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By Norman Lewis. 2002
Norman Lewis arrived in Naples as an Intelligence Officer attached to the American Fifth Army. By 1944 the city's inhabitants…
were so destitute that all the tropical fish in the aquarium had been devoured, and numbers of respectable women had been driven to prostitution. The mafia gradually became so indispensable to the occupying forces that it succeeded in regaining its former power. Despite the cruelty and suffering he encountered, Lewis writes in the diary, "were I given the chance to be born again, Italy would be the country of my choice." 2002.By Max Hastings. 2008
A masterly narrative history of the climactic battles of the Second World War. The battle for Japan that ended many…
months after the battle for Europe involved enormous naval, military and air operations from the borders of India to the most distant regions of China. The great naval battle of Leyte Gulf; the war in China; the re-conquest of Burma by the British Army under General Slim; the Marines on Iwojima and Okinawa; LeMay's Super-fortress assaults on Japan; the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; the kamikaze pilots of Japan; the Soviet blitzkrieg in Manchuria in the last days of the war; and the terrible final acts across Japanese-occupied Asia. 2008.By Claudia Koonz. 1986
By Madeleine Gagnon. 2000
L'auteure analyse les propos de femmes qui luttent quotidiennement pour vivre, s'éduquer, travailler, et élever leurs enfants, alors qu'elles sont…
plongées dans la réalité de la guerre. L'ouvrage se veut le pendant écrit de la série du même nom diffusée à la chaîne culturelle de Radio Canada. 2000.By Mathieu Guidère. 2008
By Jean-Paul Picaper, Ludwig Norz. 2004
Issus des amours coupables de soldats allemands et de femmes du pays pendant l'Occupation, ces "enfants maudits", maintenant à l'âge…
de la retraite, veulent rompre le silence et enfin sortir de la clandestinité. Soixante ans après la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, ils témoignent ici pour la première fois. Ce livre est pour eux un espoir. 2004.By Robert N Clements, B. D Tennyson. 2013
A complete history of the 25th Canadian infantry battalion, which was recruited in the autumn and winter of 1914–15 and…
served overseas from spring 1915 until spring 1919. The author, who served in the battalion throughout that period and rose from private to captain, wrote the story many years after the war, based on his personal memories and experiences. As such, his story reflects two unique perspectives on Canadian military history – the remarkably fresh recollections and anecdotes of a veteran, and the outlook of a man eager to share what his generation contributed to the nation’s history, character, and identity. 2013.By Linda Robinson. 2004
Special Forces soldiers have been at the forefront of America's counterterrorist campaigns in recent years, but little is known about…
the brave, seasoned individuals from America's heartland who belong to this secretive unit. Veteran journalist Linda Robinson gained access to their closed community, travelling with them on the frontlines and interviewing them at their home bases. She describes their training, doctrine and methods, and recounts the missions of this post-Vietnam generation of commandos in Panama, El Salvador, Desert Storm, Somalia, the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq. 2004.By Tony Foster. 1986
Major-General Kurt Meyer of the German armed forces during World War II was charged as a war criminal for the…
murders of 43 soldiers. A court martial sentenced Meyer to death although no evidence was presented to prove he ordered the killings. 1987 winner of the Canadian Authors Association Literary Award. 1986.By Andrew Roberts. 2009
'Masters and Commanders' describes how four men shaped the grand strategy of the West during the Second World War. The…
book traces the mutual suspicion and admiration, the rebuffs and the charm, the often explosive disagreements and wary reconciliations which characterized the relationships between them. 2009, c2008.By Jim Shepard. 2016
Aron a 8 ans lorsqu'il se retrouve enfermé, avec toute sa famille, dans le ghetto de Varsovie. Pour ce petit…
garçon pauvre, habitué à se faire corriger, le ghetto est un autre terrain de jeux, nouveau et excitant. Mais très vite, l'horreur s'installe au coeur de la vie de tous les jours. La faim, le typhus font rage. Comment survivre ? Aron fait l'apprentissage du vol et du mensonge. Il découvre, mêlés l'un à l'autre, le sens de l'héroïsme et le goût de la trahison. Et rencontre l'homme qui va décider de son sort : le directeur de l'orphelinat, Janusz Korczak. Désormais, Aron a une mission. Saura-t-il se montrer à la hauteur de ce que l'on attend de lui ? 2016. Titre uniforme: The book of Aron.By Jean-Louis Morgan, Alain Stanké. 2017
Rares sont les témoignages des étrangers de l'ombre qui, au prix des mêmes périls que les résistants français, ont aidé…
ces derniers à s'approvisionner en armes, en argent et en faux papiers. Ces étrangers, dont nombre de Canadiens francophones, relevaient du SOE et du MI9. Frôlant cent fois la mort, ils ont prêté main forte aux maquis bretons lors d'actes de sabotage, ont assuré les communications avec les Alliés et exfiltré, principalement au cours de l'année 1944, quelque 135 aviateurs dont les appareils étaient tombés en territoire occupé. L'un de ces réseaux était animé par le sous-officier québécois Lucien Dumais, assisté de son compatriote Raymond Labrosse. Son nom ? Le réseau Shelburne. L'action de ces hommes et de ces femmes aura permis d'évacuer, en tout, 307 agents et soldats alliés. Les exploits peu croyables de ces héros - parmi lesquels David Birkin, père de Jane, lieutenant de canonnière - dormaient dans les archives des services secrets ou dans la mémoire des survivants. Les témoignages recueillis dans ce livre révèlent enfin au grand jour cet épisode crucial de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. 2017.By Jean-Louis Morgan, Alain Stanké. 2014
Ce jour-là, à Juno Beach, ils furent des milliers à perdre la vie. Leur bravoure fut déterminante pour la libération…
de l'Europe. Nombre de ces combattants de l'autre bord de l'Atlantique avaient une lointaine parenté avec les Français qu'ils venaient secourir. Francophones ou anglophones, tous étaient canadiens. Témoignages à l'appui, Alain Stanké et Jean-Louis Morgan racontent l'épopée oubliée des fantassins et officiers canadiens engagés dans l'opération Overlord, mais aussi celle de ces Normands dont plus de vingt mille furent les victimes collatérales des bombardements. Soixante-dix ans après l'événement, Maurice Tremblay révèle qu'il fut le premier à soigner le parachutiste américain John Steele, resté accroché au clocher de Sainte-Mère-Église. Charly Forbes, lieutenant d'infanterie devenu le combattant canadien le plus décoré de la guerre, livre enfin ses souvenirs. Et le colonel Ernest Côté, aujourd'hui centenaire, explique comment il devint l'un des héros de la bataille de Juno Beach... Documents classés secrets , souvenirs de pilotes, exploits peu croyables des agents canadiens du MI9 et du SOE, redécouverte d'un souterrain par les enfants qui s'y cachèrent... Autant de récits émouvants et authentiques, livrés souvent pour la première fois. 2014.By Philip Ziegler. 1995
By Patricia Burns. 2012
The Second World War came hard on the heels of a devastating Depression in which families struggled to survive. Burns…
paints a poignant portrait of a city coping with the demands of war. Montrealers, along with other Canadians, were being asked for more sacrifice, but this time it would include sending their loved ones off to war. 2012.By Robert Young Pelton. 2006
Licensed to kill: hired guns in the war on terror spanning four continents and three years, describes the contractor murders…
in Fallujah; the Deep South contractor training camps where ex-Special Operations soldiers and even small town cops learn the ropes; and the grim Central African prison where contractors turned failed mercenaries pay a steep price. The United States has encouraged the use of the private sector in all facets of the War on Terror, and Pelton deconstructs the most controversial events and introduces the pivotal players. Some descriptions of sex, some descriptions of violence, and explicit strong language. 2007, c2006.By Ross N Hebb. 2014
With personal letters gathered from public archives and the relatives of those who fought in the First World War, historian…
Ross Hebb tells the story of Canadian soldiers, from recruitment to deployment to return, in their own words. Organized chronologically, the letters describe crossing the Atlantic, training in England, the confusion and anticipation leading up to combat, and for some, the journey home. c2014.Pilot Officer J R A Hodgson was a member of RAF Bomber Command from 1941-1943. His brother, David, uses letters…
written during these years by the young officer to explore the world of an airman in the Second World War and captures a range of emotions, the reasons for joining up, training and how he copes with danger. 1985.By Kenneth G Baird, Harvelyn Baird McInnis. 2002
Major Kenneth Baird was a Prisoner-Of-War in Japan during World War II. He kept a diary and wrote letters -…
that were never sent - to his wife Molly and daughter Harvelyn, recording misery, sickness, brutality, and death during almost four years of imprisonment. 2002.By Pierre Berton. 2001
Between 1899 and 1953, three generations of young Canadians marched off to distant battlefields to fight in four different wars.…
From the African veldt to the fields of Flanders, the beaches of Dieppe, and the Korean highlands. The half-century also saw Canada transformed from an agricultural nation beholden to the British Empire to an industrial powerhouse closely linked to the United States. 2001.