Life Savers and Body Snatchers by Dr. Tim Cook
From Tim Cook, Canada’s top war historian, comes a definitive medical history of the Great War.
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In Our Youth by Angus Scully
In Our Youth explores the lives of thirty-two young Canadian military and civilian flyers, viewed through the medium of archival photography.
The Boy’s Marble by Nastaša Nuhanović
The Boy’s Marble tells the story of experiencing a war through the eyes of a child. Separated as children during the Sarajevo Siege, the narrator meeets someone who reminds her of the boy even twenty years later in Montreal, Canada.
What Is Written on the Tongue by Anne Lazurko
Anne Lazurko’s “What is Written on the Tongue” is a transportive historical novel about finding morality in the throes of war and colonization.
The Gunsmith’s Daughter by Margaret Sweatman
The Gunsmith’s Daughter is both a coming-of-age story and an allegorical novel about Canada-US relations. Psychologically and politically astute, and gorgeously written, Margaret Sweatman’s portrait of a brilliant gunsmith and his eighteen-year-old daughter tells an engrossing story of ruthless ambition, and one young woman’s journey toward independence.
Letters Across the Sea by Genevieve Graham
Best-selling historical romance/fiction writer Genevieve Graham is back after the huge success of The Forgotten …
La Brigantessa by Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli
Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli’s ambitious debut novel, La Brigantessa has already garnered awards and nominations, such …
Patriots, Traitors and Empires: The Story of Korea’s Struggle for Freedom by Stephen Gowans
[dropcap]Of[/dropcap] all the wars fought in the twentieth century, the one I was least familiar …
Letters from Beauly: Pat Hennessy and the Canadian Forestry Corps in Scotland, 1940-1945 by Melynda Jarratt
[dropcap]During [/dropcap]the Second World War, hundreds of New Brunswick woodsmen joined the Canadian Forestry Corps …
Beaumont Hamel, Newfoundland Park by Nigel Cave
The Battle of the Somme was one of the bloodiest battles of WWI. Over one …
Only by Blood by Renate Krakauer
World War II. Christians. Jews. Nazis. Poles. Families destroyed, separated, torn apart. These are the background themes to Renate Krakauer’s debut novel Only by Blood (Inanna Publications, 2015). The story ferries back and forth between the past and present as different cultures, faiths and families intersect.
A Beckoning War by Matthew Murphy
According to statistics released by the American Veteran’s Administration, U.S. WWII veterans are dying at …
Remembrance by Alistair MacLeod
Remembrance by Alistair MacLeod My Goodreads rating: 5 of 5 stars This was my first …