War
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From  These Things Happen in AfricaFrom: From Bombs to Books |
Describes the life of a man from Somalia who lost his leg delivering supplies to a UN refugee camp and then became a refugee in Uganda before being approved to come to Canada with his family. | David Starr | 9 | 2016 | $0.90 Add |
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From They Cannot Hide From the World What They DidFrom: From Bombs to Books |
Describes the experience of an Indonesian family who were hunted by security forces in Aech and split apart before illegally journeying to Malaysia and becoming refugee claimants. | David Starr | 15 | 2016 | $1.50 Add |
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From  NEW! “They wanted to humiliate us”: The Story of Guy SiroisChapter Eleven From: Bombs and Barbed Wire |
Chapter Eleven focuses on the story of Guy Sirois from Saint-Hilaire, New Brunswick, describing his time in the Far East, capture by the Japanese, his captivity, conditioning of the working … | Ronald Cormier | 13 | 2022 | $1.30 Add |
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From This is What War Looks Like to WomenFrom: From Bombs to Books |
Describes the experience of a woman born in Liberia in 1982 who escaped the civil war in Liberia by moving to Ivory Coast where war soon broke out as well. She then found her way to a refugee … | David Starr | 11 | 2016 | $1.10 Add |
 Three Funerals for my FatherLove, Loss and Escape from Vietnam |
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 |
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From Three Simple WishesFrom: From Bombs to Books |
Discusses a recent history of a family from the Eritrea province of Ethiopia and the violence they experienced prior to being approved to come to Canada as refugees. | David Starr | 12 | 2016 | $1.20 Add |
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From  To Descoigne road camp |
He is moved to Descoigne Road Camp, talks about the country surrounding it | Leatrice M. Willson Chan; Takeo Ujo Nakano | 6 | 2012 | $0.60 Add |
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From To jail in Vancouver |
talks about being send to Jail after the association with the Security committee in Slocan | Leatrice M. Willson Chan; Takeo Ujo Nakano | 7 | 2012 | $0.70 Add |
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From To Slocan instead of Greenwood |
He is sent to work at slocan instead of joining his family at Greenwood and ensuing arguments with the Security Commission about broken promises | Leatrice M. Willson Chan; Takeo Ujo Nakano | 6 | 2012 | $0.60 Add |
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From To Vancouver and on to Yellowhead road camp |
The trip from Vancouver to the work camp | Leatrice M. Willson Chan; Takeo Ujo Nakano | 7 | 2012 | $0.70 Add |
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From Transcontinental removal |
The trip from Vancouver to the internment camp in Angler Ontario | Leatrice M. Willson Chan; Takeo Ujo Nakano | 5 | 2012 | $0.50 Add |
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From Trại Mát |
This chapter is told from the author’s perspective. She describes a a short trip to Trại Mát and reminisces on a time when her younger sister got very sick and was treated by her … | Jolie Phuong Hoang | 7 | 2021 | $0.70 Add |
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From  Troubles at the AdmiraltyFrom: Churchill and Fisher |
Historian Barry Gough provides a thorough examination of Winston Churchill’s and Jack Fisher’s troubles at the Admiralty in 1915 as they relate to the Dardanelles and the … | Barry Gough | 49 | 2017 | $4.90 Add |
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From  Two FacesFrom: Man at the Airport |
This chapter details the author’s experiences in Abu Dhabi and Dubai as he tried to make friends and find work. He was in the UAE when the conflict in Syria began. | Hassan Al Kontar | 15 | 2021 | $1.50 Add |
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From Vượt Biên |
This chapter is told from the author’s father’s perspective. He executes an escape plan. | Jolie Phuong Hoang | 6 | 2021 | $0.60 Add |
 NEW! Wanda’s WarAn Untold Story of Nazi Europe, Forced Labour, and a Canadian Immigration Scandal |
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 … | 256 | View |
