Remembrance Day Reads

Take time to remember on November 11th.

Updated November 15, 2024
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Greater Victoria Public Library
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Tales of World War II : amazing true stories from the war that shook the world
Hearn, Hattie
Paper Book
It's the Second World War as you've never seen it before--discover the hidden stories of incredible human spirit during the world's darkest hour. Everyone knows what Adolf Hitler, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill were doing during World War II, but what...
War is over
Almond, David
Paper Book
Transcending its time and period, this moving and lyrical story, beautifully illustrated, explores the fear and hope of children in time of war. I am just a child. How can I be at war? It's 1918, and war is everywhere. John's father is fighting in the trenches...
Captain Rosalie
Fombelle, Timothée de
Paper Book
Timothée de Fombelle and Isabelle Arsenault capture the heart-wrenching cost of war for one small girl in a delicately drawn, expertly told tale. While her father is at war, five-year-old Rosalie is a captain on her own secret mission. She wears the disguise of a little...
And no birds sang
Mowat, Farley
Paper Book
"In July 1942, Farley Mowat was an eager young infantryman bound for Europe and impatient for combat. This powerful, true account of the action he saw, fighting desperately to push the Nazis out of Italy, evokes the terrible reality of war with an honesty and clarity fiction can only imitate. In...

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