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Doublespeak

Doublespeak

A Novel
by Alisa Smith
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Lieutenant Lena Stillman has been left, nearly alone, on her code-breaking mission in remote Alaska. World War II has been over for a month, but due to crimes committed a lifetime ago, Lena is still under the control of the powerful Miss Maggie, her spymaster in Washington, DC.

Shaken by her role in the disappearance of Corporal Link Hughes, Lena ye …

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The Cinderella Campaign

The Cinderella Campaign

First Canadian Army and the Battles for the Channel Ports
by Mark Zuehlke
edition:Hardcover
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They thought of themselves as the "Cinderella Army," and international correspondents agreed. This was because First Canadian Army had been relegated to the left flank of the Allied advance toward Germany from the Normandy beaches and given the tough, thankless task of opening the Channel ports from Le Havre to Ostend in Belgium. Then suddenly in e …

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All the Fine Young Eagles

All the Fine Young Eagles

In the Cockpit with Canada's Second World War Fighter Pilots
by David L. Bashow
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"Based on extensive interviewing, this is what used to be called a cracking good read, and Bashow, a Canadian Forces fighter pilot himself, can understand the emotions and reactions of his forebears."

--Quill & Quire

During the six years of the Second World War, Canadian fighter pilots flew and fought with great distinction in every theatre of war to …

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Through Blood and Sweat

Through Blood and Sweat

A Remembrance Trek across Sicily's World War II Battlegrounds
by Mark Zuehlke
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"We should not need [monuments] to picture a past battlefield and the horrors endured there. But their presence definitely helps to focus the mind, reinforce the solemnity of emotion that is so inherent in the act of remembrance."

Through Blood and Sweat takes readers on a memorable, thought-provoking 300-kilometre march in the footsteps taken by th …

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Forgotten Victory

Forgotten Victory

First Canadian Army and the Cruel Winter of 1944-45
by Mark Zuehlke
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During the winter of 1944–45, the western allies desperately sought a strategy that would lead to Germany's quick defeat. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers in trenches and dugouts suffered through the bitterest European winter in fifty years.

The Allied high command decided that First Canadian Army would launch the pivotal offensive to win the war …

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Historical Atlas of Canada

Historical Atlas of Canada

Canada's History Illustrated with Original Maps
by Derek Hayes
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"This is a gorgeous piece of work, rich and heavy and brimming with the minutiae of attempts to capture aspects of the Canadian landscape by cartography."
The Georgia Straight

Maps tells the story in this innovative volume, and the story of Canada they tell is profoundly engrossing and rewarding. The atlas covers a period of a thousand years and …

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Terrible Victory

Terrible Victory

First Canadian Army and the Scheldt Estuary Campaign: September 13 - November 6, 1944
by Mark Zuehlke
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BOOK SIX in the Canadian Battle Series

Terrible Victory is a gripping account of Canada's bloody liberation of western Holland, one of our finest, and most costly, military victories.

On September 4, 1944, Antwerp, Europe's largest port, fell to the Second British Army and it seemed the war would soon be won. But Antwerp was of little value unless th …

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Tragedy at Dieppe

Tragedy at Dieppe

Operation Jubilee, August 19, 1942
by Mark Zuehlke
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Now in paper! The gripping story of the Canadian Army's disastrous raid on Dieppe -- the tenth instalment of the bestselling Canadian Battle Series.

Nicknamed "the Poor Man's Monte Carlo," Dieppe had no strategic importance in World War II -- but the decision to assault it in August 1942 with the largest raid mounted to that date was political. With …

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Breakout from Juno

Breakout from Juno

First Canadian Army and the Normandy Campaign, July 4-August 21, 1944
by Mark Zuehlke
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The ninth book in the Canadian Battle Series, Breakout from Juno, is the first dramatic chronicling of Canada's pivotal role throughout the entire Normandy Campaign following the D-Day landings.

On July 4, 1944, the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division won the village of Carpiquet but not the adjacent airfield. Instead of a speedy victory, the men faced a …

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Afternoon Tea

Afternoon Tea

A Timeless Tradition
by Muriel Moffat
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A delectable peek at the tradition of afternoon tea at the Fairmont Empress Hotel -- and the enchanting history of taking tea

Muriel Moffat has been sipping tea at Victoria's storied Empress Hotel for 60 years -- and sharing all those lovely cups with four generations of Moffats. When she poured her love of all things tea into a darling little book, …

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Canada at War

Canada at War

A Graphic History of World War Two
by Paul Keery, illustrated by Michael Wyatt
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tagged : canada, world war ii, historical fiction

"This account emphasizes the human dimension of the struggle and features clean, realistic color art with ample text blocks as well as dialog. Intended for both adults and young adults, this should be useful in history classes throughout North America in addition to appealing to WWII buffs and aficionados of war comics." -- Library Journal

A beautif …

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And No Birds Sang

And No Birds Sang

by Farley Mowat
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Grade: 11
tagged : personal memoirs, world war ii, canada

Feisty icon; passionate Canadian; unrelenting foe of all pretension; energetic provocateur-at-large and most importantly, superb and dedicated writer, there cannot be a Canadian alive who is unaware of the legacy that is Farley Mowat. And No Bird Sang and A Whale for the Killing are the first books in a new Douglas & McIntyre library of handsomely …

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On to Victory

On to Victory

The Canadian Liberation of the Netherlands, March 23–May 5, 1945
by Mark Zuehlke
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BOOK EIGHT in the Canadian Battle Series.

 

On to Victory is the little-told story of the tense final days of World War II, remembered in the Netherlands as "the sweetest of springs," which saw the country's liberation from German occupation. The Liberation Campaign, a series of fierce, desperate battles during the last three months of the war, was b …

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Fog of War, The

Fog of War, The

Censorship of Canada's Media in World War Two
by Mark Bourrie
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Wartime secrets and the men charged with manipulating Canadian public opinion are unveiled for the first time in this riveting account of media censorship by the government during World War II.

The Canadian government censored the news during World War II for two main reasons: to keep military and economic secrets out of enemy hands and to prevent c …

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1494

1494

How a Family Feud in Medieval Spain Divided the World in Half
by Stephen Bown
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The true story involving a corrupt pope -- the patriarch of the family fictionalized in the hit Showtime series The Borgias -- in an explosive feud between monarchs and the Church that divided the world in half.

When Columbus triumphantly returned from America to Spain in 1493, his discoveries inflamed an already-smouldering conflict between Spain's …

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1494

1494

How a Family Feud in Medieval Spain Divided the World in Half
by Stephen R. Bown
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The true story involving a corrupt pope -- the patriarch of the family fictionalized in the hit Showtime series The Borgias -- in an explosive feud between monarchs and the Church that divided the world in half.

When Columbus triumphantly returned from America to Spain in 1493, his discoveries inflamed an already-smouldering conflict between Spain's …

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Horse that Leaps Through Clouds, The

Horse that Leaps Through Clouds, The

A Tale of Espionage, the Silk Road and the Rise of Modern China
by Eric Tamm
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"Overcoming all obstacles, enduring discomforts of deserts, mountains, and overcrowded buses, Tamm, with his historical and cultural perceptiveness, renders an exquisite portrait of continuities and contrasts in the regions Mannerheim and he traversed." -- Booklist

Two epic journeys along the Silk Road, past and present, offer a riveting and caution …

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On To Victory

On To Victory

The Canadian Liberation of the Netherlands, March 23 to May 5, 1945
by Mark Zuehlke
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"This volume, and indeed the entire [Canadian Battle] series, can only cement Zuehlke's position as among our foremost chroniclers of Canada at war." -- Globe and Mail

"Zuehlke's signature achievement has been to offer Canadians that missing story. He writes brilliantly...With On to Victory, Zuehlke continues building a canon all his own." -- Quill …

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The Horse that Leaps Through Clouds

The Horse that Leaps Through Clouds

A Tale of Espionage, the Silk Road and the Rise of Modern China
by Eric Tamm
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Two epic journeys along the Silk Road, past and present, offer a riveting and cautionary tale about the breathtaking rise of China.

 

On July 6, 1906, Baron Gustaf Mannerheim boarded the midnight train from St. Petersburg, charged by Czar Nicholas II to secretly collect intelligence on the Qing Dynasty's sweeping reforms that were radically transform …

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Operation Husky

Operation Husky

The Canadian Invasion of Sicily, July 10–August 7, 1943
by Mark Zuehlke
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Now available in paperback, book seven of the Canadian Battle Series.

 

On July 10, 1943, twenty thousand Canadian soldiers joined two great Allied armies on the beaches of southern Sicily for Operation Husky -- the first western Allied thrust to win a toehold inside HItler's Fortress Europe.

 

Guarding the renowned Eighth Army's left flank, 1st Canadi …

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Liri Valley, The

Liri Valley, The

Canada's World War II Breakthrough to Rome
by Mark Zuehlke
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The second book in the Canadian Battle series, details the Allied Armies fighting their way up the Italian boot in early 1944. Rome was the prize that could only be won through one of the greatest offensives of the war. Mark Zuehlke, following his book, Ortona, returns to the Mediterranean theatre of World War II with this gripping story of courage …

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Because We Are Canadians

Because We Are Canadians

A Battlefield Memoir
by Charles Kipp
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This is the story of one man's war -- the memoirs of Sgt. Charles D. Kipp, who served with the Canadian army on active duty in Europe during the bloody days and weeks following D-Day. What makes this work stand out from other Second World War battlefield journals is its unadorned, almost naive sense -- a guileless attention to small details, horrif …

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Immortal Beaver

Immortal Beaver

The World's Greatest Bush Plane
by Sean Rossiter
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Developed soon after World War II, in the heady days when the Canadian aircraft industry sought to employ its engineering talent and production capacity to build domestically designed aircraft, the de Havilland Beaver has become one of the most successful and long-lived designs in aviation history. Phil Garratt, the man in charge of de Havilland Ca …

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Juno Beach

Juno Beach

Canada's D-Day Victory
by Mark Zuehlke
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By dawn on June 6, 1944, the rough seas facing three small resort towns in Normandy bristled with an immense armada. More than 6,500 ships prepared to disembark Allied troops in a do-or-die effort: D-Day. The 14,500 Canadians among them were to take "Juno Beach," a five-mile-long stretch protected by a seawall, barbed wire, underwater obstacles, hu …

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Ortona

Ortona

Canada's Epic World War II Battle
by Mark Zuehlke
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In one blood-soaked, furious week fo fighting, from December 20 to December 27, 1943, the 1st Canadian Infantry Division took Ortona, Italy, from elite German paratroopers ordered to hold the medieval port town at all costs. Infantrymen serving in the Loyal Edmonton Regiment and the Seaforth Highlanders, supported by tankers of the Three Rivers Reg …

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Gothic Line, The

Gothic Line, The

Canada's Month of Hell in World War II Italy
by Mark Zuehlke
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Book three in the Canadian Battle Series. Stretching like an armour-toothed belt across Italy's upper thigh, the Gothic Line was the most fortified and fiercely defended position the German army had yet thrown in the path of the advancing Allied forces. On August 25, 1944, it fell to I Canadian Corps to spearhead the famed Eighth Army's major offen …

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Kasztner's Train

Kasztner's Train

The True Story of Rezso Kasztner, Unknown Hero of the Holocaust
by Anna Porter
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The true, heart-wrenching tale of Hungary's own Oskar Schindler, a lawyer and journalist named Rezso Kasztner who rescued thousands of Hungarian Jews during the last chaotic days of World War II -- and the ultimate price he paid.

 

In summer 1944, Rezso Kasztner met with Adolf Eichmann, architect of the Holocaust, in Budapest. With the Final Solution …

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The Fairmont Empress

The Fairmont Empress

The First Hundred Years
by Terry Reksten
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A celebration of a Victoria landmark, The Empress Hotel, in honour of its one-hundredth birthday.

Based on archival records, memoirs, reminiscences, newspaper accounts and over a hundred interviews, this book is the first full account of the glorious life and times of one the world's legendary hotels: Victoria's Fairmont Empress. Like its famous sib …

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The Gothic Line

The Gothic Line

Canada's Month of Hell in World War II Italy
by Mark Zuehlke
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BOOK TWO in the Canadian Battle Series

 

Stretching like an armour-toothed belt across Italy’s upper thigh, the Gothic Line was the most fortified and fiercely defended position the German army had yet thrown in the path of the advancing Allied forces. On August 25, 1944, it fell to I Canadian Corps to spearhead the famed Eighth Army’s major offe …

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Holding Juno

Holding Juno

Canada's Heroic Defence of the D-Day Beaches: June 7-12, 1944
by Mark Zuehlke
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Following his national best-seller, Juno Beach, and with his usual verve and narrative skill, historian Mark Zuehlke chronicles the crucial six days when Canadians saved the vulnerable beachheads they had won during the D-Day landings.

 

D-Day ended with the Canadians six miles inland�the deepest penetration achieved by Allied forces during this …

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The Liri Valley

The Liri Valley

Canada's World War II Breakthrough to Rome
by Mark Zuehlke
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BOOK TWO in the Canadian Battle Series

 

For the Allied Armies fighting their way up the Italian boot in early 1944. Rome was the prize that could only be won through one of the greatest offensives of the war. Mark Zuehlke, following his book, Ortona, returns to the Mediterranean theatre of World War II with this gripping story of courage in the face …

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Chosen Ones, The

Chosen Ones, The

Test Pilots in Action
by Sean Rossiter
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After Word War II, the best flyers brought their versatility to the exacting role of test pilot. The Chosen Ones puts you in the cockpit with these pilots as they make whatever can go wrong with an aircraft go wrong before anyone else flies it. These are their gripping tales -- most told here for the first time -- of taking unproven prototypes into …

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