epub |eng | 2015-09-10 | Author:Ramesh Thakur & Jack Cunningham

In the decision on Iraq in 2003, St. Laurent’s basic principle continued to be observed. Chrétien’s closest aide, Eddie Goldenberg, recounts receiving a phone call from the prime minister right ...

epub |eng | | Author:Ian McKay

8 VIMY: THE EMERGING MYTH Yeah, yeah. Vimy-fucking-Ridge. I was there. “Birth of a Nation” they called it on TV, but I didn’t see nobody being born, just a lot ...

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 | 2016-08-15 | Author:Tim Cook

CHAPTER 23 CREATING THE CORPS September 1915–March 1916 “The war keeps up its everlasting grind and everyone plods unrelentingly on,” wrote discouraged front-line officer Lieutenant F.G. Newton to friends at ...

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 |eng | 2015-12-07 | Author:The Breaking of Japan's Secret Ciphers

14 CENTRAL BUREAU’S BIG BREAK Despite Fabian’s efforts to have Eric Nave sent ‘home’ to Britain as part of the terms of the Anglo-US Agreement, the Australian code-breaker had been ...

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 | 2011-05-26 | Author:Michael Smith [Michael Smith]

By the end of 1941, the increase in the numbers of people had brought a dramatic improvement in the social life. Phoebe Senyard spent her first Christmas of the war ...

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 ...

epub |eng | 2011-12-15 | Author:Hutchinson, Robert [Hutchinson, Robert]

Soon after Drake’s return from ‘singeing the King of Spain’s beard’, as his exploits were now popularly labelled, Walsingham sat down and drew up plans to gather more timely and ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-30 | Author:Christopher Andrew

For several years the New York residency deluded itself into believing that it was able to detect every instance of street surveillance of KGB personnel by the FBI.61 In 1973, ...