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Brave men
Par Ernie Pyle. 1944
Carved in stone: Holocaust years -- a boy's tale
Par Manny Drukier. 1996
Drukier was forced by the Nazis to leave his native city of Lodz in Poland in 1939, at the age…
of eleven. In this book, prompted by his first visit back to Poland in fifty years, he describes what happened from that day until his emigration to North America. He tells of hiding, work in labour camps, and his day of liberation. He also tells of his friends and family and their love and will to survive. 1996.Brass buttons and silver horseshoes: stories from Canada's British war brides
Par Linda Granfield. 2002
This book tells the story of Canada's war brides. 48,000 young women met and married Canadian servicemen in Europe during…
World War II. Nothing could have prepared them for their experience in this new land. Some regretted their hasty love affairs and others enjoyed more than 50 years of happy marriage. 2002.Che Guevara (Pocket biographies)
Par Andrew Sinclair. 1998
This concise biography unravels Che's life, from his birth in 1928, the child of free-thinking radical Argentinian aristocrats, through his…
youthful membership of Accion Argentina, his training as a doctor, and action as a commander in the guerrilla war in Cuba with Fidel Castro, to his execution. 1998.Cochrane: Britannia's last sea-king
Par Donald Serrell Thomas. 1978
Castles burning: a child's life in war
Par Magda Denes. 1997
A woman's wry account of her childhood as a Jewish fugitive in Hungary during World War II. In 1939, her…
father abandoned his family for America, leaving them in poverty and peril. The author relates the harsh ordeal of wartime persecution and their eventual escape to Cuba. 1997.Captivity: 118 days in Iraq and the struggle for a world without war
Par James Loney. 2011
Iraq, November 2005. James Loney and three other men, all members of Christian Peacemaker Teams, were taken hostage at gunpoint.…
The Swords of Righteousness Brigade released videos of the men, resulting in what is likely the most publicized kidnapping of the Iraq War. One man was murdered, the rest held 118 days before being rescued. 2011.Both my legs: the love song of Howard Lovell
Par Wade Hemsworth. 1995
Howard "Babe" Lovell was a gunner in the Royal Canadian Field Artillery when he lost both of his legs in…
an artillery attack in Italy during World War II. This biography, written by his grandson, illustrates Babe's wartime experiences and the adjustments he was forced to make when he returned home to Canada. c1995.Bonds of wire: a memoir
Par Kingsley Brown. 1989
In 1942, RCAF Bomber Pilot Kingsley Brown was shot down over Holland and began his 3-year incarceration in Stalag Luft…
3, the German P.O.W. camp from which the Great Escape was launched. 1989.Blind vision: the neuroscience of visual impairment
Par Zaira Cattaneo, Tomaso Vecchi. 2011
Italian researchers examine the effects of blindness on the development and functioning of the human cognitive system. They demonstrate the…
ways other senses evolve to help compensate for the absence of sight. 2011.Atlantic rendezvous
Par William Murray. 1970
Ariel Sharon: a life
Par Mitch Ginsburg, Nir Hefez, Gadi Bloom. 2006
As a soldier, Ariel Sharon showed great devotion to his men, but often acted like a bull in a china…
shop, taking dangerous gambles that often proved disastrous, and routinely ignoring the instructions of his superiors. He displayed a lust for power and a willingness to bend the truth in that pursuit. However, Sharon was a giant figure on the Israeli political and military scene, with an enormous and long-standing impact on its history. 2006. Uniform title: Roʻeh.Apache
Par Ed Macy. 2008
Taking the reader right to the heart of the war in Afghanistan, 'Apache' is a story of courage, comradeship, technology…
and tragedy, from the cockpit of the most sophisticated fighting helicopter the world has ever known. 2008.Altimeter rising: my 50 years in the cockpit
Par Allan MacNutt, Norman Avery. 2000
Recollections of life in the cockpit attest to McNutt's fascination with aviation. Ill-equipped when he joined the RCAF during WWII,…
he persevered among his better-educated colleagues, studied hard and finally conquered the fine art of flying. Determined to be the best flyer in the business, his tale is laced with exciting adventures and misadventures. 2000.Almost a lifetime
Par John McMahon. 1995
John McMahon gives a personal account of the Second World War from Ireland through Holland, Germany, and Canada. Now living…
in British Columbia, MacMahon was born in Belfast in 1921. At the age of 19, he joined the Royal Air Force, but was shot down over occupied Holland on his first mission. Incarcerated in a POW camp in Germany, he tells of his struggle to survive behind barbed war, and his attempts after the war to find the people who helped him, his fellow POWs, and the pilot who shot his aircraft down. 1995.And no birds sang (Seal books)
Par Farley Mowat. 1979
The barbarity and futility of war transferred a swaggering, self-confident junior officer into a seasoned, cynical veteran as his regiment…
struggled to survive the 1943 Italian campaign. Bestseller. Canada Reads 2012. 1981, c1979.American sniper: the autobiography of the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history
Par Chris Kyle, Jim DeFelice, Scott McEwen. 2012
Texas ranch hand-turned-Navy SEAL recalls his career as the sniper with the most kills in U.S. military history. Describes his…
training, his four tours of duty in Iraq, and the strains of deployment on his family life. Violence and strong language. Bestseller. 2012.All we leave behind: a reporter's journey into the lives of others
Par Carol Off. 2017
Tells the gripping story of a family's desperate attempts to escape Afghan warlords, Taliban oppression, and the persecutions of refugee…
life, in hopes that both their sons and their daughters could dare to dream of peace and opportunity. In 2002, Carol Off and a CBC TV crew encountered an Afghan man with a story to tell. Asad Aryubwal became key to their documentary on the terrible power of thuggish warlords who were working arm in arm with Americans and NATO troops. When Asad publicly exposed the deeds of one particular warlord, General Abdul Rashid Dostum, it set off a chain of events from which there was no turning back. Asad, his wife, Mobina, and their five children had to flee their home. Their only chance for a peaceful life was to emigrate--yet year after year of agonizing limbo would ensue as they were thwarted by a Byzantine international bureaucracy and the decidedly unwelcoming policies of Stephen Harper's government. Winner of the 2018 British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction. Bestseller. 2017.Alias Caracalla (Témoins)
Par Daniel Cordier. 2009
Voici donc, au jour le jour, trois années de cette vie singulière qui commença pour moi le 17 juin 1940,…
avec le refus du discours de Pétain puis l'embarquement à Bayonne. J'avais 19 ans. Après deux années de formation en Angleterre, j'ai été parachuté à Montluçon le 25 juillet 1942. Destiné à être le radio de Georges Bidault, je fus choisi par Jean Moulin pour devenir son secrétaire. J'ai travaillé avec lui jusqu'à son arrestation, le 21 juin 1943. J'ai consacré beaucoup de soins à traquer la vérité pour évoquer le parcours du jeune garçon d'extrême droite que j'étais, qui, sous l'étreinte des circonstances, devient un homme de gauche. La vérité est parfois atroce. Quelques descriptions de violence. 2009.Aliments pour les yeux: un programme alimentaire pour des yeux en santé
Par Laurie Capogna, Barbara Pelletier. 2011
Dr. Laurie Capogna et Dr. Barbara Pelletier ont élaboré un guide pour améliorer la santé oculaire et prévenir, ralentir ou…
supprimer les maladies oculaires les plus communes. Muni des derniers résultats scientifiques, de conseils pratiques, d’idées de repas et de recettes… c’est un guide complet, facile à suivre sur la science et la sante. c2011.