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Killing the Bismarck: destroying the pride of Hitler's fleet
Par Iain Ballantyne. 2017
In May 1941, the German battleship Bismarck, accompanied by heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, broke out into the Atlantic to attack…
Allied shipping. The Royal Navy's pursuit and subsequent destruction of the Bismarck was an epic of naval warfare. In this new account of those dramatic events at the height of the Second World War, Ballantyne draws extensively on the graphic eye-witness testimony of veterans to construct a thrilling story, mainly from the point of view of the British battleships, cruisers, and destroyers involved. He describes the tense atmosphere as cruisers play a lethal cat-and-mouse game as they shadow Bismarck in the icy Denmark Strait. We witness the shocking destruction of the British battle cruiser HMS Hood, in which all but three of her ship's complement were killed, an event that fueled pursuing Royal Navy warships, including the battered battleship Prince of Wales, with a thirst for revenge. 2017.Gentleman Jim: the wartime story of a founder of the SAS and Special Forces
Par Lorna Almonds Windmill. 2002
The story of Jim Almonds is set in wartime England, the western desert, Italy and France, and recounts his formative…
role in the birth of the SAS. Against a backdrop of love, courage and high-risk adventure, it captures the real spirit of the young soldiers in the newly emerging Special Air Service. 2002.Forgotten victory: First Canadian Army and the cruel winter of 1944-45
Par Mark Zuehlke. 2014
During the winter of 1944-45, the western Allies desperately sought a strategy that would lead to Germany's quick defeat. After…
much rancorous debate, the Allied high command decided that First Canadian Army would launch the pivotal offensive. Their story is one largely lost to the common national history of World War II. “Forgotten Victory” gives this important legacy back to Canadians. c2014.Invasions without tears: the story of Canada's top-scoring Spitfire wing in Europe during the Second World War
Par Monty Berger, Brian Jeffrey Street. 1994
Based on a manuscript written by Monty Berger in 1945, "Invasion without tears" chronicles the RCAF's 126 Wing from its…
formation in July 1943 to VE-Day two years later. The pilots of 126 Wing were among the war's most decorated and 126 Wing scored more victories than any other Allied air force. 1994.Indianapolis: the true story of the worst sea disaster in U.S. naval history and the fifty-year fight to exonerate an innocent man
Par Lynn Vincent, Sara Vladic. 2018
Based on years of original research and new reporting, two acclaimed authors deliver the riveting and emotionally wrenching full story…
of the worst sea disaster in United States naval history: the sinking of the USS Indianapolis during World War II--and the fifty-year fight to exonerate the captain after a wrongful court martial. 2018.Infamy: the shocking story of the Japanese American internment in World War II
Par Richard Reeves. 2015
Examines the key causes and dire consequences of the Japanese-American internment in relocation camps during WWII, concentrating on a shortsighted…
military strategy and anti-Japanese sentiment following the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. 2015.In the name of humanity
Par Max Wallace. 2017
On November 26, 1944, prisoners at Auschwitz heard a deafening explosion. Emerging from their barracks, they witnessed the crematoria--part of…
the largest killing machine in human history--come crashing down. Most assumed they had fallen victim to inmate sabotage and thousands gave a silent cheer. However, the Final Solution's most efficient murder apparatus had been felled by SS chief Heinrich Himmler--an edict that has puzzled historians for more than six decades. Wallace draws on a cache of recently declassified documents and an account from the only living eyewitness to unravel the mystery. He reveals an incredible story involving the secret negotiations of an unlikely trio--a former fascist President of Switzerland, a courageous Orthodox Jewish woman, and Himmler himself--to end the Holocaust, aided by clandestine Swedish and American intelligence efforts. 2017.In the crease: goaltenders look at life in the NHL
Par Dick Irvin. 1995
Broadcaster Dick Irvin presents interviews and anecdotes about hockey goaltenders and the mythology which surrounds them. Early greats include Georges…
Vezina and Lorne Chabot, and some of the goalies from the modern era of the game include Ken Dryden, Patrick Roy, and Martin Brodeur. c1995.On 30th July 1945 the USS 'Indianapolis' was torpedoed in the South Pacific by a Japanese submarine. Of a crew…
of 1196 men an estimated 300 were killed upon impact; nearly 900 sailors were cast into the Pacific Ocean, where they remained, undetected by the Navy, for nearly five days. Battered by a savage sea, they struggled to stay alive, fighting off sharks, hypothermia and dementia. This text investigates the stories of three survivors; the captain, the ship's doctor and a young marine. 2001.In Hitler's Germany: daily life in the Third Reich
Par Bernt Engelmann. 1986
The author interweaves his memories and interviews with those of war survivors. Some of the Germans who speak here are…
completely unrepentant, still adore Hitler, and cannot understand why his reputation is ruined. 1986. Uniform title: Im Gleichschritt marsch.Black asserts that Nazi Germany used IBM punch-card technology to improve the efficiency of its persecutions during World War II…
and that IBM actively enabled the Holocaust and profited financially from collaboration with the Third Reich. Black also recounts how IBM aided the Allies, especially in code-breaking techniques. Bestseller. Winner of the 2003 CNIB Torgi Award. 2001.Holding Juno: Canada's heroic defence of the D-Day beaches, June 7-12, 1944
Par Mark Zuehlke. 2005
D-Day ended with the Canadians six miles inland - the deepest penetration achieved by Allied forces that day - but…
every soldier knew the worst was yet to come. The Germans began probing the Canadian lines early in the morning of June 7 and shortly after dawn counter attacked in force. The ensuing six days of battle was to prove bloodier than D-Day itself, as the Canadians fought to save the vulnerable beachheads they had won. Sequel to "Juno Beach Canada's D-Day victory, June 6, 1944". c2005.Hockey for kids: heroes, tips and facts
Par Brian McFarlane. 1994
Because we are Canadians: a battlefield memoir
Par Charles D Kipp, Lynda Sykes. 2003
Sergeant Charles D. Kipp was a Canadian soldier in the Second World War, fighting in the months following D-Day. Countless…
hardships were endured and when the war ended, Kipp had a lifetime of aftermath to deal with, both physically and mentally. Closure came for him decades later when he revisited a battlefield. Descriptions of violence. 2003.Etched in ice: a tribute to hockey's defining moments
Par Michael McKinley. 1998
"Etched in Ice" showcases the builders and broadcasters, the dramas and pathos, of a sport that has long made winter…
the hottest season. It includes not only the titans and their achievements, but it also takes us to the men and women who are not household names, yet have affected the game in their own remarkable ways: the first big-time team on the West Coast; a gifted American player cut down early in World War I; a women's team that lost only two games out of 350 during the 1930s. 1998.D-Day: Juno Beach, Canada's 24 hours of destiny
Par Lance Goddard. 2004
Many have called it the most important event of the twentieth century - and Canada played a key role. When…
Canadian troops landed at Juno Beach, they faced some of the fiercest opposition of the attack, yet they managed to advance further inland than all the other Allied forces. An hour-by-hour chronicle of D-Day, told through the words of the men themselves. Some descriptions of violence. 2004.As the Red Army closes in on the Third Reich, a German colonel tells American intelligence about a camp soon…
to be overrun by the Soviets that holds a thousand prize horses Hitler stole to create "a master breed." They're worth millions, and the starving Red Army will kill them for rations. General Patton, whose love of horses was legendary, decides to help the Germans save the majestic creatures. 2018.On April 4, 1945, US Army units from the Eighty-Ninth Infantry Division and the Fourth Armored Division seized Ohrdruf, the…
first of many Nazi concentration camps to be liberated. Drawing on archival sources and thousands of firsthand accounts, historian John C. McManus sheds new light on this often-overlooked aspect of the Holocaust, focusing on the experiences of the soldiers and their determination to bear witness to this horrific history. 2018.As good as dead: the true WWII story of eleven American POWs who escaped from Palawan Island
Par Stephen L Moore. 2016
In late 1944, the Allies invaded the Japanese-held Philippines, and soon the end of the Pacific War was within reach.…
But for the last 150 American prisoners of war still held on the island of Palawan, there would be no salvation. As soldiers, sailors and Marines were herded into shallow air raid shelters, Japanese soldiers doused them with gasoline and set them on fire. By the next morning, only eleven men were left alive-but their desperate journey to freedom had just begun. 2016.Dawn of infamy: a sunken ship, a vanished crew, and the final mystery of Pearl Harbor
Par Stephen Harding. 2016
Harding explores the little-known episode of a U.S. cargo ship that mysteriously vanished, along with her crew, hours before the…
attack on Pearl Harbor, marking the start of a global conflict and sparking one of the most enduring nautical mysteries of the war. 2016.