History, Military
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Ruta's Closet
by Keith Morgan and Ruth Kron Sigal
Ruta’s Closet tells the compelling Holocaust story of a Jewish family, imprisoned in the tiny Shavl ghetto in Lithuania. The Kron family survived the horror of the Nazi regime, thanks to the resourcefulness of Meyer and Gita Kron and the bravery...
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Musical Colours
Marches of the UK and Canadian Forces by Ian Pearson and Jack Kopstein
On the cover of the 1970 record THE VANISHING REGIMENTS, Colonel CH Jaeger OBE made an interesting observation: ‘Be it true or not that old soldiers never die but only fade away, it is absolutely certain that the music connected with soldiering...
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Scarlet to Green
A History of Intelligence in the Canadian Army 1903-1963 by Major S.R. Elliot
Scarlet to Green details the ‘boom and bust’ cycles of the Canadian Army’s intelligence organization from its inception in 1903 to 1963, the eve of the Integration of the Canadian Armed Forces. The book analyzes the role of intelligence in...
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Horses, Howitzers, and Hymns
The Story of Lieut. Skey, MC, and His Father in the Great War by Marianne S. Goodfellow
Upon his arrival in France in February of 1917, twenty-one-year-old Lieut. Warren Skey purchased a small Au Jour le Jour to record his day-to-day experiences as a gunner, who packed ammunition, loaded on horses, to the guns at the front. He was...
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Adytum
by Mary Cools
Adytum: A place within the soul which should be filled with awe and reverence for being alive. “His sky was growing dark with his own private shadows. It was like watching children playing on a beach and seeing a storm building on the horizon....
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The Plutonium Files
America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War by Eileen Welsome
The Plutonium Files is the shocking exposé of the US government’s medical experiments on unwitting citizens during the Cold War. Americans recoiled when they learned of the brutal experiments conducted by Nazi doctors. But as the world was...
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The Red Knight Aircraft
Includes Civilian Revivals and Static Display Aircraft by John Charles Corrigan
The Red Knight was the product of thirty years of meticulous research by aviation historian John Charles Corrigan. It is arguably the most comprehensive account ever written about the Royal Canadian Air Force’s legendary solo jet-aerobatics...
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Axis Rising
The Beginner's Guide to The Second World War by Ryan Devries
Axis Rising: The Beginner’s Guide to the Second World War is the book to read for a quick, easy-to-understand, yet comprehensive overview of World War Two. Beginning with the birth of Hitler and following through the entire war and its aftermath,...
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Caught in the Turmoil of History
Intrepid Soviet Spies, a Jewish-Croatian Family, Shattered Ideals, and Terror Unleashed by Communist and Fascist Regimes by Ivana Caccia and Maroje Mihovilović
Branko Vukelić may not be well known outside his home country, but he certainly should be. That’s because Branko was a spy, part of the famous Soviet secret espionage group based in Tokyo and led by Richard Sorge. They were spying on Japan and...
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The English Trip of 1910
Toronto, Sir Henry Pellatt, the Queen's Own Rifles and the Press Gang by Mima Brown Kapches
The year 1910 saw the 50th anniversary of the Queen’s Own Rifles, Canada’s longest-serving reserve regiment. To celebrate this landmark, a series of events, military parades, and spectacular historical pageants featuring hundreds of participants...
