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Follows the Canadian fighting forces during the battles of Vimy Ridge, Hill 70, Passchendaele, and the Hundred Days campaign, through…
the eyes of the soldiers who fought and died in the trenches, and based on newly uncovered sources. The Canadian fighting forces never lost a battle during the final 2 years of the war, and although they paid a terrible price, they were indeed, as British Prime Minister David Lloyd George exclaimed, the shock troops of the Empire. Companion to "At the sharp end" (DC32639). Some descriptions of sex and descriptions of violence. 2009.Shake hands with the devil: the failure of humanity in Rwanda
By Roméo A Dallaire, Brent Beardsley. 2003
As former head of the 1993 U.N. peacekeeping mission in Rwanda, Canadian general Dallaire's initial proposal called for 5,000 soldiers,…
to permit orderly elections and the return of the refugees. Nothing like this number was supplied, and the result was an outright attempt at genocide against the Tutsis that nearly succeeded, with 800,000 dead over three months. Dallaire's argument that Rwanda-like situations are fires that can be put out with a small force if caught early enough will certainly draw debate, but the book documents in horrifying detail what happens when no serious effort is made. Explicit descriptions of violence. Winner of the 2004 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. Canada Reads 2012. 2003.Scapegoat!: famous court martials
By John Harris. 1988
In documented accounts ranging from the mid-18th century through World War II, Harris presents nine cases from British, French and…
American military history of scapegoats made to face a court martial. Through these controversial cases Harris paints a disturbing picture of the abuse of the court martial system. 1988.Search for the soul
By Milbourne Christopher. 1979
Science and the paranormal: probing the existence of the supernatural
By Barry Singer, George O Abell. 1981
A collection of twenty articles in which eminent scientists and authorities, such as Carl Sagan and Isaac Asimov, take a…
critical look at popularized paranormal phenomena, including UFO's, psychics, and ancient astronauts. c1981.During the pioneering years of the Canadian West, Mountie Sam Steele took an active role in virtually every significant historical…
event. Steele kept the peace in the Yukon during the Gold rush, quelled rebellions, stood down violent strikers, faced Cree, Blackfoot, and Kootenay warriors, and also fought in the Boer War and the First World War. 2003.Sasquatch: ape or man
By John Green. 1978
Rogue warrior of the SAS: the Blair Mayne legend
By Martin Dillon, Roy Bradford. 2003
Half a century after his death, Lt Col. Robert Blair Mayne is still regarded as one of the greatest soldiers…
in the history of military special operations. He was the most decorated British soldier of the Second World War, receiving four DSOs, the Croix de Guerre and the Légion d'honneur, and he pioneered tactics used today by the SAS and other special operations units worldwide. Drawing on personal letters and family papers, declassified SAS files and records, together with the Official SAS Diary compiled in wartime and eyewitness accounts from many who served with him, the picture emerges of a soldier who, although a flawed hero, was unquestionably one of the most distinctive combatants of the campaigns in the Western Desert and Europe. 2003, c1987.Ruth Montgomery, herald of the new age: Herald Of The New Age
By Ruth Shick Montgomery, Joanne Garland. 1986
Hertig asserts that both the American and Canadian governments are intentionally misleading their citizens about the Pentagon's unprecedented plans to…
weaponize space, about the new Russian and Chinese nuclear missile build-ups, and about the destruction of important, long-standing arms control agreements. Other topics covered are why the so-called U.S. missile "defence" system is really about establishing a U.S. first-strike-from-space capability, why both Paul Martin and Stephen Harper want to join in George W. Bush's program, and how all these factors may be leading to a rapidly increasing danger of a nuclear apocalypse. 2004.Recollections of Rifleman Bowlby: Italy 1944 (Famous Regiments)
By Alex Bowlby. 1989
The battalion in which Bowlby served was renowned throughout the Eighth army, but luck deserted it after the North African…
campaign. Stripped of its hard core of regulars it was sent as heavy infantry to Italy, instead of the specialised role for which it had been trained, and lost its first and second battles. Bowlby describes exactly how men behave when the heat is on, and his account of life in an infantry platoon in Italy 1944. 1989." Il ne se passe pas une journée sans que nous soyons sollicités par des images, des films, des livres,…
des messages appartenant à un autre monde : celui des esprits désincarnés. Le présent livre Quand l'au-delà se manifeste n'est pas là pour effrayer. Bien au contraire, il aidera le lecteur à mieux saisir toute la portée des nombreuses manifestations des pensionnaires de l'au-delà. " -- 4e de couv.Proud spirit: lessons, insights & healing from "The voice of the spirit world"
By Rosemary Altea. 1998
Spiritual medium Altea takes the reader farther along the path of her personal cosmology. She explains how the living affect…
the dead's happiness and well-being, discusses reincarnation, and whether souls heal emotionally and spiritually after death. Provides dozens of stories about the lives and deaths of real people, and shares the insights and processes that helped heal her own wounds. Sequel to "The eagle and the rose". Some descriptions of violence. 1998.Le Royal 22e Régiment, 1914-1999
By Serge Bernier. 1999
Messages de l'au-delà: la vie sur Terre et celle de l'après-mort
By Serge Girard. 1990
Voici le témoignage d'un medium que les Esprits ont utilisé comme intermédiaire pour livrer leurs points de vue sur plusieurs…
aspects de la vie humaine et terrestre et surtout pour nous raconter ce qui leur est arrivé dans l'après-mort. 1990.Philosophie maçonnique (Spiritualités)
By Marc Halévy. 2009
Phoenix immortal
By Ian West. 2006
An ordinary working man, Ian West had always balanced an interest in spirituality and out-of-the ordinary experiences with a healthy…
dose of common sense and even scepticism. But his world was turned upside down when, during a regressive hypnosis, he realised that in a past life he had been Lady Jane Grey, the tragic 'nine-days' queen' who was executed at the age of 16 in 1554; in addition, he was able to tap into at least two other past lives. What had seemed like a series of random coincidences now made sense and began to colour his life and relationships, leading to an ongoing reassessment of Man's connections to God and his fellow beings. 2006.For more than forty years, the U.S. government, through various military and intelligence agencies, has invested millions in classified programs…
that study the role of mental telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition and other forms of extrasensory perception (ESP) as a means of intelligence collection for military and defense purposes. Jacobsen tells the story of these programs, using interviews with the core group of individuals--including former Defense Department scientists, military officers, CIA analysts and researchers, an Apollo 14 astronaut, government psychics, and members of the Aviary--who ran these phenomena programs at the highest level of government. A story about how far man will journey in search of improbable and mysterious things--with documentation showing which of these improbable things might actually exist. 2017.Par 4 chemins
By Jacques Languirand. 1989
Parachutées en terre ennemie: Portraits D'espionnes
By Amélie De Maupeou, Monika Siedentopf. 2008
1942 : Winston Churchill autorise le recrutement de femmes, plus adaptées à certaines missions délicates que lance le Special Operations…
Executive (SOE), une organisation secrète destinée à soutenir la résistance européenne à l'ennemi nazi. On les veut vives, intelligentes, courageuses, audacieuses, et séduisantes si possible ! C'est ainsi que les trente-neuf candidates de la section F viennent d'horizons multiples à l'image même de leurs motivations. Leur histoire pleine de rebondissements et, pour treize d'entre elles, terriblement dramatique est étrangement méconnue en France. 2008.