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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From ![]() NEW! “A beating every day”: The Story of Léo PitreChapter Ten From: Bombs and Barbed Wire |
Chapter Ten focuses on the story of Léo Pitre from Jacquet River, New Brunswick, describing his time in Hong Kong in 1941 with the Royal Rifles of Canada and the Winnipeg Grenadiers, capture … | Ronald Cormier | 21 | 2022 | $2.10 Add |
From ![]() NEW! A Bloody Colonial: The Story of Roger PichetteChapter Two From: Bombs and Barbed Wire |
Chapter Two focuses on the story of Roger Pichette of the RCAF from Campbellton, New Brunswick, describing his education, time as a tail gunner, time with the No. 142 Squadron known as the … | Ronald Cormier | 17 | 2022 | $1.70 Add |
From ![]() NEW! A Different Life: The Story of Blair BourgeoisChapter One From: Bombs and Barbed Wire |
Chapter One focuses on the story of Blair Bourgeois, a member of the RCAF from Moncton, New Brunswick, discussing his training in England, the No. 425 “Alouette” Squadron, four-leaf … | Ronald Cormier | 12 | 2022 | $1.20 Add |
From ![]() NEW! A Pact in 1939, Seed of Victory in 1945From: Myths of Modern History |
This chapter tackles a myth recently "certified" by the European parliament: that WW2 became possible because Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union concluded an “alliance,” … | Jacques R. Pauwels | 30 | 2022 | $3.00 Add |
![]() A People’s History of Quebec |
This lively guide to Quebec history tells the fascinating story of the settlement of the St. Lawrence River Valley over nearly 500 years. But it also tells of the Montreal and Quebec-based … | Jacques Lacoursière; Robin Philpot | 209 | 2002 | View |
From ![]() A Quarter Century of Failed WarfareFrom: Disarming Conflict |
Ernie Regehr | 21 | 2015 | $2.10 Add | |
From ![]() A Second Front for Stalin, or a Third Front in the Air? From: The Myth of the Good War |
1942. Analyzes why the decision not to open a second front was made by the British and American forces | Jacques R. Pauwels | 14 | 2015 | $1.40 Add |
From ![]() A “Square Deal” DelayedFrom: Equal as Citizens |
Dominion-Provincial Conference on Reconstruction, August 6, 1945, Prime Minister and Canada’s Premiers meet to discuss the reconstruction of Canada, no agreements but paved the way for the … | Richard Starr | 18 | 2014 | $1.80 Add |
From ![]() A Two-Year Military Training Course or a Degree?From: To Serve Canada |
Academic Policy and the Regular Officer Training Plan (ROTP). | Richard Preston | 17 | 1991 | $2.21 Add |
From ![]() Afterwards |
Looks at the homefront from 1915 to 1918 and the defenses. Deals with the tension on the homefront from those who wanted to be sent overseas. | Bryan Elson | 21 | 2014 | $2.10 Add |
From ![]() America and the Red PerilFrom: The Myth of the Good War |
Analyzes how the American Power elites were against communism and Bolshevism and therefore liked European facism and Hitler’s Nazism. | Jacques R. Pauwels | 13 | 2015 | $1.30 Add |
From ![]() An Anti-Soviet Crusade?From: The Myth of the Good War |
The so-called German Option, the possibility of an alliance between the Americans and the British on the one side and the Germans on the other, thus constituted an important element of the hard … | Jacques R. Pauwels | 13 | 2015 | $1.30 Add |
From ![]() Angus L. Gives It a GoFrom: Equal as Citizens |
1933-43. Angus L MacDonald led the Liberals back to power in Nova Scotia in 1933, Maritime economic change due to protective tarriffs, Nova Scotia argues for reparations on the ground of damage … | Richard Starr | 19 | 2014 | $1.90 Add |
From ![]() NEW! AppendicesFrom: Bottoms Up |
Appendices include: Alcohol-Related Crimes and Court Cases, Eighteenth Century Tavern Owners in St. John’s, St. John’s Alcohol-Related Businesses from the Nineteenth Century until … | Sheilah Roberts Lukins | 25 | 2020 | $2.50 Add |
![]() Asleep in the DeepNursing Sister Anna Stamers and the First World War |
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 |
From ![]() IntroductionAir Water, and Nova Scotia From: Fastest in the World |
A brief overview of the evolution of high speed transportation throughout the 20th century and an introduction to Nova Scotia’s role in the development of two record breaking watercraft: … | John Boileau | 4 | 2004 | $0.40 Add |