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Pumpkinflowers: a soldier's story
Par Matti Friedman. 2016
Describes the author's harrowing experiences manning a remote Israeli outpost with a regiment of other young soldiers, during a small,…
unnamed war in the late 1990s that foreshadowed other unwinnable conflicts in the Middle East. 2016.Pursuit: the chase and sinking of the Bismarck
Par Ludovic Kennedy. 1974
Planet earth: the latest weapon of war
Par Rosalie Bertell. 2001
One woman's look at the Earth and how we are changing it for the worse through warfare and security. Also…
a look at the move toward space and where we may be headed in the future. Some descriptions of violence. 2001.Planning your retirement
Par Blossom T Wigdor. 1985
Persian Gulf Command: a history of the Second World War in Iran and Iraq
Par Ashley Jackson. 2018
During WWI, the battle for the tiny Belgium town of Passchendaele was one of the most significant tests of Canadian…
courage and expertise. General Haig ordered a headlong attack into the heavily fortified German entrenchments, to capture the town and drive toward the coast to destroy German submarine bases. General Currie's Canadian Corps, known as unstoppable 'storm troopers', was called to the front. For junior high and older readers. 2008.Paths to freedom
Par Bob Kellow. 1992
In 1943, RAF officer Bob Kellow had to bail out over northern Holland and then had to escape through Belgium…
and France to Spain. He was back in England 12 weeks after he landed in Holland. This is the story of people in the Underground Movement who assisted Kellow and other soldiers to escape. 1992.Patton's ghost corps: cracking the Siegfried Line
Par Nathan Prefer. 1998
Account of troops in the 94th Infantry Division of the XX Corps who were left to defend the entire front…
line while the Battle of the Bulge raged north of their position. Describes how the new recruits faced seasoned veterans of the Third Reich, as well as freezing snow, ice, and fog. 1998.Patton's gap: an account of the Battle of Normandy 1944 (Canadian)
Par Richard Rohmer. 1982
Rohmer's account of one of World War II's most famous battles presents a new theory which maintains that British General…
Montgomery failed to have American General Patton close the Falaise Gap through which the German army escaped. 1982.Overlord: D-Day and the battle for Normandy
Par Max Hastings. 1984
On 6 June 1944, the British and American armies staged the greatest amphibious landing in history to begin operation Overland,…
the battle for the liberation of Europe. Forty years later with the wealth of untapped sources and documents now available, Max Hastings offers a new study of D-Day and the Battle of Normandy which overturns a host of traditional legends. 1984.Our future selves: love, life, sex and aging
Par Merrily Weisbord. 1991
Our best years
Par Helen Hayes, Marion Glasserow Gladney. 1984
Bacque investigates the treatment received by German POWs following the end of World War II. Bacque alleges that hundreds of…
thousands of German prisoners were stripped of their rights under the Geneva Convention, and died of starvation and preventable diseases or were used as slave labour by the French. 1989.Ordinary men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
Par Christopher R Browning. 2017
The true story of Reserve Police Battalion 101 of the German Order Police, which was responsible for mass shootings as…
well as round-ups of Jewish people for deportation to Nazi death camps in Poland in 1942. Browning argues that most of the men of RPB 101 were not fanatical Nazis but, rather, ordinary middle-aged, working-class men who committed these atrocities out of a mixture of motives, including the group dynamics of conformity, deference to authority, role adaptation, and the altering of moral norms to justify their actions. Very quickly three groups emerged within the battalion: a core of eager killers, a plurality who carried out their duties reliably but without initiative, and a small minority who evaded participation in the acts of killing without diminishing the murderous efficiency of the battalion whatsoever. 2017.Operation Paperclip: the secret intelligence program that brought Nazi scientists to America
Par Annie Jacobsen. 2014
Annie Jacobsen pulls the curtain back on one of the most complex and nefarious government secrets of the twentieth century,…
when the US government secretly allowed some of the Third Reich's most brilliant scientific minds to work in this country without the public's knowledge. 2014.Operation Mincemeat: the true spy story that changed the course of World War II
Par Ben Macintyre. 2010
Operation Mincemeat was the most successful wartime deception ever attempted, and certainly the strangest. It hoodwinked the Nazi espionage chiefs,…
sent German troops hurtling in the wrong direction, and saved thousands of lives by deploying a secret agent who was different, in one crucial respect, from any spy before or since: he was dead. Ben Macintyre weaves together private documents, photographs, memories, letters and diaries, as well as newly released material from the intelligence files of MI5 and Naval Intelligence, to tell for the first time the full story. 2010.Open your hearts: the story of the Jewish war orphans in Canada
Par Fraidie Martz. 1996
From 1947 to 1949, the Canadian government reluctantly allowed 1,123 children, survivors of the Holocaust, into the country. Drawing on…
archival materials, memoirs, interviews and diaries, it describes how these young people, though traumatized by their war-time experiences, flourished in the care of their community and became productive citizens. Their stories also may hold lessons for current Canadian immigration policy.One woman's war: a Canadian reporter with the Free French
Par Gladys Arnold. 1987
The author was the Paris correspondent for Canadian Press during the first part of World War II. She was the…
only Canadian reporter to experience the invasion of France by the Germans in 1940. She returned to Canada in 1941 to work for the cause of the Free French. 1987.One day in August: the untold story behind Canada's tragedy at Dieppe
Par David R O'Keefe. 2013
For seven decades, the objective for the Dieppe raid has been one of the most perplexing mysteries of World War…
II. After almost two decades of research, David O’Keefe skillfully pieces together the story like a jigsaw puzzle to reveal the prime reason behind the raid: a highly secret mission designed, in one of Britain’s darkest times, to redress the balance of the war. c2013.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)