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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 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.The book of revenge: a blues for Yugoslavia
Par Dragan Todorović. 2006
Serb Dragan Todorovic goes to Belgrade as the editor of a cultural magazine, but his constant clashes with the system…
end in his being drafted into the army. Dragan survives his tour of duty, but his return to Belgrade is unsettling - everything is changing, friendships are collapsing, conversations are guarded, and bit by bit, the country he knows and loves is being torn apart. Some strong language. 2006.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.Deadlock in Korea: Canadians at war, 1950-1953
Par Ted Barris. 1999
The story of the over 30,000 Canadians who volunteered to serve during the Korean war is often lost in the…
shadow of other wars Canada has participated in. But from 1950-1953 Canadian men served a vital role in the war against Communism in Korea. All branches of the Canadian military were represented and they contributed greatly to the war effort. Here, the experiences of the Canadian men who fought are remembered and shared. 1999.Book of longing
Par Leonard Cohen. 2006
A collection of musings, jottings, quatrains, lyrics, prose meditations and offhand epigrams, including previously unpublished poems dating as far back…
as 1970. Cohen displays both a surface humility and an underlying self-confidence as he reflects on women, Zen doctrine, his own advancing age, and the legacy of the '60s. Descriptions of sex and strong language. 2006.A wild peculiar joy: selected poems, 1945-89 (The Modern Canadian poets)
Par Irving Layton. 1989
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. 2005.19 varieties of gazelle: poems of the Middle East
Par Naomi Shihab Nye. 2002
Over four dozen of her own poems about the Middle East and about being an Arab American living in the…
United States. Nye writes of figs and olives, fathers' blessings and grandmothers' hands. She writes of Palestinians, living and dead, of war, and of peace. 2002.100 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.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.The tent
Par Margaret Atwood. 2006
A collection of short stories, including parodies of fairy tales and fables, a tale which encapsulates the divide between men…
and women, and an account of the remarkably thuggish population of a small, out-of-the-way island. Atwood dissects our habit of seeing the world in terms of "we" and "them," and our refusal to face the facts of environmental degradation. 2006.Thanks and giving all year long: Marlo Thomas and friends
Par Marlo Thomas, Christopher Cerf. 2004
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.The Penelopiad: The Myth Of Penelope And Odysseus (The myths series)
Par Margaret Atwood. 2005
For Penelope, wife of Odysseus, maintaining a kingdom while her husband fights in the Trojan War is not easy -…
already aggrieved by the shocking behaviour of her cousin Helen, she must bring up her wayward son, face down scandalous rumours, and keep over a hundred lusty, greedy and bloodthirsty suitors at bay. When Odysseus finally returns home and slaughters the suitors, he also brutally hangs Penelope's twelve beloved maids. What were his motives, and what was Penelope herself really up to? 2005.Everyday eclipses
Par Roger McGough. 2002
These poems contain Roger McGough's own spin on innocence and experience. Poems about his docker father and his new daughter;…
poems about how, in his dreams, he gave the idea of "Hey Jude" to McCartney and advised Dylan to go electric; and poems about sad music and the sad eclipses of everyday life. 2002.Blackbird singing: poems and lyrics 1965-1999
Par Adrian Mitchell, Paul McCartney. 2001
A highly personal collection from one of the major cultural figures of the last 50 years, containing the lyrics to…
many of the best-loved Paul McCartney songs, and also poems that have never before been seen, including moving elegies to his late wife, Linda.Kid (Faber Pocket Poetry Ser.)
Par Simon Armitage. 1999