pdf | | 2022-04-12 | Author:Barrett, Matthew;Engen, Robert C.;

epub |eng | 2014-11-03 | Author:Marc Milner [Milner, Marc]

Canadian POWs march past the newsreel cameraman to an uncertain fate, 7 June 1944. The footage was taken near the Abbey d’Ardennes, whose walls are just visible on the right. ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2017-05-30 | Author:Peter Jacobs [Jacobs, Peter]

With its aircraft gone, Snaith closed to flying, although it was briefly home to an aircrew holding unit. During Snaith’s operational existence more than 200 aircraft had been lost from ...

pdf |en | | Author: Jacques Pauwels

epub |eng | 2017-02-24 | Author:Trevor Cole

18 INDAGINE Investigation ONCE A ROW OF DOMINOES BEGINS TO FALL, IT BECOMES unstoppable. It wasn’t obvious yet, but with the launch of the Commons committee investigation into smuggling Canada ...

epub |eng | 2016-08-15 | Author:Tim Cook

CHAPTER 24 “EDUCATED LARGELY BY OUR OWN MISTAKES” November 1917–March 1918 “The year 1917 has been a glorious year for the Canadian Corps,” wrote Sir Arthur Currie to William Hearst, ...

epub |eng | 2012-02-21 | Author:Bourrie, Mark [Bourrie, Mark]

CHAPTER 8 Censoring News from the Front Lines ON JANUARY 14, 1944, Globe and Mail war correspondent Ralph Allen sat down at his typewriter and began a column that, back ...

epub |eng | 2001-08-13 | Author:Pierre Berton [Berton, Pierre]

5 CHICAGO Horror on Lake Michigan The wretchedness of that night who can tell! the despondency that filled the hearts of all, not so much in regard to the present ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-08-04 | Author:Gwynne Dyer [Dyer, Gwynne]

Right down through 1941, the war went splendidly well for Mackenzie King. The political situation at home had stabilized, and very few Canadians were getting hurt in the war. In ...

epub |eng | 2012-06-10 | Author:Brian Douglas Tennyson

2. By way of comparison, Australia, with a population of 4 million—about half that of Canada—raised 421,809 men, representing 38.7% of its male population between the ages of eighteen and ...

epub |eng | 2014-02-10 | Author:Roger Litwiller

Your airgraph letter arrived on board today. I note that the electric washing machine has been forwarded to Halifax. The procuring of this machine was indeed a praiseworthy achievement on ...

epub |eng | 2013-09-16 | Author:Barris, Ted [Barris, Ted]

* * * * Paul Brickhill was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia; during the war, he was shipped to Canada to train in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. ...

mobi |eng | 2012-08-07 | Author:H. W. McBride

Well, there were we, safe enough for the moment, but the sergeant was doing some heavy thinking. It was something like this; “If we just stay here and wait, it ...

epub |eng | 2014-12-26 | Author:Will R. Bird

CHAPTER VII In a German Trench We found a little estaminet between our village and Bourecq, a small house managed by a gaunt, bony-faced woman with eye sockets like a ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-11-03 | Author:Michael Winter [Winter, Michael]

BEES IN CELLOPHANE I bicycled back to Beaumont-Hamel. The trees appeared on the horizon and I coasted down the quiet paved road towards them. I turned in at the now ...