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“bryan davies”

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  • A Boy from Botwood

    Pte. A.W. Manuel, Royal Newfoundland Regiment, 1914-1919

    by Bryan Davies, Andrew Traficante ...
    A proud Newfoundland soldier’s memoir gives unprecedented details of life as a German POW during the First World War.I’m going to tell my story. With those words, eighty-three-year-old Arthur Manuel set his remarkable First World War memoir in motion.Like many Great War veterans, Manuel had never discussed his wartime life with anyone. Hidden in the Manuel family records until its 2011 discovery ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Yogi

    by Bryan Davies ...
    Hunangofiant dirdynnol Yogi, y chwaraewr rygbi a barlyswyd wrth chwarae rygbi i'r Bala. Dyma un o straeon tristaf ac anoddaf y byd rygbi yn y blynyddoedd diwethaf. Roedd Yogi yn 49 oed, ac yn chwarae ei gem olaf i'r Bala, lle gwnaed ef yn gapten am y dydd, ond o fewn deg eiliad, chwalwyd ei fywyd yn llwyr. Datgymalodd sgrym gynta'r gem, a thorrodd Yogi ei wddwg.The traumatic autobiography of Yogi, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Secret History of Soldiers

    How Canadians Survived the Great War

    by Tim Cook ...
    There have been thousands of books on the Great War, but most have focused on commanders, battles, strategy, and tactics. Less attention has been paid to the daily lives of the combatants, how they endured the unimaginable conditions of industrial warfare: the rain of shells, bullets, and chemical agents. In The Secret History of Soldiers, Tim Cook, Canada's foremost military historian, examines ... Read more

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  • And We Go On

    A Memoir of the Great War

    by Will R. Bird ...
    Series Book 229 - Carleton Library Series
    In the autumn of 1915 Will Bird was working on a farm in Saskatchewan when the ghost of his brother Stephen, killed by German mines in France, appeared before him in uniform. Rattled, Bird rushed home to Nova Scotia and enlisted in the army to take his dead brother's place. And We Go On is a remarkable and harrowing memoir of his two years in the trenches of the Western Front, from October 1916 ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Camp 13: Working in the Lumber Woods

    Working in the Lumber Woods

    by Byron White ...
    Inspired by True Events “Men who weren’t hard workers didn’t last long at the lumber woods.” Most people in Newfoundland and Labrador have someone in their family who has worked “in the woods.” Some of these workers were employed seasonally—they fished in the summer and headed to the lumber camps in the winter—while others were full-time loggers who worked year-round. Stan White runs Camp 13 on ... Read more

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  • The Good Allies

    How Canada and the United States Fought Together to Defeat Fascism during the Second World War

    by Tim Cook ...
    From our country's most important war historian, a gripping account of the turbulent relationship between Canada and the US during the Second World War. The two nations entered the war amidst rivalry and mutual suspicion, but learned to fight together before emerging triumphant and bound by an alliance that has lasted to this day.When the Second World War broke out in 1939, it set in motion a ... Read more

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  • The Fight for History

    75 Years of Forgetting, Remembering, and Remaking Canada's Second World War

    by Tim Cook ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE OTTAWA BOOK AWARDSA masterful telling of the way World War Two has been remembered, forgotten, and remade by Canada over seventy-five years.The Second World War shaped modern Canada. It led to the country's emergence as a middle power on the world stage; the rise of the welfare state; industrialization, urbanization, and population growth. After the war, Canada ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Dam Busters

    Canadian Airmen and the Secret Raid Against Nazi Germany

    by Ted Barris ...
    National BestsellerForeword by Peter Mansbridge“Barris tells the jaw-dropping story of a night that changed the war.” —The Globe and MailIt was a night that changed the Second World War. The secret air raid against the hydroelectric dams of Germany’s Ruhr River took years to plan, involved an untried bomb and included the best aircrewmen RAF Bomber Command could muster—many of them Canadian. The ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Vimy

    The Battle and the Legend

    by Tim Cook ...
    A bold new telling of the defining battle of the Great War, and how it came to signify and solidify Canada's national identity.Why does Vimy loom so large in Canada's identity—and should it? Tim Cook, Canada's foremost military historian and a RBC Taylor Prize winner, examines the battle of Vimy Ridge in April 1917 and the way the memory of it has evolved over a hundred years. Vimy is unlike any ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • A Soldier's Place

    The War Stories of Will R. Bird

    by Will R. Bird ...
    A collection of World War I short fiction by the author of the memoir And We Go On.Nova Scotia–born Will R. Bird miraculously survived the First World War and returned to Nova Scotia. Determined to tell the stories of the brave soldiers who served, Bird became one of the most prolific authors on the subject, completing works of both fiction and nonfiction. For nearly two decades following the war, ... Read more

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  • Fight to the Finish

    Canadians in the Second World War, 1944-1945

    by Tim Cook ...
    Series Book 4 - Canadians Fighting
    **Winner of the 2016 Ottawa Book AwardThe magisterial second volume of Tim Cook's definitive account of Canadians fighting in the Second World War.**Historian Tim Cook displays his trademark storytelling ability in the second volume of his masterful account of Canadians in World War II. Cook combines an extraordinary grasp of military strategy with a deep empathy for the soldiers on the ground, at ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Mysteries, Legends and Myths of the First World War

    Canadian soldiers in the trenches and in the air

    by Cynthia J. Faryon ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    This book offers a fresh, close-up look at the First World War as it was experienced by ordinary Canadian soldiers. This is the war as it was experienced by the tens of thousands of young Canadians. Reading their accounts offers a no-holds-barred picture of fighting, life in the trenches, the human cost in lives lost, and the physical and emotional aftermath for survivors. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD