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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Bird's eye view
Florence, Elinor
Ebook
A Toronto Star Bestseller! Rose, a Canadian intelligence officer in Britain in World War II, struggles with conflicting feelings about the war and a superior's attention. Rose Jolliffe is an idealistic young woman living on a farm with her...
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...
Obasan
Kogawa, Joy.
Paper Book
A moving vision of an affront to democratic principles... A tour de force, a deeply felt novel, brilliantly poetic in its sensibility' - New York Times'
Remembrance : a story
MacLeod, Alistair
Paper Book
From one of the most beloved storytellers of our time, Remembrance is the last published story by Alistair MacLeod, and a moving story of three generations of men from a single family whose lives are forever altered by the long shadow of war. Now available in book form for the first time...
Two trails narrow : a novel
McGregor, Stephen
Paper Book
Key Selling Points This novel was inspired by true events and is dedicated to the memory of Sergeant Tommy Prince, Canada's most decorated Indigenous soldier. While a work of fiction, this book recognizes the often unacknowledged role of Indigenous people in World War II.<...

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