In the summer of 1940, following France's surrender to Germany, Casablanca was transformed from an exotic travel destination to a key military target. It soon became rife with rogue soldiers, Jewish refugees, celebrities, and Nazi...
World War (1939-1945)
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Author:Hindley, MeredithSummary: -
Author:Webb, BettySummary:Things are never easy for Scottsdale private eye Lena Jones. Her partner in Desert Investigations, Jimmy Siswan, is leaving for an upscale wife and a job at Sun Microsystems. Her old Captain at the Scottsdale Police Department is off...
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Author:Cavanaugh, JackSummary:American nurse Annie Mitchell has seen the horrors of World War II firsthand. Aiding wounded soldiers fresh from the battlefield, she strongly believes that the enemy is an unholy, bestial force. When she agrees to participate in a...
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Author:Ambrose, Stephen E.Summary:Chronicles the events, politics, and personalities of that pivotal day in World War II, shedding light on the strategies of commanders on both sides as well as the ramifications of the battle.
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Author:Hayes, GeoffreySummary:In 1943, General Harry Crerar noted that there was still much confusion as to “what constitutes an ‘Officer.’” His words reflected the preoccupation of army officials with inventing an ideal officer who would not only meet the demands...
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Author:Frayn, MichaelSummary:The Tony Award—winning play that soars at the intersection of science and art, Copenhagen is an explosive re-imagining of the mysterious wartime meeting between two Nobel laureates to discuss the atomic bomb.
In 1941 the German...
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In the spring of 1990, Mathias Finne tu s himself in at a police station in Moscow to confess to a murder he apparently committed in the last days of the Second World War in Bo holm, Denmark. In an interview with a police inspector,...
- Author:Debreczeni, JózsefSummary:
"Cold Crematorium is an indispensable work of literature, and a historical document of unsurpassed importance. It should be required reading." —Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything Is Illuminated The first English...
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Author:Bruchac, JosephSummary:After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue....
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Author:Cross, L.D.Summary:In late 1942, Britain was desperate to win the ongoing Battle of the Atlantic. German U-boats had sunk hundreds of Allied ships containing millions of tons of cargo that was needed to continue the war effort. Prime Minister Churchill...
- Author:Borys, David A.Summary:
Civilians at the Sharp Endfollows the story of the Civil Affairs branch through France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany in 1944–45. Borys demonstrates that while the Canadian Army was indeed concerned for the welfare of civilians...
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Author:Mah, Adeline YenSummary:During the Japanese occupation of parts of China, twelve-year-old Ye Xian is thrown out of her father's and stepmother's home, joins a martial arts group, and tries to help her aunt and the Americans in their struggle against...
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Author:Gruner, WendySummary:Children of a Faraway War tells the story of Wendy and Robbie, two Australian-born sisters, now in their seventies, and their life-changing quest to learn the truth about their father who died in England in World War II while serving in...
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Author:Silko, LeslieSummary:Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the horrors of captivity have almost eroded his will to survive. His return to the Laguna Pueblo reservation only increases his feeling of...
- Author:Frank, Elizabeth BalesSummary:
For a young woman of exceptional intelligence and courage, being sequestered from the dangers of WW2 on the idyllic island of Bermuda is maddening. She is determined to get into the fight-then the fight is brought to her. Lucy Barrett...
- Author:Jensen, Kurt F.Summary:
Kurt F. Jensen argues that Canada was a more active intelligence partner in the Second World War alliance than has previously been suggested. He describes Canada's contributions to Allied intelligence before the war began, as well as...
- Author:Gray, LarrySummary:
The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest sustained conflict of the Second World War, a critical fight for the Allies to stop Nazi U-boats and other warships from sinking supply ships to Europe. Canadians played a vital role in that...
- Author:Gray, LarrySummary:
The stories of Canada's top pilots of World War II continue to amaze and inspire us. From Dick Audet, the only Spitfire pilot to ever claim five kills in a single sortie to Russell Russ Bannock who shot down 19 V-1 rocket bombs in his...
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Author:Hemingway, ErnestSummary:Across three continents and four decades...here is Hemingway -- the adventurer, the reporter, the man! More intimately than all his fiction, Hemingway the reporter reveals Hemingway the man -- driving an ambulance through a bullet-...
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Author:Delany, VickiSummary:Former novelist Elaine Benson is helping an elderly spinster write a memoir of her years with the Canadian Army Nursing Sisters of WWII when she discovers that the writer hired before her died under suspicious circumstances.
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