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The Liberation Campaign for Holland, a series of fierce battles during the last three months of the war, was bittersweet…
- a nation's freedom was won and the war concluded, but the fighting cost Canada over 6,000 casualties. Drawing upon official records and veteran memories, Zuehlke brings to life this concluding chapter in the story of Canada in World War II. Explicit descriptions of violence and strong language. Bestseller. 2010. (Canadian Battle Series)On the triangle run
Par James Barrett Lamb. 1986
Lamb tells the story of our navy's battles in the waters off Canada's coasts during World War II. The navy…
struggled against the fearsome elements of the North Atlantic as well as the dreaded German U-boats. 1986.On pills and needles: the relentless fight to save my son from opioid addiction
Par Rick Van Warner. 2018
Through his harrowing personal story, Rick Van Warner exposes the common causes of opioid addiction, effective and ineffective ways it…
has been treated, and how families can walk alongside loved ones who are dealing with the realities of addiction. 2018.Le camp des femmes: Ravensbruck (Collection Dossiers et documents)
Par Christian Bernadac. 1980
Ravensbruck est unique. Seul camp de concentration réservé aux femmes, il fut un enclos de travail et d'extermination pour des…
dizaines de milliers de femmes. L'auteur a préféré laisser la parole à celles qui furent les personnages réels de cette monstrueuse tragédie de l'histoire, les déportées. Quelques descriptions de violence. 1980.Faim de vivre: témoignage
Par Jérôme Ferrer. 2018
Quand le cancer s'invite à table, même un grand chef se sent démuni. Jérôme Ferrer l'a vécu lorsque Virginie, avec…
qui il s'apprêtait à fonder une famille, a appris qu'elle avait un cancer du poumon de stade 4. Plongé dans un combat injuste, il a affronté la maladie avec les armes qui sont les siennes : le plaisir de cuisiner des plats assaisonnés de souvenirs et de tendresse. Son témoignage est un récit touchant, une réflexion sur le pouvoir d'une simple recette de tomates farcies, une belle histoire d'accompagnement et un généreux hommage à la ' faim de vivre ' de ceux qui s'aiment. Faim de vivre trouvera un bel écho parmi tous ceux qui accompagnent une personne atteinte du cancer et se sentent impuissants à la soutenir. 2018.Northern Nurses II: more nursing adventures from Canada's North
Par Karen J Scott, Joan E Kieser. 2005
A true account of nurses in Canada's north. Describes the enormous challenges faced in these regions, and the limits to…
travel and communications caused by the weather. The scope of situations described in the delivery of health care to these communities is nearly unimaginable to non-northerners, as are the talents, creativity and determination needed to succeed in such a harsh and unforgiving environment. Sequel to "Northern nurses: true nursing adventures from Canada's north" (DC25082). 2005.One of the world's top surgeons, an advocate of democratic medical services, and an international humanitarian, Norman Bethune invented the…
mobile blood transfusion unit for the Spanish Civil War. He is revered in China as a hero, where he was a personal friend of Chairman Mao Zedong, and where his unceasing and inventive work established a lasting bond between his adopted people and this heroic Canadian. 2004Norman Bethune (The Canadians)
Par Roderick Stewart. 1974
North Atlantic run: the Royal Canadian Navy and the battle for the convoys
Par Marc Milner. 1985
Norman Bethune (Extraordinary Canadians)
Par Adrienne Clarkson. 2011
Reviled as a communist by some, revered as a humanitarian by others, Norman Bethune was a surgeon, medical innovator, and…
political activist who deployed his skills on the battlefields of Spain and China in the 1930s. His prodigious talents included inventing surgical instruments, mobile blood-transfusion units, teaching, and advocating for social justice at home and abroad. Includes violence. 2011.No dream is too high: life lessons from a man who walked on the moon
Par Buzz Aldrin, Ken Abraham. 2016
No job for a lady: the autobiography of M. Phyllis Lose, V. M. D
Par M. Phyllis Lose, Daniel Pratt Mannix. 1979
Night witches: the untold story of Soviet women in combat
Par Bruce Myles. 1990
In 1941, as the Nazi hordes swept eastward into the Soviet Union, the desperate call went out for female volunteers…
to join the Russian air force. Making up three regiments, the lives, exploits, loves and fears of these women are captured here - the pilots whom the Germans came to dread as the "Night witches". 1990.Niels Bohr et la physique quantique (Points. 145)
Par François Lurçat. 2001
Une tentative, par moments philosophique, pour rendre l'oeuvre de Bohr compréhensible à des lecteurs qui ne savent rien de la…
physique. "Un appendice donne des précisions destinées à celui qui a des rudiments de mathématiques du niveau de l'enseignement secondaire". 2001.Never say die: new adventures from the country vet
Par David Perrin. 2006
Veterinarian Dave Perrin is building his dream home in the peaceful community of Lister, B.C., and puts in overtime to…
deal with some of the most improbable clients and frustrating cases of his career: snakes with indigestion, alcoholic dogs, hogs that beep, and heifers from hell. His loving dog, Lug, makes himself useful in desperate times. 2006.Naples '44: an intelligence officer in the Italian labyrinth
Par 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.Nemesis: the battle for Japan, 1944-45
Par 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.Naked imperfection: a memoir
Par Gillian Deacon. 2014
What if you’re doing everything right - living a healthy, virtuous, conscientious life - and something goes terribly wrong? Gillian…
Deacon was the paragon of virtue, the standard-bearer for how to live responsibly on the Earth. So when the all-natural, vegetarian, yoga-practising, marathon-running mother of three young boys was diagnosed with breast cancer, the world stopped making sense. This is her story. c2014.My life with trees: a sylvan journey
Par Gary L Saunders. 2015
While organized by tree species like a reference book, Saunders' essays actually impart equal parts natural and personal history. And…
like the best sylvan essayists of earlier generations (Thoreau, Leopold), Saunders draws greater truths about our relationship with nature - and with each other - out of what on first glance might appear to be recitals of botanical facts or yarns about adventures past. A close reading promises not only to expand one's understanding of the ecology of the forest, but also to offer a model for how we might better live our lives with trees. 2015.My glory was I had such friends: a memoir
Par Amy Silverstein. 2017
Memoirist Amy Silverstein tells the story of an extraordinary group of women who surrounded and supported her through the long,…
emotional fight to stay alive as she waited for her second heart transplant in twenty-five years. 2017.