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Legacies Shared eBook Series

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  • Far From Home

    A Memoir of a Twentieth-Century Soldier

    by Jeffery Williams ...
    Series Book 9 - Legacies Shared
    Jeffery Williams offers a vivid retelling of his childhood in Calgary during the depression, followed by the outbreak of war and his enthusiastic enrolment in the Canadian Army. First sent to England in 1939, eager and untrained, Williams went on to a thirty-three year career, experiencing wars in Europe and Korea, and serving inCanada, Germany, the United States, and England.With an uncanny ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • Vimy

    by Pierre Berton ...
    The bestselling, award-winning author of The American Invasion of Canada "has given great drama and immediacy to that turning point in Canadian history" ( Maclean's).On Easter Monday 1917 with a blizzard blowing in their faces, the four divisions of the Canadian Corps in France seized and held the best-defended German bastion on the Western Front—the muddy scarp of Vimy Ridge. The British had ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unbelievable Canadian War Stories

    Well Beyond the Call of Duty

    by Pat MacAdam ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    Often little-known but extraordinary, the quiet heroes of one of the most destructive wars in history left indelible impressions among those whose lives were touched by their actions. Up against firing squads, torpedoes, rogue waves, P.O.W. camps, and all the living hells of warfare, they persevered, they saved lives, and they valiantly served their country. Distinguished and decorated, these men ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Green Beach

    by James Leasor ...
    In 1942 radar expert Jack Nissenthall volunteered for a suicidal mission to join a combat team who were making a surprise landing at Dieppe in occupied France. His assignment was to penetrate a German radar station on a cliff above “Green Beach”. Because Nissenthall knew the secrets of British and US radar technology, he was awarded a personal bodyguard of sharpshooters. Their orders were to ... Read more

    $5.40 CAD

  • Fighting Through from Dunkirk to Hamburg

    A Green Howard's Wartime Memoir

    by Bill Cheall ...
    A British infantryman shares his harrowing story of life on the frontlines of WWII, from the North African Campaign to the invasion of Germany.In April 1939, when Bill Cheall joined the famous Yorkshire infantry regiment known as the Green Howards, he could not have imagined the drama, trauma, rewards and anguish that awaited him. But he recounts it all here, in this vivid memoir of service and ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Devil's Own Luck

    Pegasus Bridge to the Baltic, 1944–45

    by Denis Edwards ...
    "A superb and well written book, highly recommended as a true account of one man's war from Pegasus Bridge to the Baltic during WWII." —The ArmourerAlthough strictly forbidden to keep diaries, Denis Edwards managed to record his experiences throughout nearly all his time in Europe in 1944–45. He brilliantly conveys what it was like to be facing death, day after day, night after night, with never a ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Women in the Second World War

    by Collette Drifte ...
    Women in the Second World War explores the experiences of women who served in the armed forces, or complimentary services. Using interviews, anecdotes, memoirs and/or accounts from the women (or, where appropriate, their children), the book tells the women's personal accounts of what their lives were like and what particular experiences they had while serving. They were all ordinary British women, ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Victory at Vimy

    Canada Comes of Age, April 9-12, 1917

    by Ted Barris ...
    National BestsellerAt the height of the First World War, on Easter Monday April 9, 1917, in early morning sleet, sixteen battalions of the Canadian Corps rose along a six-kilometre line of trenches in northern France against the occupying Germans. All four Canadian divisions advanced in a line behind a well-rehearsed creeping barrage of artillery fire. By nightfall, the Germans had suffered a ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Voices from D-Day

    Eyewitness Accounts from the Battle for Normandy

    Edited by Jon E. Lewis ...
    Voices From D-Day features classic accounts by soldiers such as Rommel and Bradley, together with frontline reports by some of the world’s finest authors and war correspondents, including Ernest Hemingway and Alan Melville. Published to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Normandy landings, highlights of this unique collection include the break-out from Omaha beach as told by the GI who led it, ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy, Airman, Gangster, Kill or Die

    How the Allies Won on D-Day

    by Giles Milton ...
    A ground-breaking account of the first 24 hours of the D-Day invasion told by a symphony of incredible accounts of unknown and unheralded members of the Allied – and Axis – forces.An epic battle that involved 156,000 men, 7,000 ships and 20,000 armoured vehicles, D-Day was, above all, a tale of individual heroics – of men who were driven to keep fighting until the German defences were smashed and ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • Blitz Diary

    Life Under Fire in the Second World War

    by Mike Brown, Carol Harris ...
    During the 1930s, war with Germany became increasingly likely. The British Government believed that it would start with massed ranks of enemy planes, dropping bombs and poison gas on civilians in major towns and cities, terrifying them into surrendering. When war broke out, preparations to protect the population were piecemeal and inadequate. As anticipated, people were shocked by the first raids ... Read more

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  • From Dunkirk to the Rhineland

    The Rhineland via Normandy and Brussels

    by C.N. Murrell ...
    Charles (Charlie to his comrades) Murrell kept detailed diaries of his service with the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards throughout the Second World War as Guardsman (later Sergeant).This book starts on 10 May 1940 with the Blitzkrieg on Arras and the retreat to Dunkirk. The Dunkirk beaches and his own undignified evacuation are described in some detail and occasional humor.The second part begins on 20 ... Read more

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