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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Part II From: The Matryoshka Memoirs View ECW Press	Part Two picks up from the first as Irina and Sergei escape from Germany with their child, and immigrate to Canada. The author continues to include scenes from the modern day between herself and …	Sasha Colby	80	2023	$8.00 Add
From Peace and Fire From: Three Funerals for my Father View twp	This chapter is told from the author’s father’s perspective. It gives insight into the changes and challenges faced by the family under the communist government.	Jolie Phuong Hoang	3	2021	$0.30 Add
From Pig Brains From: Three Funerals for my Father View twp	This chapter is told from the author’s perspective. She continues to detail her early life in Canada.	Jolie Phuong Hoang	6	2021	$0.60 Add
From Postscript ‘History will give you your due’ From: Churchill and Fisher View James Lorimer and Company	Historian Barry Gough offers final thoughts on the relationship between Winston Churchill and Jack Fisher he then examines the relationship between Churchill and Sir David Beatty during the …	Barry Gough	19	2017	$1.90 Add
From Preface, A Note on the Board of Admiralty, and Introduction The Daemonic Duo From: Churchill and Fisher View James Lorimer and Company	Historian Barry Gough provides an introduction to the board of admiralty and an overview of the history between Churchill and Fisher before the outset of World War One.	Barry Gough	29	2017	$2.90 Add
From Preparing for War From: Churchill and Fisher View James Lorimer and Company	Historian Barry Gough examines the preperations for war made by Winston Churchill and Jack Fisher (1911-1914) including the naval officers involved, the role of oil, the Mediterranean naval …	Barry Gough	41	2017	$4.10 Add
From Prologue: Woodfibre days From: Within the Barbed Wire Fence View James Lorimer and Company	Talks about life before Pearl Harbour in Woodfibre BC	Leatrice M. Willson Chan; Takeo Ujo Nakano	5	2012	$0.50 Add
From River of Madness From: Man at the Airport View twp	This chapter describes the author’s time in jail for overstaying his work visa, the death of his father, and his deportation to Kuala Lumpur.	Hassan Al Kontar	30	2021	$3.00 Add
From Rough Waters From: Three Funerals for my Father View twp	This chapter is told from the author’s father’s perspective. He continues to plan his family’s escape.	Jolie Phuong Hoang	9	2021	$0.90 Add
From Say ‘Resurgam’! From: Churchill and Fisher View James Lorimer and Company	Historian Barry Gough examines Winston Churchill’s defence of the Dardanelles campagin despite high casualities and cost while Jack Fisher takes a position at the Admiralty Board of …	Barry Gough	45	2017	$4.50 Add
From Secret arrangements for departure From: Within the Barbed Wire Fence View James Lorimer and Company	The quiet arrangements that had to be made in order to leave the camp	Leatrice M. Willson Chan; Takeo Ujo Nakano	4	2012	$0.40 Add
From Service in France at No. 1 Canadian General Hospital From: Asleep in the Deep View Goose Lane Editions	Anna Stamers was transfered to France in 1916. Hospitals in France were set up to receive all incoming wounded from the Allied forces, as well as civilians and prisoners of war. Horrible …	Dianne Kelly	32	2021	$3.20 Add
From She Was So Beautiful My Heart Moved From: From Bombs to Books View James Lorimer and Company	Describes the experience of an Afghan man forced into army service to graduate from school who marries a half-Russian, half-Uzbek woman and their escape the violence of the area to come to …	David Starr	18	2016	$1.80 Add
From Signing up to Serve From: Asleep in the Deep View Goose Lane Editions	This chapter describes the distinctive Canadian Nursing Sister uniform and the procedures undergone to recruit and select nurses for the Canadian Army Medical Corp once war was declared. …	Dianne Kelly	18	2021	$1.80 Add
From NEW! Silence, Memory From: Wanda’s War View Goose Lane Editions	Chapter 13 examines the individual trips Wanda and Casey took to Poland during the 1970’s. The chapter reflects on Wanda and Casey’s life and experiences of exile and trauma after the …	Marsha Faubert	12	2023	$1.20 Add
From Sisters in Struggle From: From Bombs to Books View James Lorimer and Company	Describes as context the recent history of the Sudan, and recounts one family’s experience living through the 1983-84 violence in the country, their journey to refugee camps in Ethiopia and …	David Starr	17	2016	$1.70 Add