be forgotten. 2016.By Andrew Winton. 2001
The story of an Edinburgh art teacher who was shot down at night over Frankfurt in September 1941. There began…
four years of captivity in Nazi POW camps, escapes and constant danger in Germany, Czechoslovakia and Poland. Longing for freedom, with courage and determination, he survived hunger, cold and beatings - even a spell in Buchenwald - to give evidence at Nuremberg. 2001.By Robert J Dole. 2005
Former senator from Kansas describes his enlistment into the elite U.S. Army 10th Mountain Division as a lieutenant during World…
War II. Chronicles the April 14, 1945, battle in Italy that paralyzed him, his long recovery, first marriage, and entry into civilian life and the political sphere. Bestseller. 2005.By Magdalene Krüger Klinksiek, Janet M Hixon. 1996
By Gerri Hirshey. 1984
The story of soul music through anecdotes and interviews with James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross, Michael Jackson and Mary…
Wilson, among others. Some strong language. For junior and senior high readers. 1984,By Kees Vanderheyden. 1994
Pour un enfant insouciant, la guerre ressemble parfois à un jeu.Mais ce livre est aussi une prise de conscience des…
drames effrayants que les conflits entraînent. Un témoignage important en cette époque où, aux quatre coins du monde, des enfants innocents côtoient quotidiennement la guerre et la mort. Années 3-6. 1994.By Louise Drolet, Don G Campbell. 1998
By Georges Amsellem. 2014
Georges Amsellem est né au Maroc. En 1968, il immigre à Montréal en passant par Israël et la France. Il…
s'occupe d'écriture et de production de films. Son propre itinéraire le sensibilise à la condition des immigrants, au département des minorités, écartelées entre l'exil et l'espoir. Il poétise, sans nostalgie ni complaisance sur l'espace, le temps et les sables du désert qu'il fait éclater pour ensuite nous en restituer la quintessence. 2014.By Ben Wicks. 1988
On 1st September 1939, in Britain, hundreds of thousands of children made their way to the railway station. In the…
homes of "borrowed parents", they listened as the Prime Minister declared war with Germany. This book serves as a record of the evacuated children whose lives were changed forever. 1988.By Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel. 2006
Night offers a personal and unforgettable account of the appalling horrors of Hitler's reign of terror. Through the eyes of…
14-year-old Eliezer, we behold the tragic fate of the Jews from the little town of Sighet. Even as they are stuffed into cattle cars bound for Auschwitz, the townspeople refuse to believe rumours of anti-Semitic atrocities. Not until they are marched toward the blazing crematory at the camp's "reception centre" does the terrible truth sink in. 2006. Uniform title: Un di ṿelṭ hoṭ geshṿign.By Don Rearden, Jimmy Settle. 2017
The true story of how Jimmy Settle, an Alaskan shoe store clerk, became a Special Forces Operator and war hero.…
After being shot in the head during a dangerous high mountain operation in the rugged Watapur Valley in Afghanistan, Jimmy returns to battle with his teammates for a dangerous rescue operation, bullet fragments stitched over and still in his skull. 2017.By David Hepworth. 2016
1971 was defined by the musical arrival of such stars as David Bowie, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, and Joni Mitchell.…
The world would hear Don McLean's "American Pie," The Rolling Stones' "Brown Sugar," The Who's "Baba O'Riley," Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven," Rod Stewart's "Maggie May," Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On," and more. Hepworth takes us on a tour of the major moments, events, and songs of this remarkable year, showing how musicians came together to form the perfect storm of rock and roll greatness, starting a musical era that would last longer than anyone predicted. 2016.By Nadja Halilbegovićh. 2006
Halilbegovich was just 12 years old on April 6, 1992, when she was told there would be no school that…
day - not because of a holiday, but because of a war. Her diary reveals the hurt, pain, and despair brought on by the fighting within her country and describes the bombings, deaths, and destruction. Grades 4-7. Some descriptions of violence. 2006.