Carve Her Name with Pride: Violette Szabo

Rubeigh James Minney

Children's Books

Collins

A concise overview, richly illustrated, of the historical background to the acclaimed Aubrey/Maturin novels.This book is a companion to Patrick O'Brian's sea novels, a straightforward exploration of what daily life in Nelson's navy was really like, for everyone from the captain down to the rawest recruit. What did they eat? What songs did they sing? What was the schedule of watches? How were the officers and crew paid, and what was the division of prize-money?   These questions and many more are answered in Patrick O'Brian's elegant narrative, which includes wonderful anecdotal material on the battles and commanders that established Britain's naval supremacy. Line drawings and charts help us to understand the construction and rigging of the great ships, the types and disposition of the guns, and how they were operated in battle. A number of contemporary drawings and cartoons illustrate aspects of naval life from the press gang to the scullery. Finally, a generous selection of full-color paintings render the majesty and the excitement of fleet actions in the age of fighting sail. Photographs, drawings, cartoons, charts, and full-color paintings

Men-of-War

History

O’Brian, Patrick

Military

The inspirational story of Douglas Bader, DSO, DFC.

Reach for the Sky: Story of Douglas Bader, D.S.O., D.F.C.

PAUL BRICKHILL

In 1941, the United States inaugurated a new military concept in the US Army: the tank destroyer. The term "tank destroyer" evolved into a broad concept containing personnel, equipment and units strike. This illustrated monograph demonstrates the flawed conception of the tank destroyer unit and gives credit to the American soldiers who still were able to successfully work inside its definition.

Seek, Strike and Destroy: U.S. Army Tank Destroyer Doctrine in World War II [Leavenworth Papers No. 12]

Christopher R. Gabel

Combat Studies Institute

Nuclear Submarine (The Inside Story)

Rossiter, Mike

HarperCollins, Publishers

The authors recognize Falaise as a hard-fought and terribly significant victory for the Allies, which runs contrary to most assessments of the Normandy battle. The Whitakers have always generated controversy with their books, and they prove that the German army -- far from escaping through what is known as the Falaise Gap -- were actually routed in Normandy. And the Canadians were there.

Victory at Falaise: The Soldier's Story

Whitaker, W. Denis

Harpercollins

The Trade Mission

Pyper, Andrew

Harper Flamingo

"He has enough of the devil in him to make a good fighter pilot."
That was the recommendation given by Arthur Bishop’s school headmaster in acharacter reference required by the RCAF for all new recruits. Just 18 years oldin 1941, Arthur Bishop, son of World War I flying ace Billy Bishop, was about tofulfill both his father’s proud legacy, and embark on the ride of his life.
Winged Combat takes us from Bishop’s first days as a green recruit,determined not to let his father’s military reputation influence histreatment, through the war years of 1943 and 1944 as a Spitfire pilot overEngland and France.Packed with anecdotes culled from his meticulous dairies, Winged Combatmoves from the in-the-air drama of flying agile Spitfires to off-the-basehijinks. Bishop brings the war to life like never before, with his own career asa fighter pilot on a parallel track with the progression of the war, leading upto D-Day and the Allied victory in Normandy. Throughout it all, Billy Bishophimself flies in and out of the picture, giving us fascinating insights into theoperations of High Command.
Arthur Bishop has penned another terrific account of war and its effects onsurvivors a surefire hit with aviation and military buffs

Winged Combat: My Story as a Spitfire Pilot in World War II

William Arthur Bishop

The Battle of the St. Lawrence; The Second World War in Canada

Greenfield, Nathan M.

Nathan M. Greenfield’s talent for combining rich (and often overlooked) historical data with first-person accounts made his book The Battle of the St. Lawrence both a critical and popular success. Now he turns his formidable storytelling skill to one of the defining battles of the First World War and a seminal event in the building of our country.
The Second Battle of Ypres pitted the highly trained German soldiers—armed with the first weapon of mass destruction, chlorine gas—against the 1st Canadian Division, which had been in the trenches for just over a week. Yet it was the Canadians who ultimately triumphed, stopping the German advance that followed history’s first poison-gas attacks.
In Baptism of Fire, Greenfield revisits the battlefields and war rooms of history, deconstructing military motives and unearthing scores of unpublished interviews, giving voice to the men who faced what one officer called a “filthy, loathsome pestilence” that turned copper buttons green and seared the Canadians’ lungs. He describes how surprise turned to terror as the infantry saw the first clouds of chlorine gas rolling towards them; how, at first, the German soldiers had joked that their mysterious silver cylinders, spied across the enemy line, were a new kind of German beer keg. Recreating how the Canadians immediately filled the 12-kilometre- long hole in the Allied lines after the initial gas attack, Greenfield takes readers into the unimaginable horror of shell fire that turned men into “pink mist” and obliterated trenches, leaving the survivors to defend a position of death. And he explains how the untried Canadians, with their defective Ross rifles, breathing through urine-soaked handkerchiefs, successfully made one of the most important stands of the war—perhaps even staving off an ultimate German victory.
With alacrity and a great respect for the men in the trenches, Greenfield adds a new dimension to, and explodes a few myths behind, the Battle of Ypres. Within his pages are the words of the Canadian—and German—soldiers themselves, many of whom have never been heard before. Their accounts make this a gripping read for anyone seeking to understand our historical or military past.

Baptism Of Fire

Americas

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