Canadian Perspectives of World War II

Historical Fiction by Canadian authors describing World War II from a Canadian perspective.

Updated September 3, 2025
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Greater Victoria Public Library
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The jade peony
Choy, Wayson
Paper Book
Chinatown, Vancouver, in the late 1930s and ï?40s provides the setting for this poignant first novel, told through the vivid and intense reminiscences of the three younger children of an immigrant family. They each experience a very different childhood, depending on age and sex, as they encounter...
The Riveter
Wang, Jack.
Paper Book
In the vein of All the Light We Cannot See, a cross-cultural love story set against the dramatic backdrop of the Allied invasion of Europe during WWII. Vancouver, 1942. Josiah Chang arrives in the bustling city ready to make a new life for himself. The Second World War...

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