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Product Description: Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Women's Studies. Still sassy, Doris Gregory takes the reader back over seventy years to when she joined the Canadian Women's Army Corps during WWII. Her memoir allows us to travel with her across the Atlantic at the height of the U-boat infestation and to take refuge in underground shelters while bombs fall on London...read more
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9781553803171 | Ronsdale Pr, June 6, 2014, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Literary Nonfiction.
Product Description: Lt. Col. J. Laurence (Laurie) Black (1900â1992) graduated from RMC in 1921 and began his career as a reserve officer with the 8th Hussars (NB). He went active and overseas as second-in-command of the regiment in 1941. As a result of a family tragedy, he took what he thought was a temporary transfer back to Canada in 1942...read more
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9781926804149, titled "Black's War: From New Brunswick's 8th Hussars to California's Corlett's 'Long Knives' 1941-44" | Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr, May 1, 2013, cover price $39.99 | About this edition: Lt.
Product Description: This is the remarkable tale of a long-forgotten letter. It was written from Germany in the aftermath of the Second World War to a Canadian in a peaceful Southern Ontario town. Both had been soldiers and had met on a German battlefield...read more
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9781554889686 | Dundurn Pr Ltd, October 24, 2011, cover price $26.99 | About this edition: This is the remarkable tale of a long-forgotten letter.
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9781906502980 | Reprint edition (Grub Street the Basement, August 19, 2011), cover price $18.95
9781853674877 | Greenhill Books/Lionel Leventhal, April 1, 2002, cover price $19.95
Product Description: A POW's Journey from Hell to Freedom"His story exemplifies the courage and integrity of the generation that sacrificed so much for the cause of freedom ... The greatest single attribute these men who enlisted possessed was the virtue of high moral character and a willingness to do their duty ...read more
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9781118109687 | Harpercollins Canada, June 20, 2011, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: A POW's Journey from Hell to Freedom"His story exemplifies the courage and integrity of the generation that sacrificed so much for the cause of freedom .
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9781118109694 | Harpercollins Canada, June 28, 2011, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A POW's Journey from Hell to Freedom"His story exemplifies the courage and integrity of the generation that sacrificed so much for the cause of freedom .
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9781462022892 | Iuniverse Inc, June 14, 2011, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Rosy: The Biography of a Canadian Solider tells the life story of Rosino "Rosy" Gagliardi.
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9780198158189, titled "Practicing Translation in Renaissance France: The Example of Etienne Dolet" | Clarendon Pr, January 1, 1989, cover price $69.00 | also contains Practicing Translation in Renaissance France: The Example of Etienne Dolet
The gripping story of the twentieth centuryâs greatest struggle in the modest voice of a Canadian teenager in the RAF.In 1940, nineteen-year-old Howard Hewer dreamed of being the next Billy Bishop, of piloting Spitfires or Hurricanes over Europe. His dream was shattered when he was selected instead for a career as a wireless operator in Bomber Command.But he got all the adventure he signed on for. Hewer and his crews of 218 and 148 Squadrons flew important night operations over Germany and North Africa, dropping their deadly payloads and dodging enemy flak.And he was not always much safer on the ground. He survived the Blitz in London, a U-boat attack in the South Atlantic, a fire-fight with Italian troops near el-Alamien, as well as chaste love affairs, fistfights, and beers with Boer rebels.Self-deprecating, bittersweet, and alive to both the horrors of war and the friendships and courage of the men and women who fight it, In for a Penny, In for a Pound is the unforgettable story of a young Canadianâs experience of historyâs greatest war.
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9780773732735 | Ill edition (Stoddart Pub, December 1, 2000), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: The gripping story of the twentieth centuryâs greatest struggle in the modest voice of a Canadian teenager in the RAF.
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9780385660778, titled "In for a Penny, In for a Pound: The Adventures and Misadventures of a Wireless Operator in Bomber Command" | Anchor Books, October 26, 2004, cover price $19.00
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9780889771574 | Canadian Plains Research Center, September 7, 2004, cover price $19.95
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9780919614758 | Dundurn Pr Ltd, August 1, 2000, cover price $28.99
Product Description: During World War II, thousands of Canadians left our country to fight for our Allies. Where they went and what they did has always been a question for some. Perhaps this book will give some answers. It deals with the experiences of an ordinary airman, a radio telephone operator, one of the many "ordinary people" who served their country in time of war...read more
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9780920474631 | Natural Heritage, June 30, 1990, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: During World War II, thousands of Canadians left our country to fight for our Allies.
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9780198158189 | Clarendon Pr, January 1, 1989, cover price $69.00 | also contains In for a Penny, In for a Pound: The Adventures and Misadventures of a Wireless Operator in Bomber Command
Product Description: The young girl from the Ottawa Valley who served as a nurse in North Africa with only a helmet of fresh water a day, the teenage soldier from Fredericton who stole pig swill to survive in a Hong Kong prisoner of war camp, the English woman who survived the sinking of the Athenia to become a war-bride, and an Alberta airman who crashed off the icy coast of Greenland, these are but only four of the thirty compelling personal accounts of war experiences...read more
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9780919670952 | Dundurn Pr Ltd, June 1, 1985, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: The young girl from the Ottawa Valley who served as a nurse in North Africa with only a helmet of fresh water a day, the teenage soldier from Fredericton who stole pig swill to survive in a Hong Kong prisoner of war camp, the English woman who survived the sinking of the Athenia to become a war-bride, and an Alberta airman who crashed off the icy coast of Greenland, these are but only four of the thirty compelling personal accounts of war experiences.
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