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Father, soldier, son: memoir of a platoon leader in Vietnam
Par Nathaniel Tripp. 1996
A writer's account of his combat experiences as an infantry platoon leader in Vietnam. Depicts the deteriorating morale of American…
forces following the Tet Offensive in 1968. He interweaves stories of home and family with his war recollections. Includes strong language, violence, and sex. c1996.Cyanide in my shoe
Par Josephine Butler. 1991
Dr Butler, French educated and with a medical degree from the Sorbonne, was recruited by Churchill as the sole woman…
in his "Secret Circle", twelve intelligence agents who answered only to him. Flown more than fifty times into occupied France, arrested by the Gestapo for insulting two officers and under constant threat of discovery and death, here is the dramatic story of an Englishwoman who led a Resistance group. She describes both the inner circles who planned the war and the ordinary people of an invaded land. 1991.Big wing: the biography of Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory
Par Bill Newton Dunn. 1992
The biography provides an account of one airman's very distinguished career, a man who did not survive the war. Known…
throughout the RAF as 'L-M', he commanded one of the two main Fighter Groups during the Battle of Britain. He later rose to be C-in-C Fighter Command and commanded the Allied air attack on Dieppe in 1942. 1992.Elsie and Mairi go to war: two extraordinary women on the Western Front
Par Diane Atkinson. 2009
Elsie Knocker, 30, a divorced mother of one, and Mairi Gooden-Chisholm, an upper-class Scottish teenager, found their calling in Pervyse,…
Belgium during World War I. They drove packed frontline ambulances and nursed wounded soldiers in the midst of shelling and gravely unhygienic conditions. The startling end of the women's friendship remains the subject of speculation. Some descriptions of violence. 2009.Kids of Kabul: living bravely through a never-ending war
Par Deborah Ellis. 2012
What has happened to Afghanistan's children since the fall of the Taliban in 2001? In 2011, Deborah Ellis went to…
Kabul to find out. She interviewed children who spoke about their lives now. They are still living in a country torn apart by war, and violence and oppression still exist, particularly affecting the lives of girls, but the kids are surviving with courage and optimism. Some descriptions of violence. Grades 4-7. 2012.Knights of the air: Canadian fighter pilots in the First World War
Par David L Bashow. 2000
More than 13, 000 Canadian men flew with the British flying services during the First World War and at least…
171 of them became ace scout or fighter pilots. Of the twenty-six Empire aces with thirty or more claims, ten were Canadian. They were the knights of the air. 2000.Knife fights: a memoir of modern war in theory and practice
Par John A Nagl. 2014
An influential Army officer traces the Gulf War experiences that shaped his perspectives on the changing nature of conventional combat…
and his views about terrorism, citing his role in co-authoring the military's new counterinsurgency field manual. 2014.Just Raoul: adventures in the French resistance
Par James Bacque. 1990
Bacque explores the actions and motivations of Raoul Laporterie, the leader of a very successful resistance operation in France during…
the German occupation in the Second World War. Laporterie was the mayor of the village of Bascons and organized his family and townspeople into a unit which is credited with saving the lives of 1600 refugees, including Sephardic Jews, Catholic nuns, French soldiers, Allied flyers, and even German prisoners of war. 1990.Journey beyond Samarkand
Par Yasushi Inoue. 1971
Bulletproof: one marine's ferocious account of close combat behind enemy lines
Par Robert Jobson, Matt Croucher. 2009
The life of Lance Corporal Matt Croucher, a Royal Marine with 40 Commando, is a life of bullets, blood, and…
loyalty, of lives saved and lives taken. A raw recruit at 19, he was one of the first 200 Allied soldiers to invade Iraq as part of an elite force of British Marines and US Special Forces in 2003. 2009.Joey Jacobson's war: a Jewish Canadian airman in the Second World War
Par Peter J Usher. 2018
Joey Jacobson, a young Jewish man from Westmount on the Island of Montreal, trained as a navigator and bomb-aimer in…
Western Canada. On arriving in England he was assigned to No. 106 Squadron, a British unit tasked with the bombing of Germany. Tells, in his own words, why he enlisted, his understanding of strategy, tactics, and the effectiveness of the air war at its lowest point, how he responded to the inevitable battle stress, and how he became both a hopeful idealist and a seasoned airman. Jacobson's written legacy as a serviceman is impressive in scope and depth and provides a lively and intimate account of a Jewish Canadian's life in the air and on the ground, written in the intensity of the moment, unfiltered by the memoirist's reflection, revision, or hindsight. Accompanying excerpts from his father's diary show the maturation of the relationship between father and son in a dangerous time. 2018.Janusz Zurakowski: legend in the skies
Par Bill Zuk, Janusz Zurakowski. 2004
Zurakowski was an aeronautical engineer, World War II combat pilot, squadron leader, and an aerobatic performer. He flew over 60…
types of aircraft throughout his life and is one of the few pilots to have invented an aerobatic manoeuvre. In 1952, he came to Canada as the test pilot for the CF-100, Canada's first jet fighter, and the legendary but doomed Avro Arrow. Some strong language. 2004.Jerusalem: the contested city (The modern scholar)
Par F. E Peters. 2003
New York University professor F.E. Peters delivers a course that will take you on a journey through the fascinating history…
of Jerusalem. As you explore the myriad contributions made to the city by the Jews, Christians, and Muslims, you'll come to understand why each religion reveres this holy place. 2003.J.D. Salinger: a life
Par Kenneth Slawenski. 2010
Biography of Jerome David Salinger (1919-2010) examines connections between his life and his writing. Discusses Salinger's privileged youth, service in…
World War II, love for Oona O'Neill and other women, work for the New Yorker, and seclusion after publication of "The Catcher in the Rye" (DC00408). 2010.Japan and the world since 1868 (International Relations And The Great Powers Ser.)
Par Michael A Barnhart. 1995
This text presents a survey of Japan's foreign relations since the Meiji Restoration of 1868. The author describes three searches…
for security: the search for sovereignty; the search for empire and the search for comprehensive security. 1995.I is for infidel: from holy war to holy terror: 18 years inside Afghanistan
Par Kathy Gannon. 2005
In 1986 Kathy Gannon headed to Afghanistan as a foreign correspondent, and for the next eighteen years she witnessed its…
tragic opera: the final collapse of communism followed by bitterly feuding warlords being driven from power by the Taliban; the subsequent arrival of Arabs and exiles, among them Osama bin Laden; and the transformation of the country into the staging post for a global jihad. She also observed the terrible, unforeseen consequences of Western intervention, the ongoing suffering of ordinary Afghans, and the ability of the most corrupt of the warlords to reinvent and reinsert themselves into successive governments. Some descriptions of violence. c2005.ISIS exposed: beheadings, slavery, and the hellish reality of radical Islam
Par Erick Stakelbeck. 2015
Terrorism expert Erick Stakelbeck pulls back the curtain on ISIS, the violent terrorist organization spreading death and hate in the…
Middle East. The rise of ISIS took the White House by complete surprise: President Obama called the group "JV," then was forced to reassess when ISIS began executing innocent American journalists. Now radicalized Americans and Europeans are joining ISIS's ranks. So who is ISIS? How powerful are they? And are they a threat to the homeland? 2015.Istanbul: a tale of three cities
Par Bettany Hughes. 2017
Istanbul has always been a place where stories and histories collide. From the Koran to Shakespeare, this city with three…
names--Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul--resonates as an idea and a place, real and imagined. 2017.Israel: a history
Par Martin Gilbert. 1998
Israel is a small and relatively young country, but its turbulent history has placed it squarely at the centre of…
the world stage this century. Martin Gilbert traces its history, from its beginnings with the dramatic declaration of Statehood in May 1948, through the many subsequent conflicts and political watersheds. Using contemporary documents and eyewitness accounts, drawing on his own intimate knowledge of the country and its people, the author weaves together all these dramatic events into a seamless narrative. 1998.Iraq (Major world nations)
Par J. P Docherty. 1999
Explores the people, history, culture, land, and economy of this Middle Eastern country, once called Mesopotamia, which is considered the…
"cradle of civilization." Also briefly discusses its modern wars with neighbours Iran and Kuwait. Grades 5-8. c1999.