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What Killed Jane Creba
Rap, Race, and the Invention of a Gang War
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2016
The sensational story of a girl's tragic death and the whirlwind of racial prejudices that came in its wake.
On Boxing Day 2005, fifteen-year-old Jane Creba was fatally shot on one of the busiest streets in Toronto. Police and journalists reported her death as that of an innocent bystander...
One Soldier's Story: 1939-1945
From the Fall of Hong Kong to the Defeat of Japan
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
This is the story of a seventeen year old boy who ran away from home to join the Canadian Army at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939. It describes the fateful adventures of two regiments dispatched to the Pacific to face the Japanese, and the courage of two thousand young soldiers who, when...
Sergeant Gander
A Canadian Hero
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2009
Sergeant Gander is a fascinating account of the Royal Rifles of Canada’s canine mascot, and his devotion to duty demonstrated during the Battle of Hong Kong in the Second World War. Armed only with his formidable size, an intimidating set of teeth, and a protective instinct, Gander rought alongside...
It Made You Think of Home
The Haunting Journal of Deward Barnes, CEF: 1916-1919
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2004
"We took our positions, five kneeling and five standing … we got the order to fire. One blank and nine live rounds … I did not have the blank."
That is the voice of Deward Barnes, an unwilling but dutiful member of the firing squad that shot Harold Lodge, one of 25 Canadians executed during...
"C" Force to Hong Kong
A Canadian Catastrophe
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1997
This is the story of a "no military risk" campaign that slowly turned into a nightmare. The book provides new answers to a number of difficult questions beginning with a discussion of why Canadian troops were sent to Hong Kong at the request of the British War Office. Were the British duplicitous...
Intrepid Warriors
Perspectives on Canadian Military Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2007
Command and leadership are very personal endeavours. The manner in which an individual commands others and exercises leadership speaks more to the character and personality of the individual in question than it does to the concept of command or leadership in and of themselves.
Intrepid Warriors...
Foreign Voices in the House
A Century of Addresses to Canada's Parliament by World Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2017
The Hill Times: Best Books of 2017
Unique views from John F. Kennedy, Nelson Mandela, Indira Gandhi, and dozens of other world leaders reveal Canada and Canadians through their eyes.
During the First World War, foreign leaders began addressing Canadians in our House of Commons and, ever...
Props on Her Sleeve
The Wartime Letters of a Canadian Airwoman
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 1997
A first-hand account of the experiences of a young Canadian airwoman who served both in Canada and on overseas duty, this series of 150 letters brings home the day-to-day immediacy of life in uniform during the Second World War. Moments of hilarity interspersed with impatience and frustration are...
by Lionel and Patricia Fanthorpe
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1997
People disappear without a trace. Captain Briggs, his crew, and his family vanished from the Canadian built Mary Celeste. Ben Bathurst walked around the horses harnessed to his coach - and was never seen again. People appear without explanation Kaspar Hauser arrived in Nuremberg as inexplicably as...
Guidebook to the Historic Sites of the War of 1812
2nd Edition, Revised and Updated
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
There have been guidebooks to military sites before, but no other book has covered the War of 1812 in its entirety. This well-illustrated updated edition covers more than 400 historic sites of the War of 1812, both well-known and obscure, in both Canada and the United States.
The author has...
by Roger Litwiller
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
This is the story of six of Canadas Warships HMCS NAPANEE, HMCS BELLEVILLE, HMCS HALLOWELL, HMCS TRENTONIAN, HMCS QUINTE (I), and the HMCS QUINTE (II). These histories give a unique account of the small ships that have been the backbone of the Canadian Navy during the Second World War and the Cold...
by John Melady
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2006
In the fall of 1956, the world was on the brink of war. Egyptian President Gamel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal, and Britain, France, and Israel attacked him. Russia supported Nasser, and Soviet Premier Khrushchev threatened nuclear holocaust if the United States became militarily involved. Soon,...
Coming Home
Saskatchewan Remembered
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2002
The stories in Coming Home are as surprising as the landscape of Saskatchewan itself and as varied as its weather. Through the author's reminiscences, we experience prairie life as it was more than sixty years ago, and as it is today. A rich cast of characters appears - neighbours, drunks, misfits...
Battle Diary
From D-Day and Normandy to the Zuider Zee and Ve
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 1996
A fast-paced account by a soldier who was twice decorated. Charlie Martin, company sergeant-major in the Queen's Own, was with his beloved A Company in all of the significant Normandy actions.