Biography & Autobiography, Military
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Hoping to Hear from You Soon
Canadian War Letters, 1940-1945 by Sheila M. Cornett
Born in 1948, Sheila Cornett grew up in a time when almost everyone’s father had served in the Second World War. Like many veterans of that conflict, her own father did not talk about his wartime experiences. Six decades later and after her...
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Losing My Country, Keeping My Soul
by Allan Glass
It was 1967, and life in America was the best. I lived and surfed in Miami, Florida, where the waves were as big as the bikinis were small, and every day was another party. The war in Vietnam was an abstract thing. We all knew it would be over...
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The Horses of Sierra Leone
First Tour of Duty A Memoir by Leeland Shelly Nash
In this gripping and painful memoir, Leeland Shelly Nash recounts her first tour of duty as a UN military observer in Sierra Leone while the country transitions from a brutal civil war to the election of a new government. As if acclimating to the...
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Pigeons to Peshawar
by Kenneth F. Schanke
An amazing story—even more so because it’s all true. City-born and country-raised, Ken developed a need to fly and found a way to do it. While recalling his career as a USAF navigator, he relates to the history of the ‘60s, ‘70s and ’80s—linking...
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Unfortunate Sons
The Beginning of Marine Corps Tanks In The Vietnam War and how I survived Vietnam as a marine tanker by Joe Tyson Sr.
Unfortunate Sons is a compelling story It will draw you into Joe Tyson's world as a young Marine Tanker, full of fun and enthusiasm. You will share the daily routines of patrols and combat situations as if you were right there with him. You will...
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A Conversation With a Friend
Concerning Justice, Peace and Joy by Joseph P. La Mar
Read of the journey of an infant as he matures through his birth, foster family living, normal schooling and entrance into the Air Force at eighteen. Follow through in his military activities during 20 years of wartime service involved in...
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Kirkland Lake Remembers
by William A. Glover
“Kirkland Lake Remembers” is a long overdue book, documenting the lives of 202 hometown war heroes. The core 157 soldiers, sailors and airmen are listed on the Kirkland Lake cenotaph where no man is left behind. Meet each of these war heroes;...
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Tim's Story
A Canadian Airman in World War II by Brian Buckley
Courage. Heroism. Endurance. These qualities are emblematic of the stories of thousands of Canadians who fought during World War II. Canadians like Tim Carlon, a young Montrealer who went off to war, doing his part in a global struggle whose...
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This is War and I Ain’t Kiddin’
A Collection of World War II Letters from Dad by Barbara Gales Macaulay
Deep in the bottom of her late mother’s cedar chest, Barbara Gales Macaulay discovered a lifeline to the past: more than 300 letters written by her late father, Richard “Dick” Gales to his wife “Hay” (Hazel) when he was a soldier during World War...
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Leadership, Loyalty, and Liability
A Pilot's Reflections on Canada's Military by William Cook
Robert ‘Mac’ MacIver had always been interested in aviation, and fate takes its course when he looks up to see a military jet flying overhead just after finishing his last exam at university in the mid-1970s. He soon finds himself at a Canadian...
