War

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
Asleep in the Deep Nursing Sister Anna Stamers and the First World War Goose Lane Editions	On 27 June 1918, the Llandovery Castle, a Canadian hospital ship returning to England, was sunk by a German U-boat in contravention of international law. Two hundred and thirty-four crew members …	Dianne Kelly	223	2021	View
NEW! Bombs and Barbed Wire Stories of Acadian Airmen and Prisoners of War, 1939-1945 Goose Lane Editions	Little has been written about the Acadians who served in Canada’s armed forces during the Second World War. In fact, the prevailing notion suggested that Acadians refused to support the war …	Ronald Cormier	204	2022	View
Churchill and Fisher The titans at the Admiralty who fought the First World War James Lorimer and Company	A vivid study of the politics and stress of high command, this book describes the decisive roles of young Winston Churchill as political head of the Admiralty during the First World War. …	Barry Gough	656	2017	View
Imagined Truths Myths from a Draft-Dodging Poet twp	Memory is not only selective, it’s an amazing liar, con artist and spin doctor. History is what we choose to remember about the past in order to justify the present. Richard Lemm grew up in …	Richard Lemm	272	2021	View
Man at the Airport How Social Media Saved My Life: One Syrian's Story twp	Man at the Airport explores what it means to be a Syrian, an “illegal” and a refugee. More broadly, it examines the power of social media to amplify individual voices and facilitate …	Hassan Al Kontar	232	2021	View
NEW! My Road from Damascus A Memoir ECW Press	"An extraordinary account of survival in Syria’s most notorious military prisons that is written with “brutal clarity — and yet, there is a poetic quality to the …	Jamal Saeed	440	2022	View
The 1956 Hungarian Revolution Hungarian and Canadian Perspectives University of Ottawa Press	In October 1956, a spontaneous uprising took Hungarian Communist authorities by surprise, prompting Soviet authorities to invade the country. After a few days of violent fighting, the revolt was …	Christopher Adam; Tibor Egervari	306	2010	View
Three Funerals for my Father Love, Loss and Escape from Vietnam twp	What would you risk to save your children? Jolie Hoang grew up as one of ten children, part of a loving, prosperous Vietnamese family. All that changed when the communists took over in 1975; the …	Jolie Phuong Hoang	232	2021	View
NEW! Wanda’s War An Untold Story of Nazi Europe, Forced Labour, and a Canadian Immigration Scandal Goose Lane Editions	In 1943, Wanda Gizmunt was ripped from her family home in Poland and deported to a forced labour camp in Nazi Germany. At the end of the war, she became one of millions of displaced Europeans …	Marsha Faubert	256	2023	View
Within the Barbed Wire Fence A Japanese Man's Account of his Internment in Canada James Lorimer and Company	Takeo Nakano immigrated to Canada from Japan in 1920, later marrying and starting a family in his adopted homeland. Takeo’s passion was poetry, and he cultivated the exquisite form known as …	Leatrice M. Willson Chan; Takeo Ujo Nakano	144	2012	View
From NEW! Chapters 1-5 From: My Road from Damascus View ECW Press	Includes the chapters "Silver Charm and Apple Trees", "Despair Was the Secret of My Courage", "Holy", "From Syria’s Next Great Writer to Dog Food", …	Jamal Saeed	29	2022	$2.90 Add
From FOREWORD to New Edition and Preface of original edition From: Within the Barbed Wire Fence View James Lorimer and Company	Discusses that the best way to guard human rights today is to arm ourselves with the knowledge of how easily they were taken in the past. Outlines racial injustice. Also discusses the history of …	Leatrice M. Willson Chan	12	2012	$1.20 Add
From Introduction From: The 1956 Hungarian Revolution View University of Ottawa Press	Introduction	Christopher Adam; Leslie Laczko; Tibor Egervari	9	2010	$1.17 Add
From Introduction From: Man at the Airport View twp		Hassan Al Kontar	5	2021	$0.50 Add
From Introduction From: Asleep in the Deep View Goose Lane Editions	The introduction summarizes the events surrounding the German sinking of the Canadian Hospital Ship Llandovery Castle in World War I. Following the war, the actions of the U-boat commander and …	Dianne Kelly	5	2021	$0.50 Add
From Introduction From: Imagined Truths View twp		Richard Lemm	5	2021	$0.50 Add