Dundurn: 2215 books
Extraordinary Experiences
Personal Accounts of the Paranormal in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2004
When did you last have a psychic experience? Are you in the habit of seeing – or sensing – the presence of spirits and ghost? Have you ever spotted a lake monster or sighted a UFO? When did you last consult a fortune-teller, approach a medium work an Ouija board, or read an astrology column? Have...
No Ordinary Men
Special Operations Forces Missions in Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2016
The first in-depth book that sheds light on Canada’s elite warriors who operate in the shadows.
In 2001, the Canadian government sent elements of its Joint Task Force 2 counterterrorist unit to Afghanistan to assist the Americans with Operation Enduring Freedom and the global war on terror....
Combat Mission Kandahar
The Canadian Experience in Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2016
Seven soldiers. Seven military specialties. Seven stories.
What was it like to serve in the combat mission in Afghanistan? Journalists’ reports from 2006 to 2011 could only give brief glimpses of the reality on the ground for Canadian soldiers. This book reveals the full story of what happened...
Canadian Forces in Afghanistan 3-Book Bundle
No Easy Task / No Ordinary Men / No Lack of Courage
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2016
Canadian Forces, including Special Operations Forces, have played an outsize role in the conflict in Afghanistan, often under a cloak of secrecy. For the first time, Col. Bernd Horn reveals the stories of the troops and operations behind Canada’s pivotal involvement in the Afghanistan conflict.
No...
Triumph at Kapyong
Canada’s Pivotal Battle in Korea
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
Afghanistan is not Canada’s first war in Asia. We’ve been there before, a half century ago … in Korea. And it was a meat grinder, scarcely remembered now … a war in which on one hilltop, on one April night, freshly-minted Canadians soldiers made a desperate stand that prevented catastrophe....
Men of Steel
Canadian Paratroopers in Normandy, 1944
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2010
Take a trip back in time to the chaos and destruction of the greatest invasion in military history, viewed through the lens of Canadian paratroopers. Men of Steel is the exciting story of some of Canada's toughest and most daring soldiers in the Second World War.
In the dead of night, on 5/6...
Stolen Child
A Mother's Journey to Rescue Her Son from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2016
A year in the desperate life of a boy transformed by OCD from a bright ten-year-old into a stranger in his own skin.
Although Laurie Gough was an intrepid traveller who had explored wild, far-off reaches of the globe, the journey she and her family took in their own home in their small Quebec...
No Lack of Courage
Operation Medusa, Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
No Lack of Courage is the story of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's Operation Medusa, the largely Canadian action in Afghanistan from 1 to 17 September 2006, to dislodge a heavily entrenched Taliban force in the Pashmul district of Afghanistans Kandahar Province. At stake, according to senior...
by Audrey Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Nominated for the 2016 Forest of Reading Evergreen Award
Nominated for the 2014 Victoria Book Prize
An Englishwoman’s mysterious death in 19th-century West Africa haunts those left behind.
Letitia Landon, "Letty" to her friends, is an intelligent, witty, successful writer,...
Silver Totem of Shame
A Meg Harris Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
On Haida Gwaii, Meg unravels a story of betrayal that reaches back more than a century.
While visiting Vancouver, Meg Harris encounters the crime scene of a murdered Haida carver. She and her husband Eric are forced to confront Eric’s painful past when the young victim’s identity is discovered....
Of Courage and Determination
The First Special Service Force, "The Devil's Brigade," 1942–44
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
In the dark, early days of the Second World War, the Allies found themselves with their backs against the wall. With their armies, tactics, doctrine, and equipment in tatters, the Allies turned to special operations forces to carry the fight to the Axis enemy until their conventional forces could...
Second to None
The Fighting 58th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2002
One of only fifty infantry battalions to see action with the Canadian Expeditionary Force during World War I, the 58th nevertheless had no official history. Second to None tells the story of this important, yet forgotten, battalion. The soldiers who formed the 58th exemplified the ideal citizen soldiers...
by Pier Paolo Battistelli
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2016
The Second Battle of El Alamein was one of the most decisive Allied victories of the Second World War.
The Second Battle of El Alamein marked a major turning point in the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War.
El Alamein saw two of the greatest generals of the war pitted against...
Home Children Bundle
The Golden Bridge / The Little Immigrants / Mary Janeway / Nation Builders / Whatever Happened to Mary Janeway?
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2013
In the early years after Confederation in Canada, the rising nation needed workers that could take advantage of the abundant resources. Until the time of the Depression, 100,000 impoverished children from the British Isles were sent overseas by well-meaning philanthropists to solve the colony’s...