c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period)

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Un bisou coquelicot

By (author) Marie-France Comeau
Illustrated by Jean-Luc Trudel
Categories: Children’s picture books

Aly passe le jour du Souvenir avec son arrière-grand-père. Ce dernier s’est fait tout beau, béret sur la tête et médailles bien alignées sur sa poitrine de vétéran. Cling, clang, cling... Une ...

Du beurre ou des canons

Ce livre explore l’expérience de la faim et des privations, constitutive de l’histoire allemande au début du XXe siècle, ainsi que le reflet de cette expérience dans la mémoire sociale, comprise ...

Canada at War

By (author) J.L. Granatstein
Categories: Second World War

Canada at War examines the impact of both world wars on Canada and Canadians by examining conscription, foreign policy, and politics, with William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada’s longest-serving prime ...

The Taste of Longing

By (author) Suzanne Evans
Categories: Second World War

Half a world away from her home on Manitoulin Island, Ethel Mulvany is starving in Singapore’s infamous Changi Prison, along with hundreds of other women jailed there as POWs during the Second World ...

La mauvaise mère

Marguerite Andersen a huit ans quand Hitler prend le pouvoir, quinze quand la Seconde Guerre mondiale éclate, vingt au lendemain de l’armistice. Yeux baissés devant l’horreur, toute à sa soif de ...

Gorgeous War

By (author) Tim Blackmore
Categories: Second World War

Gorgeous War examines ways in which modernist design ideals influenced German and American heraldry, and argues that the two visual worlds form the foundations of contemporary corporate brand programs. ...

Land Beyond the Sea

By (author) Kevin Major
Categories: Historical fiction

**CANADA BOOK AWARD WINNER**
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In the small hours of October 14, 1942, a German U-boat sank ...

Emperor's Orphans, The

By (author) Sally Ito
Categories: Second World War

From the shadows of postwar Canada and Japan to the vast Canadian prairies of the new millennium, The Emperor’s Orphans explores cultural identity through movements of place and voice. The story Sally ...

Forged in Fire

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Surmonter l’épreuve : Canada et la Seconde Guerre mondiale
9781988282015

The Second World War transformed Canada and its place in the world. The outbreak of war in September ...

Traitors of Camp 133, The

By (author) Wayne Arthurson
Categories: Second World War

Captain Mueller is dead. Hanged, apparently, by his own hand. But ex-police officer and war hero Sergeant August Neumann doesn’t think it’s quite so simple. How could it be, with blackshirts, legionnaires, ...