World War II

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
A Good War Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency ECW Press	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 Cage The P.O.W. Diary of Lieutenant Robert Wyse, 1942-1943 Goose Lane Editions	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 James Lorimer and Company	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 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
Captured Hearts New Brunswick's War Brides Goose Lane Editions	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 Sympathizers Canadian Internment Camp B, 1940-1945 Goose Lane Editions	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 Conflict Why Peace Cannot Be Won on the Battlefield Between The Lines	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 War Stories of Canadian Women and Conflict, 1914-1945 University of Ottawa Press	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 Good The Spread of Historical Amnesia bar	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. Louis Canada's Anti-Semitic Immigration Policies in the Twentieth Century James Lorimer and Company	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. Louis Canada's Anti-Semitic Immigration Policies in the Twentieth Century James Lorimer and Company	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 James Lorimer and Company	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 James Lorimer and Company	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 Matryoshka Memoirs A Story of Ukrainian Forced Labour, The Leica Camera Factory, and Nazi Resistance. ECW Press	Irina Nikifortchuk was 19 years old and a Ukrainian schoolteacher when she was abducted to be a forced laborer in the Leica camera factory in Nazi Germany. Eventually pulled from the camp …		252	2023	View
The Myth of the Good War America in the Second World War James Lorimer and Company	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
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