History, Military, World War I
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Ralph Douglas Clark – Atlantic Telegraph Cable Operator
A Family Memoir by Peter Béla Clark
This heart-felt narrative, profusely illustrated with historical images and detailed captions, chronicles highlights in the life of Ralph Douglas Clark whose career as an Atlantic telegraph cable operator began in the tiny Nova Scotia seaport of ...
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Our Quarrel with the Foe
Edmonton's Soldiers 1914 - 1918 by Ian Edwards
After the terrible poison gas attack in the Ypres Salient in April 1915, Canadian medical officer John McCrae made a plea to his nation in his poem, “In Flanders Fields”, to hold the torch from fallen hands and take up Our Quarrel with the Foe. ...
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I'll Take My Chances
Volume 1 by Gary Turner
Evil had to be defeated and he had a responsibility to help. Now it was too late to do anything but spend the lives of millions of young men to defeat this new Dark Age. The mountains were witness to Sidney’s determination to stand tall against the ...
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A Hundred Years of Tears
One Soldier's Story from the Savannah to the Somme by Anna Guess Pick
Follow in the boot steps of Sgt. John Guess, a young soldier from Southern California and recipient of America’s Distinguished Service Cross, as he tells the story of his journey from the farm land of the Savannah Ranch to the farm lands of France ...
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The Bearer's Burden
by Diana Elizabeth Jones
It’s 1915. WW1 has been raging for six months. Twenty-three year old miner Joe Mathieson lives in a small community on the east coast of Fife, Scotland. His life is joyless, his future bleak. Unlike his older brother, Fred, who enlisted in the army ...
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Letters to Vimy
by Orland French
Dear Uncle Oscar… I’m going to put a note on the back of our book to explain to readers what our correspondence inside is all about. It goes like this... A hundred years ago a German shell fell on Pte. Oscar French on Vimy Ridge and ended his ...
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Bullets, Bombs, and Bayonets
by Edward N. Ross
Bullets, Bombs, and Bayonets draws attention to a significant part of Canadian military history, a period in which almost an entire generation of young men never returned from the battlefields of Europe. In 2017 Canada commemorates the 100th year of ...
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When Johnny Doesn't Come Marching Home
A Compelling Human Interest Story About a 20 Year Old Boy's Search for Adventure in World War One by Marian Small
In 2017, the United States of America will be celebrating the Centennial of World War I. 1st Sergeant JOHN RUSSELL SMALL was a Veteran of that War. This is a true account of his experiences before, during and after the War, as written by his ...
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The Silent Sixtieth 100 Years On
The Story of the 60th Canadian Overseas Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force In the Great War by Reginald A. Gervais
The Silent Sixtieth, is the story of the 60th Canadian Overseas Battalion, in World War One. Originally begun simply as research into the author’s ancestry, The Silent Sixtieth evolved into a history of the 60th Canadian Overseas Battalion in World ...
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Training For Armageddon
Niagara Camp in the Great War, 1914-1919 by Richard D. Merritt
Over the past 225 years the oak savannah at the mouth of the Niagara River -- designated as a Military Reserve but regarded by the local citizenry as their common lands-- has witnessed a broad spectrum of military, political and cultural happenings. ...
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