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The true Intrepid: Sir William Stephenson and the unknown agents
By Bill Macdonald. 1998
Sir William Stephenson is regarded as a founder of the CIA and of the British Security Coordination (BSC). True to…
his occupation as a spy during World War 2 he has remained a mysterious figure. Macdonald documents Stephenson's early life and talks with former members of the BSC: secretaries, covert operatives, and cipher clerks. 1998.Conduct unbecoming: the story of the murder of Canadian prisoners of war in Normandy
By Howard Margolian. 1998
Shortly after the allies landed at Normandy more than 150 Canadian Prisoners of War were murdered by German soldiers. Margolian…
examines how both the Canadians and the Germans ended up where they were. 1998.Unauthorized action: Mountbatten and the Dieppe Raid
By Brian Loring Villa. 1994
On August 19, 1942, the storming of Dieppe, one of the most memorable events of World War Two, took place.…
On that day over 3,000 Canadian soldiers and officers were killed, wounded or captured. Villa examines why the raid was executed when it was seen as having not much hope of succeeding, and who was responsible. The British chiefs of the Army, Navy, and Air Force are studied along with the Chief of Combined Operations, Lord Louis Mountbatten. 1994.Love, Otto: the legacy of Anne Frank
By Cara Wilson, Otto Frank. 1995
In 1959, inspired by the story of Anne Frank, 14-year-old Cara Wilson began a correspondence with Anne's father Otto which…
lasted for 22 years. She frequently asked for Frank's opinions about her problems, and presents his thoughtful responses as well as his opinions and philosophies. She also describes her journey to the Frank's "hiding place" and to Otto's home in 1979. 1995.Survival in Auschwitz
By Primo Levi. 1958
Where light and shadow meet: a memoir
By Erika Rosenberg, Emilie Schindler. 1997
The woman who married Oskar Schindler tells the true story of their life together, what they did to save the…
Jews in their factories, and how this led to "Schindler's List". This is the story of a woman's daily acts of bravery during Hitler's reign and how it mattered. Uniform title: Memorias.Victory at Falaise: the soldiers' story
By Shelagh Whitaker, Terry Copp, W. Denis Whitaker. 2000
After the end of the Battle of Normandy, the Allied forces turned north to pursue the remnants of two German…
army groups before retreating east. The ensuing battle around Falaise inflicted many losses on the Germans, yet many managed to escape. The authors re-examine the battle from both perspectives to discover the reasons behind the missed opportunities and the flawed victory. 2000.Dieppe
By W. Denis Whitaker. 1992
The sound of war: memoirs of a CBC correspondent
By Peter Stursberg. 1993
The Battle of the Huertgen Forest
By Charles B. Macdonald. 1963
An electrifying account of carnage and bravery... In September 1944, three months after the invasion of Normandy, the Allied armies…
prepared to push the German forces back into their homeland. Just south of the city of Aachen, elements of the U.S. First Army began an advance through the imposing Huertgen Forest. Instead of retreating, as the Allied command anticipated, the German troops prepared an elaborate defense of Huertgen, resulting in a struggle where tanks, infantry, and artillery dueled at close range. The battle for the forest ended abruptly in December, when a sudden German offensive through the Ardennes to the south forced the Allied armies to fall back, regroup, and start their attack again, this time culminating in the collapse of the Nazi regime in May 1945.Men of Invention and Industry
By Samuel Smiles.
Canadian Tire was founded by A.J. and John Billes in 1922 and grew to become a national institution. In 1986,…
one of A.J.'s sons decided to sell his company shares to a group of Canadian Tire dealers, sparking a feud with his sister, Martha. 1990 winner of the National Business Book Award. Strong language.Voices of a war remembered: an oral history of Canadians in World War Two
By Bill McNeil. 1991
These interviews with service and medical personnel, news reporters and photographers as well as workers and wives who remained at…
home provide a vivid picture of Canadian life during the war years.The guest children: the story of the British child evacuees sent to Canada during WW II
By Geoffrey Bilson. 1988
During World War II, more than 7000 children were evacuated from Britain to Canada. Their fears and joys in this…
new country, as well as their difficulty in adjusting after their return to Britain, are revealed in these first-person narratives. 1988.The guns of victory: a soldier's eye view, Belgium, Holland, and Germany, 1944-45
By George G Blackburn. 1996
Blackburn continues the story of the First Canadian Army's 4th Field Regiment. After the battle for Normandy, they pursue the…
German army through the Netherlands and Belgium, opening the Scheldt estuary. They endure the bitter winter of 1945, then fight in the Battle of the Rhineland through to ultimate victory. Some strong language and some descriptions of violence. 1996.A two tiered existence
By Samantha Kane. 1998
A Two Tiered Existence relates the life of Sam Hashimi - who hit the headlines in 1990 with his notorious…
take-over bid for Sheffield United football club - and the successful transformation of Sam into Samantha. Spanning two broken marriages, the traumatic loss of children, hospitalization and imprisonment, it is the story of a search for identity that would finally come into conflict with the conventional life of husband, father and businessman.War in the Deep: Pacific Submarine Action in World War II
By Edwin P. Hoyt. 1978
No one ever lived more dangerously than those who took to the depths of the Pacific Ocean in submarines during…
World War II. In this book the well-known author Edwin P. Hoyt tells the exciting story of those perilous days when submariners of the U. S. navy, at first outnumbered by their Japanese enemies, put to sea in outmoded boats armed with faulty torpedoes. War in the Deep recounts hazardous adventure after adventure experienced by both Americans and Japanese. It follows the comeback of American submarines and their daring forays that led to their vital role in the economic strangulation of Japan.An Eye for an Eye
By John Sack. 1997
Where birds don't sing
By Alan Clegg. 1999
In the second part of this wartime trilogy, a headmaster of Dutch-Jewish descent uses his dead father's diary to piece…
together what happened to his family in Auschwitz, some fifty years earlier.I don't know what to say: how to help and support someone who is dying
By Rob Buckman, Ruth Gallop, John Martin. 1988
Dr. Buckman suggests helpful ways to understand and approach different situations which will confront a dying friend or family member.…
He outlines the range of emotions experienced by both the dying and the survivors. 1988.