Addressing himself to Artyom, a four-year-old victim of the conflict in Ukraine, Frédérick Lavoie explores the roots of that conflict.
War and military
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Author:Lavoie, FrédérickSummary: - Author:Gough, BarrySummary:
In August 1914, Canada found itself jolted from its splendid isolation by the onrush of a European catastrophe. In Victoria, British Columbia, five hundred youth who had been educated at Victoria High School went to war and were forever...
- Author:Ansary, TamimSummary:
Today, most Westerners still see the war in Afghanistan as a contest between democracy and Islamist fanaticism. That war is real, but it sits atop an older struggle between Kabul and the countryside, between order and chaos, between a...
- Author:Tougias, Mike, Stanton, DougSummary:
On July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. Close to 900 sailors were cast into the Pacific Ocean. They struggled to stay alive, fighting off sharks, hypothermia, and hallucinations.
- Author:Philbrick, NathanielSummary:
The thrilling story of the year that won the Revolutionary War from the New York Times bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea and Valiant Ambition In the fall of 1780, after five frustrating years of war, George Washington had...
- Author:Takeda, KayokoSummary:
In order to ensure its absolute authority, the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal (1946–1948), the Japanese counterpart of the Nuremberg Trial, adopted a three-tier structure for its interpreting: Japanese nationals interpreted the proceedings,...
- Author:Usher, Peter J.Summary:
Joey Jacobson, a young Jewish man from Westmount on the Island of Montreal, trained as a navigator and bomb-aimer in Western Canada. On arriving in England he was assigned to No. 106 Squadron, a British unit tasked with the bombing of...
- Author:Dugard, Martin, O'Reilly, BillSummary:
In the eleventh audiobook in the multimillion-selling Killing series, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard reveal the startling, dramatic story of the global war against terrorists. In Killing The Killers, #1 bestselling authors Bill O...
- Author:Hipworth, Sarah, Stewart, LukeSummary:
In February 2004 the first of many U.S. soldiers came to Canada, seeking sanctuary after saying "no" to the war on Iraq. Unlike the Vietnam War when over 40,000 draft dodgers and military deserters successfully struggled to make Canada...
- Author:Welldon, ChristineSummary:
African-American serviceman Lanier Phillips was just eighteen years old when he was rescued from a sinking warship off the coast of Newfoundland in 1942 – a turn of events that transformed his life and ignited a lasting passion for...
- Author:Olson, LynneSummary:
The little-known true story of Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, the woman who headed the largest spy network in occupied France during World War II, from the best-selling author of Citizens of London and Last Hope IslandIn 1941 a 31-year-old...
- Author:Raby Dunne, Susan, Morrison, EdwardSummary:
The never-before-published memoir of Major-General Sir Edward Morrison, a true Canadian hero of the First World War.The First World War marked a turning point in Canadian history and in Canada’s self-identification as a nation. Yet in...
- Author:Todenhöfer, JürgenSummary:
An alarming and enlightening first-hand account of what’s really going on behind the borders of the Islamic State.
ISIS, IS, the Islamic State. The name is chilling. The images are horrific. This is a group that beheads... - Author:Tennyson, Brian DouglasSummary:
When the First World War ended in 1918, its profound impact did not. The war continued to haunt a nation. Nova Scotia at War, 1915-1919 is an in-depth study of Nova Scotia's role that was, at the time, the most traumatic collective...
- Author:Corera, GordonSummary:
Gordon Corera presents the untold story of how British intelligence secretly used homing pigeons as part of a clandestine espionage operation to gather information, communicate, and coordinate with members of the Resistance to defeat...
- Author:Perron, SandraSummary:
Sandra Perron, Canada's first female infantry officer, describes her experiences serving in the Canadian Forces, including the harassment she suffered during training and her deployments to Bosnia and Croatia.
- Author:Jackson, Jeffrey H.Summary:
A Nazi resistance story like none you've ever heard or read. Hampton Sides, author of Ghost Soldiers and On Desperate Ground ;Every page is gripping, and the amount of new research is nothing short of mind-boggling. A brilliant book for...
- Author:Leach, NormanSummary:
Always remember . . . When the Canadians were called to the front line in the fall of 1917, the battle for Flanders had become a stalemate. Repeated assaults by Allied armies had gained nothing while costing tens of thousands of lives....
- Author:Sontag, SusanSummary:
Watching the evening news offers constant evidence of atrocity--a daily commonplace in our "society of spectacle." But are viewers inured--or incited--to violence by the daily depiction of cruelty and horror? Is the viewer's perception...
- Author:Palmisciano, Nick, Kennedy, TimSummary:
From decorated Green Beret sniper, UFC headliner, and all around badass, Tim Kennedy, a rollicking, inspirational memoir offering lessons in how to embrace failure and weather storms, in order to unlock the strongest version of yourself...
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