In the evening dusk of August 22, 1944, during an intense battle off the Norwegian coast, the HMS Nabob, one of the two Canadian-crewed aircraft carriers in the Second World War was struck by a torpedo on the starboard side. Among the souls on board was Dr. Charles Read Jr., a young flight surgeon who needed to draw upon every bit of his training and skills to fight against seemingly impossible odds to save the lives of his shipmates. These are his memoires. Follow Dr. Read from his first, fresh-faced moments in Halifax as a newly minted Navy Medical Officer to a surprise appointment to be the flight surgeon on the much-lauded Nabob, the aircraft carrier thought of as the sign that Canada’s navy had arrived in the big leagues of world sea power. In vivid detail, Read recounts his training (including a hair-raising ride in a fighter jet), his friendships (from Chizy, the affable wine steward, to the legendary fighter pilot Bobby Bradshaw), to his wonder at the beauty of Europe (even in the midst of wartime destruction) to his memorable encounters with those he met along the way (including two beautiful movie stars). Read presents war as he saw it, the gut-wrenching carnage, the endless monotony, the baffling absurdity, and, shamefully, the inevitable tragedies that happen under incompetent command. These memoires present an exciting and never-before-seen view into a ship that has, until this book, been little more than a footnote in history.

Memoirs of the Flight Surgeon of HMS Nabob

Biographies & Memoirs

Read Jr., Charles Herbert

Historical

Lammi Publishing Inc.

Often touted as the moment that made Canada a nation, the Battle of Vimy Ridge has attained almost legendary status in the canon of our history. This collection of essays explores and analyses the specific battle itself as well as some of the historical meaning surrounding the events.   Karen Hann, in "A Dominion Comes of Age: The Battle of Vimy Ridge," presents a basic look at the battle itself. Hann introduces the main players, discusses troop movements, and explains some of the historical and political significances of the various elements of the battle.  In the second essay, ""How did the Canadian Corps Achieve the Magnificent Victory at Vimy Ridge when Other Allied Armies Failed?" returning Lammi Publishing author Bill Leavey, offers a deeper analysis of the battle plans and movements. Leavey brings his military background to fore as he teaches us why and how Canada achieved such a remarkable victory when so many others had failed.  Our final essay, "Vimy Ridge: Sons and Brothers," written by newcomer Keith Elliot, provides us with a more personal look at this seminal battle and what it means. Elliot weaves the narrative of his own journey to the memorial with the story of a great-great uncle he never knew who fought at the infamous Ridge.  Together, these works should allow newcomers to gain a good picture of that which we celebrate this April as well as offer new insights to experienced scholars looking to further their knowledge of the Battle of Vimy Ridge.  Jeremy Lammi (Editor) Jeremy Lammi received a Masters of Strategic Studies from the University of Calgary. He is the president of Lammi Publishing Inc.  W. A. Leavey (Author) A 42-year veteran of the Canadian Army Infantry, W.A. (Bill) Leavey holds a Master’s degree in English from the Royal Military College, and he has written two book.  Keith Elliott (Author) Keith Elliott is a stonecutter and artist living in Wallace, Nova Scotia.  Karen Hann (Author) Karen Hann is a freelance writer and editor living in Lethbridge, Alberta. She received her Bachelor of Arts (English) degree at the University of Lethbridge and her Master of Arts (English; Creative Writing) degree at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton.

Canadians and War Volume 2: Vimy Ridge

History

Elliott, Keith

Leavey, W. A.

Hann, Karen

Americas

Even today, our visceral reaction to deserters remains one of contempt, though we know the reasons a soldier might flee the battlefield are complex. Andy Owen, a British Army officer who served tours in Northern Ireland, Iraq and Afghanistan, examines deserters in general (40,000 U.S. troops are estimated to have deserted during the Iraq conflicts) and more particularly the case of Alan Juniper, who twice deserted (in North Africa and Italy) during WWII, one of an estimated 100,000 British soldiers to do so. Owen’s message carries a simple truth: Everyone has his or her breaking point. - Toronto Star Andy Owen invites us to reflect on the morally and psychological difficult question of why soldiers desert in war – and how we do, and should, respond to their desertion. He weaves his own experience of battle into the story of Alan Juniper, a British soldier who deserted twice during WWII. The result: a challenging and, at times, profoundly moving book. – Professor Cécile Fabre, All Souls College, University of Oxford All Soldiers Run Away: Alano’s War, the Story of a British Deserter is the tale of Alan Juniper’s wartime experiences in the North African and Italian Campaigns in WW2, as well as a wider look at the taboo subject of desertion both then and today. From his first days with the Tower Hamlets Rifles in London to the scorching, unforgiving sands of North Africa, to that first, terrifying battle with Rommel and his Afrika Korps, we follow Alan Juniper through a series of intense and confusing encounters with the enemy and his eventual first desertion, subsequent incarceration, and grasp at a chance for freedom (in exchange for fighting in the Italian Campaign). Alan’s story presents a broken man in a broken landscape, struggling on in unbearable circumstances, from the brutality of night fighting in the hills of Perugia to another desertion and a period of unexpected peace in a small Umbrian village, where he is taken in by people who had, only months before, been the enemy. All Soldiers Run Away is the search for Alan’s tale in lost battles, missing war diaries, and faded memories. Through his story and contrasting desertions, this text examines why the military and society condemns those who desert, and goes on to explore what duties soldiers have towards one another and their homelands. This story is indeed that of Alano’s war, but it is, just as much, the story of deserters in general, presenting a new perspective on that once-shamed act of desertion and asking the readers to come to new understanding of what it is we ask of our men and women in uniform..

All Soldiers Run Away: Alano's War: The Story of a British Deserter

Owen, Andy

All the Ship's Men: HMCS Athabaskan's Untold Stories" is a collection of personal stories of sailors on-board Canada's Tribal Class Destroyer, HMCS Athabaskan when it was sunk by enemy fire mere days before the Normandy Invasion. This revised edition includes seventeen new tales.

All the Ship's Men: HMCS Athabaskan's Untold Stories

Pringle, Sherry J

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