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Forged in Fire

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Surmonter l’épreuve : Canada et la Seconde Guerre mondiale
9781988282015

The Second World War transformed Canada and its place in the world. The outbreak of war in September ...

Traitors of Camp 133, The

By (author) Wayne Arthurson
Categories: Second World War

Captain Mueller is dead. Hanged, apparently, by his own hand. But ex-police officer and war hero Sergeant August Neumann doesn’t think it’s quite so simple. How could it be, with blackshirts, legionnaires, ...

The Frontier of Patriotism

Adriana A. Davies is a writer, editor, and poet, and is the founding executive director of the Heritage Community Foundation. Jeff Keshen is dean of arts at Mount Royal University.

Readers will come away ...

Deadly Skies

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Un ciel meurtrier : Guerre aérienne, 1914-1918
9780660031446

Go beyond the dogfights and immerse yourself in the captivating stories of six people, from both sides of the ...

Seven Oaks Reader, The

By (author) Myrna Kostash
Categories: General and world history

Award-winning nonfiction writer Myrna Kostash is the author of 10 books, including All of Baba’s Children and The Doomed Bridegroom. In 2010, she received the Writers Trust of Canada Matt Cohen Award ...

The Life and Art of Jack Akroyd

By (author) Peter Busby
Introduction by Paul Wolf
Categories: History of art
Series: The Unheralded Artists of BC

“Mother Tongue’s noble rescue project, now eight in the Unheralded Artists of BC series… insightfully written… a sumptuously designed book, and contains a generous number of photographs of Akroyd’s ...

Metis and the Medicine Line

By (author) Michel Hogue
Categories: History of the Americas

"Beautifully written. " - Sarah Carter, author of Lost Harvests and Capturing Women

"A tremendous accomplishment… this book will be the definitive one on this subject for years to come. " - Andrew R. ...

A Blue Puttee at War

By (author) Sydney Frost
Edited by Edward Roberts
Categories: First World War

With never-before-seen photos and stories from World War I, Sydney Frost’s memoir is unique. It is the most complete account of the First World War by any member of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment of ...

Forgotten Victory

By (author) Mark Zuehlke
Categories: Second World War
Series: Canadian Battle Series

During the winter of 1944–45, the western Allies desperately sought a strategy that would lead to Germany’s quick defeat. From the Swiss border to the North Sea, hundreds of thousands of soldiers ...

The Constructed Mennonite

By (author) Hans Werner
Categories: Second World War

John Werner was a storyteller. A Mennonite immigrant in southern Manitoba, he captivated his audiences with tales of adventure and perseverance. With every telling he constructed and reconstructed the ...