World War II
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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![]() A Good WarMobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency |
Canada needs to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 50% to prevent a catastrophic 1.5 degree increase in the earth’s average temperature — assumed by many scientists to be a … | Seth Klein | 465 | 2020 | View |
![]() Bamboo CageThe P.O.W. Diary of Lieutenant Robert Wyse, 1942-1943 |
In 1942, RAF flight controller Robert Wyse became a Japanese prisoner of war on the island of Java in Indonesia. Starved, sick, beaten, and worked to near-death, he wasted away until he weighed … | Jonathan F. Vance | 147 | 2009 | View |
![]() Big Business and Hitler |
For big business in Germany and around the world, Hitler and his National Socialist party were a welcome political development. Business was facing the Great Depression of in the 1930s, and for … | Jacques R. Pauwels | 304 | 2017 | View |
![]() NEW! Bombs and Barbed WireStories of Acadian Airmen and Prisoners of War, 1939-1945 |
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 |
![]() Captured HeartsNew Brunswick's War Brides |
Imagine you’re a young woman caught up in the ugly reality of war. You meet and fall in love with a young soldier from a foreign country. You marry and your world is upended: when the war … | Melynda Jarratt | 148 | 2008 | View |
![]() Dangerous Enemy SympathizersCanadian Internment Camp B, 1940-1945 |
From 1940 to 1945, Internment Camp B at Ripples, some 35 kilometres east of Fredericton, played a considerable role in the Second World War. Chosen for its remote rural New Brunswick location, … | Andrew Theobald | 178 | 2019 | View |
![]() Disarming ConflictWhy Peace Cannot Be Won on the Battlefield |
Wars fought over the past quarter century have been a spectacular failure. The overwhelming majority end in military stalemate and are settled at the negotiating table, with the grievances that … | Ernie Regehr | 232 | 2015 | View |
![]() NEW! Material Traces of WarStories of Canadian Women and Conflict, 1914-1945 |
Material Traces of War: Stories of Canadian Women and Conflict, 1914–1945, looks at how Canadian women experienced the world wars through objects, images, and archival documents. The book puts … | Krista Cooke; Molly McCullough; Stacey Barker | 338 | 2021 | View |
![]() Mussolini Also Did A Lot of GoodThe Spread of Historical Amnesia |
Surgically, but with wit, Francesco Filippi demolishes each and every myth that has taken root about Mussolini and fascism in an uplifting handbook for political and intellectual self-defense. No … | Francesco Filippi | 216 | 2021 | View |
![]() NEW! Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Anti-Semitism and the MS St. LouisCanada's Anti-Semitic Immigration Policies in the Twentieth Century |
Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Anti-Semitism and the MS St. Louis is designed to provide an introductory-level overview of Canada’s anti-Semitic immigration policies throughout the twentieth … | Rona Arato | 90 | 2021 | View |
![]() Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Anti-Semitism and the MS St. LouisCanada's Anti-Semitic Immigration Policies in the Twentieth Century |
Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Anti-Semitism and the MS St. Louis is designed to provide an introductory-level overview of Canada’s anti-Semitic immigration policies throughout the twentieth … | Rona Arato | 90 | 2021 | View |
![]() Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Italian Canadian Internment in the Second World War |
Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Italian Canadian Internment is designed to provide an introductory-level overview of the internment of Italian-Canadians during the Second World War. This title … | Jean Smith Cavaluzzo; Pamela Hickman | 114 | 2012 | View |
![]() Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Japanese Canadian Internment in the Second World War |
Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Japanese Canadian Internment is designed to provide an introductory-level overview of the internment of Japanese-Canadians during the Second World War. This title … | Musako Fukawa; Pamela Hickman | 162 | 2012 | View |
![]() The Myth of the Good WarAmerica in the Second World War |
Was the role of the United States in the Second World War an essentially idealistic one, a crusading struggle to conquer the dark forces of German fascism and Japanese militarism? Was it an … | Jacques R. Pauwels | 328 | 2015 | View |
![]() Within the Barbed Wire FenceA Japanese Man's Account of his Internment in Canada |
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 |
![]() Worth Fighting ForCanada’s Tradition of War Resistance from 1812 to the War on Terror |
Historians, veterans, museums, and public education campaigns have all documented and commemorated the experience of Canadians in times of war. But Canada also has a long, rich, and important … | Catherine Gidney; Lara Campbell; Michael Dawson | 336 | 2015 | View |