Remembrance Day Local Reads

Updated November 5, 2025
Newfoundland & Labrador Public Libraries
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With a Unity of Purpose : How the First World War Changed Newfoundland
Westcott, Michael R.
Ebook
Battlefront Newfoundland : Britain's oldest colony at war, 1939-1945 /
Fitzgerald, Jack, 1945-
Paper Book
Newfoundlanders initially viewed World War II as a foreign conflict and believed that the violence in Europe could not spread to these shores. That complacency was shaken on March 3, 1942, when U-587 fired torpedoes at St. John's during the first German attack on North American soil. In the...
Emancipation Day : a novel
Grady, Wayne
Paper Book
How far would a son go to belong? And how far would a father go to protect him? With his curly black hair and his wicked grin, everyone swoons and thinks of Frank Sinatra when Navy musician Jackson Lewis takes the stage. It's World War II, and while stationed in St. John's, Newfoundland...
Old enough to fight : Canada's boy soldiers in the First World War /
Black, Dan, 1957-
Paper Book
Between 15,000 and 20,000 underage youths, some as young as ten, signed up to fight in Canada's armed forces in the First World War. They served in the trenches alongside their elders, and fought in all the major battles: Ypres, the Somme, Passchendaele, Vimy Ridge, and the rest. Many were injured...
A sisterhood of suffering and service : women and girls of Canada and Newfoundla
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Paper Book
As the body of First World War literature continues to grow, women's experiences of this period remain largely obscure, particularly those of Canadian and Newfoundland women. A Sisterhood of Suffering and Service explores this obscurity and begins to redress it. This innovative collection...

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