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The ghosts of Medak Pocket: the story of Canada's secret war
Par Carol Off. 2004
In 1993, Canadian peacekeepers in Croatia were plunged into the most significant fighting Canada had seen since the Korean War.…
In September 1993, in a tiny corner of Croatia known as Medak Pocket, a unit of Canadian peacekeepers planted themselves between besieged Serbs and the advancing Croat army, driving them from the area under United Nations protection. The soldiers should have returned home as heroes, but instead, they arrived under a cloud of suspicion and silence. Descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2004.The fourth power: a grand strategy for the United States in the 21st Century
Par Gary Hart. 2004
Hart, a former senator and presidential candidate, fears that containment of communism has been supplanted by a blatant strategy of…
empire as the basis of American foreign policy. He rejects what he regards as the unilateral efforts by the current administration to promote geopolitical interests. As an alternative, Hart proposes a foreign policy designed to advance the "fourth power" - that is, the power of core American values, including representative government and individual liberty. 2004.The guns of victory: a soldier's eye view, Belgium, Holland, and Germany, 1944-45
Par 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.The guns of Normandy: a soldier's eye view, France 1944
Par George G Blackburn. 1995
Blackburn follows the Canadian Army through its landing on the Normandy beaches after the D-Day attacks, and to the battles…
at Falaise and Caen. Blackburn presents a detailed description of the lives of the Canadian soldiers who fought in the battles. Some strong language.Tell no one who you are: the hidden childhood of Régine Miller
Par Walter Buchignani. 1994
The story of Régine Miller, who, as a young Jewish girl during World War II, was hidden by Belgium's underground…
movement and was the only member of her family to survive the Holocaust. Grades 5-8. c1994.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.Juno Beach: Canada's D-Day victory, June 6, 1944
Par Mark Zuehlke. 2004
On June 6, 1944, the greatest armada in history stood off Normandy and the largest amphibious invasion ever began, as…
107,000 men aboard 6,000 ships attacked the French coast. Of the 18,000 Canadians involved in storming Juno Beach, one out of every six either died or was wounded, yet they were the only Allied troops to meet their objectives. Drawing on personal diaries as well as military records, the author depicts Canada's pivotal contribution to the most critical Allied battle of World War II. 2004.A perfect hell: the forgotten story of the Canadian commandos of the Second World War
Par John Nadler. 2005
It's 1942 and Hitler's armies stand astride Europe like a colossus. Germany is winning on every front. This is the…
story of how one of the world's first commando units, put together for the invasion of Norway, helped turn the tide in Italy. Some strong language and descriptions of sex, descriptions of violence. 2005.100 cigarettes and a bottle of vodka: a memoir
Par Arthur Schaller. 1998
Arthur Schaller was eleven years old when Germany invaded Poland in 1939, a time when the reward for turning in…
a Jew was 100 cigarettes and a bottle of vodka. Separated from his family in the Warsaw Ghetto, Arthur managed to escape to the other side of the Ghetto wall, and posed until the end of the war as a Catholic orphan. Winner of the 1999 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. 1998.The Judas kiss: The Undercover Life Of Patrick Kelly
Par Michael Harris. 1995
One week after his wife plunged to her death from a 17th-floor balcony, Patrick Kelly was vacationing in Hawaii with…
his lover. The author tells of how Kelly changed from an RCMP undercover drug agent to smuggler and suspected fraud artist. Kelly was eventually convicted of the murder of his wife. 1995.Where the hell are the guns?: a soldier's eye view of the anxious years, 1939-44
Par George G Blackburn. 1997
In the final volume of his trilogy on Canada's 4th Field Regiment, Blackburn returns to its formation in 1939. He…
traces its development from a motley crew of volunteers training on old equipment -- when they had equipment at all -- to a highly skilled military unit ready for action in Normandy. Winner of the 1998 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. 1997.War: the new edition
Par Gwynne Dyer. 2004
The history and nature of war shows that it has remained unchanged as an act of mass violence, applied against…
an enemy so that he will do what you want. But the collapse of the Iron Curtain has forced a re-examination: can we move beyond it through open access to the channels of mass communication? And if terrorism is a red herring designed to preserve the military status quo, are our traditional military structures still relevant? Descriptions of violence. Some strong language. 2004, c1985.D-Day: Canadian heroes in the famous invasion of World War II (Amazing stories)
Par Tom Douglas. 2004
On June 6, 1944, a daring and ambitious invasion of Europe changed the course of World War II, eventually leading…
to the surrender of Nazi Germany. During the night, through storms and high seas, the Allied forces swept towards the beaches of Normandy in France. This is the story of the bravery, the heroism, and the sheer dumb luck of the more than 14,000 Canadians who played a crucial role in that incredible event. 2004.The incredible War of 1812: a military history
Par 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.The righteous: the unsung heroes of the Holocaust
Par Martin Gilbert. 2003
A collection of hundreds of stories of Gentiles who risked their lives to save Jews from deportation and death during…
the Holocaust. These people include the Greek Orthodox Princess Alice, who hid Jewish families in her Athens home; a Polish woman, "the Angel of Lvov," who worked closely with the Roman Catholic Church to obtain false baptism certificates; and Albanian and Bosnian Muslims, who disguised Jews to appear as members of their own families. Some descriptions of violence. 2003.More than 250,000 courageous men and women were enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II. These…
Canadians fought valiantly in every major air operation from the Battle of Britain to the bombing of Germany. Thousands lost their lives. Those who survived to tell their stories were forever changed. Here are some of their incredible stories. 2003.Waving goodbye: a collection of real life stories from World War II evacuees
Par Michael Bentick. 1999
In 1939, on the very eve of war, the government made the decision to evacuate 1.5 million children from Britain's…
towns and cities. This book contains stories and letters from people who went through those evacuation schemes. There are tales of happiness, sadness, laughter and tears. Some are still coming to terms with what they went through all those years ago.The piano war: A True Story Of Love And Survival In World War Ii
Par Graeme Friedman. 2003
August 1939. On her summer break from her studies at the Royal Academy of Music, young South African pianist Olda…
Mehr and her parents leave London to visit relatives in Eastern Europe. A dreamy holiday descends into nightmare when Germany invades Poland, and the Mehrs find themselves, as Jews, caught up in Hitler's Holocaust. For Olda, Gestapo torture and the threat of the gas chamber are relieved by letters from her boyfriend, the artist-musician-doctor, Bennie Hermer, now a captain in the South African army fighting in North Africa. After the Allied disaster at Tobruk, Ben is imprisoned in the dusty, dysentery-ridden POW camp at Benghazi. Via infrequent Red Cross messages the couple keep their love alive, until awesome daring on both their parts leads to a startling conclusion. 2003.Accidental warrior: in the front line from Normandy till victory
Par Geoffrey Picot. 1993
Accidental warrior is a vivid and exact account of how a timid and unaggressive lad of 19 is transformed by…
the inexorable pressures of war into a competent infantryman. Caught up in the battle of Normandy - one of the decisive clashes of history and perhaps the last of its kind - he saw others master the extremities of fear and copied them.The destruction of the Bismarck
Par David Jay Bercuson, Holger H Herwig. 2001
An account of the destruction of the feared but short-lived German WWII warship. The authors examine recently opened diplomatic files…
from England and America that provide new data concerning the supposedly neutral America's involvement in the hunt for the Bismarck. Also included are concise biographies of the major officers from both sides, brief histories of the major naval vessels involved, and an analysis of the crucial command decisions that sealed the Bismarck's fate. 2001.