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Inside Canadian Intelligence
Exposing the New Realities of Espionage and International Terrorism, 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
Since 9/11, Canada has been on the front lines of a New World Order that few understand. And in today's world, secret intelligence is not just the first line of defence -- it may be the only one. Editor Dwight Hamilton has assembled a formidable cast of former intelligence officers and journalists...
What the Thunder Said
Reflections of a Canadian Officer in Kandahar
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
By every principle of war, every shred of military logic, logistics support to Canada's Task Force Orion in Afghanistan should have collapsed in July 2006. There are few countries that offer a greater challenge to logistics than Afghanistan, and yet Canadian soldiers lived through an enormous test...
by Diana Walsh
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2012
There is something about the loss of a child that everyone takes to heart. A lot of suffering happens in this world, but when it involves a child, it touches everyone all the more and it is tolerated all the less. Empty Cradle is the writer's personal recollection of the time leading up to and surrounding...
Death Wins in the Arctic
The Lost Winter Patrol of 1910
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
With prospectors, trappers, and whalers pouring into northwestern Canada, the North West Mounted Police were dispatched to the newest frontier to maintain patrols, protect indigenous peoples, and enforce laws in the North. In carrying out their duties, these intrepid men endured rigorous and dangerous...
Thunder in the Skies
A Canadian Gunner in the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2015
An extraordinary, newly discovered account from an ordinary Canadian on the ground in the crucial battles of the First World War.
What was it like to be a field gunner in the Great War?
Drawing on the unpublished letters and diary of field gunner Lt. Bert Sargent and his fellow soldiers,...
by Roger Gunn
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2013
Ever wondered what it would be like to fly a biplane or triplane in the First World War? Raymond Collishaw and the Black Flight takes you to the Western Front during the Great War. Experience the risks of combat and the many close calls Collishaw had as a pilot, flight commander, and squadron leader....
War Brides
The Stories of the Women Who Left Everything Behind to Follow the Men They Loved
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2009
For thousands of young British girls, the influx of Canadian soldiers conscripted to Britain during the Second World War meant throngs of handsome young men. The result was over 48,000 marriages to Canadian soldiers alone, and a mass emigration of British women to North America and around the world...
by Farley Mowat
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2016
The story of an astonishing band of Canadian soldiers and their part in the Allied victory in Italy.
The Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment (the Hasty Ps) was Canada’s most decorated regiment in the Second World War, winning thirty-one battle honours. Famed for their role in the Allied invasion...
by Stanley Scislowski
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1997
This is the story of a young man's journey through World War II. It covers a wide cross section of the strengths and weaknesses of young men not attuned to killing, and not mentally prepared to face the horror of seeing their close friends die violent deaths in battle. The story is about the hopes,...
by Lance Goddard
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2007
Although it has been overshadowed by other events of the Second World War, Canada's role in the Italian Campaign, from 1943 to 1945, was significant. Canadian forces played a major role in this campaign, whose goal was to open a second front in order to ease the pressure on Russian forces in the east....
First Soldiers Down
Canada's Friendly Fire Deaths in Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2012
On April 18, 2002, Alpha Company, Third Battalion of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, was on a training exercise at Tarnak Farms, a former Taliban artillery range in southern Afghanistan. The exercise had been underway for nearly seven hours when two American fighter pilots flew overhead....
by Richard Rohmer
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2007
Ultimatum 2 is an action-packed, fast-moving saga. The American president is fed up with the hundreds of millions of dollars given to Russia to clean up high-level nuclear waste. His solution is to give the Russians an ultimatum: do this my way, or else! It is delivered in person by the secretary...
The Paris Game
Charles de Gaulle, the Liberation of Paris, and the Gamble that Won France
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2014
At a crucial moment in the Second World War, an obscure French general reaches a fateful personal decision: to fight on alone after his government’s flight from Paris and its capitulation to Nazi Germany.
Amid the ravages of a world war, three men — a general, a president, and a prime minister...
by Sharon Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2015
A Globe and Mail Bestseller!
Clara Durling, a British widow of the First World War, arrives in Canada as the new superintendent of the Lethbridge Hospital just as wounded soldiers stream home. Lily Parsons is a young, widowed schoolteacher from Nova Scotia who ends up in the same city, managing...