Winner of the 2012 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and finalist for the 2012 Governor General's Literary Award for English-Language Fiction In December of 1944, the Red Army entered Budapest to begin one of the bloodiest sieges of...
World War (1939-1945)
- Author:Dobozy, TamasSummary:
- Author:Kacer, KathySummary:
Lily Toufar and her family arrive in Shanghai in 1938, having fled from Nazi-occupied Vienna and the persecution of Jewish families like theirs. Shanghai is a strange place for a young European girl, but it is one of the few places in...
- Author:Harlow, Joan HiattSummary:
In 1942, fourteen-year-old Jill goes to stay with her grandmother on the coast of Maine, where she is introduced to the often gossipy nature of small-town life, and discovers that the war is closer than she thought.
- Author:Preus, MargiSummary:
In Nazi-occupied Norway, fourteen-year-old Espen joins the resistance movement, graduating from deliverer of illegal newspapers to courier and spy.
- Author:Gabaldon, DianaSummary:
A collection of seven short stories set in the Outlander universe, never before published together, including two original stories and featuring beloved character Jamie Fraser. BESEIGED: Protagonist is Lord John Grey, a secondary...
- Author:Watts, Irene N.Summary:
Eleven-year-old Marianne is fortunate. She one of the first two hundred Jewish children on the heroic rescue operation known as the Kindertransport, which arrived in London, England in December, 1938. With the outbreak of World War II...
- Author:Keneally, ThomasSummary:
Recreates the remarkable activities and courage of Oskar Schindler, a Catholic German industrialist who gambled everything to save as many Jews as possible from the Nazi death camps.
- Author:Edsel, Robert M.Summary:
Edsel provides an astonishing account of a little known American effort to save Italy's vast store of priceless monuments and art during World War II. While American warriors were fighting the length of the country, other Americans were...
- Author:Rosnay, Tatiana deSummary:
On the sixtieth anniversary of the 1942 roundup of Jews by the French police in the Vel d'Hiv section of Paris, American journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article on this dark episode during World War II and embarks on...
- Author:Conroy, RobertSummary:
After a devastating encounter with Japanese submarines at the Battle of Midway, American naval forces are left in disarray as Japan dominates the Pacific, but a bold plan for ambushing the Japanese offers the hope of giving the...
- Author:Kacer, KathySummary:
The story of the Reesers, a Jewish family who emigrated to Canada from Czechoslovakia on the eve of WWII. They fled the Nazis and left behind four valuable oil paintings. It would take years for the Reeser family, led by matriarch Mari...
- Author:Simpson, CraigSummary:
- Author:Renaud, Jean-BaptisteSummary:
Après avoir survécu, en compagnie de son ami, Luc-John, à diverses péripéties dans le premier tome des «Orphelins», Rémi s’enrôle dans l’armée canadienne, malgré son jeune âge, dans le but de retrouver Conrad, le trappeur. Commence...
- Author:Thomas, JoanSummary:
Winner, Commonwealth Writers Prize, Canada and the Caribbean, Amazon.ca First Novel Award, and On the Same Page, Manitoba Reads. Shortlisted, Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book, Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction, and...
- Author:Brewster, EvaSummary:
An account of the two years Eva Brewster spent in Hitler's concentration camps.
- Author:Katie FlynnSummary:
- Author:Taylor, LynneSummary:
Polish Orphans of Tengeru is the story of 123 Polish Catholic Displaced Person (DP) orphans who were brought to Canada from East Africa in 1949 as part of the settlement of the postwar DP crisis. They arrived in East Africa in a mass...
- Author:Blackwood, JessieSummary:
Prequel to Life Begins at Forty Addicted to the soaring skies, brash high-flier Arthur Edward “Jack” Ratigan returns to Britain to fly bombers when his birth country goes to war against Germany in World War II. It also means a return to...
- Author:Ollivier, EmileSummary:
Roman datmosphère et récit dun périple tragique, Passages cerne le drame des exilés haïtiens, dont la survie est la plupart du temps associée à la mort dêtres chers. Ode au courage et à la dignité, ce roman dÉmile Ollivier,...
- 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...