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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Battle of Britain : Canadian Airmen in Their Finest Hour
Barris, Ted.
Paper Book
The gripping and heroic story of fighter pilots defending the skies over Britain from unprecedented Nazi attack For 113 terrifying days in 1940, Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe, threw everything it had at Great Britain in hopes of early victory in World War II. The task of...
And no birds sang /
Mowat, Farley, 1921-2014
Paper Book
Too young to die : Canada's boy soldiers, sailors and airmen in the Second World War
Boileau, John
Paper Book
John Boileau and Dan Black tell the stories of some of the 30,000 underage youths -- some as young as fourteen -- who joined the Canadian Armed Forces in the Second World War. This is the companion volume to the authors' popular 2013 book Old Enough to Fight about boy soldiers in the First...
A most ungentlemanly way of war : the SOE and the Canadian connection
Horn, Bernd
Paper Book
An examination of the SOE, its accomplishments, and the Canadian connection to the organization. During the Second World War, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill created the Special Operations Executive (SOE) to conduct acts of sabotage and subversion, and...

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