It was a lovely summer's day - perfect for a garden party. Everything seemed at peace for the Jordan family. But by the time the party was over, the Jordan's tranquil existence was shattered. The year was 1936 and Richard, the only son...
War fiction
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Author:Crane, TeresaSummary: - Author:Steel, DanielleSummary:
Nineteen-year-old Annabelle Worthington was born into a life of privilege, raised amid the glamour of New York society, with glorious homes on Fifth Avenue and in Newport, Rhode Island. But everything changed on a cold April day in 1912...
- Author:Béchard, Deni EllisSummary:
A time warp into the strange and painful life of men past, present, and future. The second time Andrew sees his half-brother, Hugh, is at their father's funeral. Andrew has little interest in the father with whom he grew up, but...
- Author:Martin, MelanieSummary:
A Royal Newfoundland Regiment Love Story
In the summer of 1914, Daniel Beresford’s innocent love affair with the merchant’s daughter is discovered, forcing him to make an impossible decision to save his family from financial ruin...
- Author:Bird, SarahSummary:
Set on the island of Okinawa today and during World War II, this deeply moving and evocative novel tells the entwined stories of two teenage girls-an American and an Okinawan-whose lives are connected across 70 years by the shared...
- Author:Acland, Peregrine, Busby, Brian, Calhoun, James R., Ford, Ford MadoxSummary:
One of Canada’s most painful and breathtaking pictures of a soldier’s life during the First World War. Peregrine Acland’s novel All Else Is Folly is an irreplaceable depiction of the Canadian experience in the First World War. More than...
- Author:Remarque, Erich MariaSummary:
Paul Baumer is just 19 years old when he and his classmates enlist. They are Germany's Iron Youth who enter the war with high ideals and leave it disillusioned or dead. As Paul struggles with the realities of the man he has become, and...
- Author:Doerr, AnthonySummary:
*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES-from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant...
- Author:Morgan, JenniferSummary:
In the early hours of October 14, 1942, under cover of darkness, the German submarine U-69 torpedoed and sank the passenger ferry SS Caribou off the southwest coast of Port aux Basques, Newfoundland.
Now, seventy years later,...
- Author:El Akkad, OmarSummary:
Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, that unmanned drones fill the sky. And when her father is...
- Author:Young, Robert J.Summary:
While Canadian history professor Andrew Stanhope is doing research in Paris on the German invasion of France in 1940, he stumbles upon an odd and long-lost exchange between Colonel Marius Michel, principal deputy in France's counter-...
- Author:Novakovich, JosipSummary:
Ivan Dolinar is born in Tito's Yugoslavia on April Fool's Day, 1948 -- the auspicious beginning of a life that will be derailed by backfiring good intentions in a world of propaganda and paranoia. At age nineteen, an innocent prank cuts...
- Author:Langridge, ElizabethSummary:
Told in two volumes, Arise the Dead--part memoir, part historical fiction--spans the period between 1914 and 1945. The two books concentrate on the lives of real people--the author's parents, the author, a young pilot from New Jersey in...
- Author:Langridge, ElizabethSummary:
Told in two volumes, Arise the Dead--part memoir, part historical fiction--spans the period between 1914 and 1945. The two books concentrate on the lives of real people--the author's parents, the author, a young pilot from New...
- Author:Osburn, ChazSummary:
A fierce predator. A determined young officer...An incredible plan to change the course of WWII...As Germany's U-boat wolf packs prey mercilessly on Allied convoys, Winston Churchill and his military advisors realize that if they don't...
- Author:Lemaître, PierreSummary:
"Pour le commerce, la guerre présente beaucoup d'avantages, même après." Au lendemain du plus grand carnage du xxe siècle, deux rescapés des tranchées, passablement abîmés, prennent leur revanche en réalisant une...
- Author:Lawrence, IainSummary:
In the spring of 1943, sixteen-year-old Kak, desperate to escape his abusive parents, lies about his age to enlist in the Canadian Air Force and soon finds himself based in England as part of a crew flying bombing raids over Germany....
- Author:Colla, ElliottSummary:
The United States occupation of Iraq is a swamp of incompetence and self-delusion. The CPA has disbanded the Iraqi army and police as a consequence of its paranoid policy of de-Ba'athification of Iraqi society. Tales of hubris and...
- Author:Florence, ElinorSummary:
A Toronto Star Bestseller! Rose, a Canadian intelligence officer in Britain in World War II, struggles with conflicting feelings about the war and a superior’s attention. Rose Jolliffe is an idealistic young woman living on a farm...
- Author:Sapergia, BarbaraSummary:
The time is World War I, and Canadian soldiers are proving their worth in the trenches of Europe. But on the home front, Ukrainian Canadians are being sent to internment camps, "Canada's gulag". Blood and Salt is about this forgotten...
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