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Par Bruce Gamble. 2000
The biography of legendary warrior, lover, drinker and WWII hero Gregory Boyington. Blessed with inveterate luck, he lived a life…
that went beyond the most imaginative fiction. After being "encouraged" to leave the Marine corps, he went on to become a WWII hero as a nonconforming squadron leader. 2000.Par Ernie Pyle. 1944
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.Par Timothy Ferris. 1988
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.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.Par Donald Serrell Thomas. 1978
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.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.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.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.Thorne writes for nonscientists and scientists who are not physicists in a quest to share his insights about "where and…
how relativity fails and what replaces it." He combines established principles of physics with imaginative speculation to examine concepts, such as black holes, that were developed theoretically long before technology was able to provide any observable evidence. 1994.Par William Murray. 1970
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.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.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.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.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.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.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.