World War II
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From  The Fasting Granny vs. the Trudeau GovernmentDemanding an End to the Canadian Presence in Vietnam From: Worth Fighting For |
Tarah Brookfield | 17 | 2015 | $1.70 Add | |
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From  NEW! The Fourteenth Mission: The Story of Joseph Laurie CormierChapter Four From: Bombs and Barbed Wire |
Chapter Four focuses on the story of Laurie Cormier of Moncton, New Brunswick, describing his time as a tail gunner for the No. 427 “Lion” Squadron of the RCAF, his capture as a … | Ronald Cormier | 21 | 2022 | $2.10 Add |
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From  The Future of the WorldFrom: The Third Man |
In this chapter, Thompson traces the military and diplomatic manoeuvres of late 1942 and early 1943, when Mackenzie King and Franklin Roosevelt shaped Allied visions for the post-war world. | Neville Thompson | 30 | 2021 | $3.00 Add |
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From  NEW! The GulagFrom: Wanda’s War |
Chapter 2 focuses on Casey (Kazimierz) Surdykowski, Wanda’s husband. The chapter tries to piece together Casey’s early life in interwar Poland, his family’s life as military … | Marsha Faubert | 11 | 2023 | $1.10 Add |
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From  The haiku club |
Discusses the Haiku Club at Angler | Leatrice M. Willson Chan; Takeo Ujo Nakano | 7 | 2012 | $0.70 Add |
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From  The Investigation into the Murder of August Plaszek July 24, 1943 to September 16, 1944From: Hanged in Medicine Hat |
In this chapter, Greenfield examines the RCMP investigation into the murder of August Plaszek at Camp 132 in Medicine Hat, Alberta. | Nathan Greenfield | 22 | 2022 | $2.20 Add |
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From The Investigation into the Murder of Dr. Karl Lehmann September 11, 1944 to April 8, 1945From: Hanged in Medicine Hat |
In this chapter, Greenfield examinesthe investigation into the murder of Dr. Karl Lehmann, a prisoner of war killed at Camp 132 in Medicine Hat, Alberta, in September 1944. | Nathan Greenfield | 25 | 2022 | $2.50 Add |
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From The Lehmann Murder Trials June 24 to July 2, 1946From: Hanged in Medicine Hat |
In this chapter, Greenfield explains how in the summer of 1946, four German prisoners of war stood trial in Medicine Hat, Alberta, for the hanging murder of Corporal Dr. Karl Lehmann in 1944. … | Nathan Greenfield | 43 | 2022 | $4.30 Add |
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From  The Liberation of ItalyA Fateful Precedent From: The Myth of the Good War |
Looks at the liberation of Italy in 1943 and how this process set a precendent for other liberation efforts. | Jacques R. Pauwels | 9 | 2015 | $0.90 Add |
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From  The Limits of ForceFrom: Disarming Conflict |
Ernie Regehr | 20 | 2015 | $2.00 Add | |
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From The Long Summer of 1944From: The Myth of the Good War |
Looks at Operation Overload and landing in Normady in the summer of 1944 as a race for Britain and America to beat the Soviets to Berlin. Also looks at liberation in that summer and trying to … | Jacques R. Pauwels | 10 | 2015 | $1.00 Add |
 The Matryoshka MemoirsA Story of Ukrainian Forced Labour, The Leica Camera Factory, and Nazi Resistance. |
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 … | Sasha Colby | 252 | 2023 | View |
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From The Murder of August Plaszek July 22, 1943From: Hanged in Medicine Hat |
In this chapter, Greenfield describes how on the afternoon of July 22, 1943, German POW August Plaszek was hanged by fellow inmates at Camp 132 in Medicine Hat, Alberta, after a prisoner … | Nathan Greenfield | 11 | 2022 | $1.10 Add |
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 … | 328 | View | ||
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From  The Mythologies of Canada’s "Good War"From: Canada in the World |
The Second World War – The Spectre of Jewish Bolshevism – None Is Too Many – Crimes and Contradictions – At War’s End – Death from Above, Death from Below | Tyler A. Shipley | 28 | 2020 | $2.80 Add |
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From NEW! The Reckoning, Part IFrom: Wanda’s War |
Chapter 8 focuses on the Nuremberg trials, and other efforts to hold perpetrators of war crimes during the Second World War criminally responsible. | Marsha Faubert | 17 | 2023 | $1.70 Add |
