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By Philip Boehm. 2005
This anonymous diary written by a woman in Berlin describes life within the falling city as it was sacked by…
the Russian Army in 1945. Fending off the boredom and deprivation of hiding, she records her experiences, observations and meditations in this stark and vivid diary. Reports of the bombing, the rationing of food, the overwhelming terror of death and the rapes are written in dispassionate, though determinedly optimistic prose. 2005.By Joseph Kaifala. 2018
Joseph Kaifala recounts the harrowing details of his early life, facing unimaginable violence from the civil wars in Sierra Leone…
and Liberia, and the quest for survival that eventually led him to the United States. 2018.By Ian Gardner. 2015
Col. Ed Shames is that rare man who can call himself a true warrior. A member of Easy Company of…
‘Band of Brothers’ fame, Shames saw combat in some of the most ferocious battles of WW2. From jumping behind the lines of Normandy on D-Day with the 101st Airborne Division, to the near victory of Operation Market Garden, to the legendary stand at Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge, Shames fought his way across Europe and into Germany itself. Although he started as a private, combat soon forged Shames into a tough and inspired leader who would win a battle field commission in Normandy. Seemingly always where the fighting was, his two goals were to prevail in each fight with the Germans, and to keep his men alive. 2015.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.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.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.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.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.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.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.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.By Bryan Davies, Andrew Traficante, Arthur Manuel. 2017
By Linda Granfield. 2002
This book tells the story of Canada's war brides. 48,000 young women met and married Canadian servicemen in Europe during…
World War II. Nothing could have prepared them for their experience in this new land. Some regretted their hasty love affairs and others enjoyed more than 50 years of happy marriage. 2002.By Chris Tarrant. 2014
Chris Tarrant and his father Basil were very close - they played sports together, watched sports together, and shared the…
same sense of humour. Chris loved and admired his father but it was only after his death he realised that he hardly knew him at all. Basil Avery Tarrant grew up in 1920s Reading. He worked as an administrator in a local factory and spent his Saturday nights down at the music halls. But what happened to Basil during the war, and how he came to be awarded the Military Cross, remained a mystery to Chris and his family for nearly sixty years. In this emotional journey, Chris discovers that Basil was involved in some of WWII's most significant campaigns. 2014.By Stephen E Ambrose. 1992
A description of life in the Easy Company, 101st Airborne Division, US Army, from the time of their rigorous training…
in Georgia in 1942 to D-Day and victory. Drawing on interviews, journals and letters, the author tells - often in their own words - the story of these American heroes. c1992, 2001.C'est quand les cons sont braves qu'ils commettent les pires bêtises. Voilà ce que dit en substance Brassens dans une…
de ses chansons posthumes, à laquelle Martin Petit emprunte son titre pour le récit de son parcours de quatorze années dans l'armée canadienne. Avec une verve extraordinaire et beaucoup d'aplomb, il nous fait revivre l'histoire et les émotions d'un fantassin qui a servi sur de nombreux théâtres d'opération, dans le golfe Persique, en ex-Yougoslavie et en Somalie. Il nous rend sensible l'évolution d'un garçon qui s'est engagé par goût de l'aventure et pour voir du pays, et qui ressort de chaque conflit un peu plus marqué par l'horreur de la guerre. Ayant aujourd'hui à vivre avec le syndrome de stress post-traumatique, Martin Petit est devenu farouchement pacifiste. S'il brise ici la loi du silence, c'est qu'il voudrait, par son témoignage, éviter à d'autres jeunes gens de connaître les mêmes épreuves que lui. -- 4e de couv.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.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.By Farley Mowat. 1975
The barbarity and futility of war transformed a swaggering, self-confident junior officer into a seasoned, cynical veteran as his regiment…
was decimated in Sicily and struggled to survive the carnage of the 1943 Italian campaign. Strong language and descriptions of violence. Canada Reads 2012. 2003, c1975.