In these Red Cross memoirs, thirty women tell their stories of volunteer work with the Canadian Red Cross Corps in overseas postings during World War Two and the Korean War. These dramatic narratives take us across oceans infested with...
Korean War (1950-1953)
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Auteur:Day, Francis Martin, Spence, Phyllis, Ladouceur, BarbaraSommaire: -
Auteur:Fehrenbach, T. R.Sommaire:The authoritative, highly acclaimed classic history of the Korean War, This Kind of War is a dramatic and hard-hitting account of the conflict written from the perspective of those who fought it.
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Auteur:Drury, BobSommaire:Drury offers the story of the courageous mission of the Marines of Fox Company who found themselves surrounded and greatly outnumbered by Chinese forces at the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea.
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Auteur:Fitzpatrick, MeghanSommaire:Invisible Scars provides the first extended exploration of Commonwealth Division psychiatry during the Korean War and the psychiatric-care systems in place for the thousands of soldiers who fought in that conflict. Fitzpatrick...
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Auteur:Weetaltuk, Eddy, Martin, Thibault, St. Amand, IsabelleSommaire:“My name is Weetaltuk; Eddy Weetaltuk. My Eskimo tag name is E9-422.” So begins From the "Tundra to the Trenches." Weetaltuk means “innocent eyes” in Inuktitut, but to the Canadian government, he was known as E9-422: E for Eskimo, 9 for...
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Auteur:Appleman, Roy EdgarSommaire:Appleman's book clears up one of the nagging mysteries of the Korean War: the fate of the 7th U.S. Division's Task Force Faith between November 27 and December 1, 1950, when Chinese forces surrounded it along the icy shores of the...
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Auteur:Gaffen, Fred, Bjarnason, Dan, Barris, Ted, Bourrie, Mark, Melady, John, Rockingham, John M.Sommaire:This ebook bundle contains five books that chronicle Canada's participation in the conflict that gripped the Korean peninsula from 1950–53 and resulted in two very different nations that remain at odds today. This bloody and traumatic...
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Auteur:Barris, TedSommaire:Between 1950 and 1953, nearly 30,000 Canadian volunteers joined the effort to contain communist incursions into South Korea and support the fledgling United Nations. All the services were there and all served with distinction. The Royal...
