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  • My Father's War

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    How an ordinary family survived extraordinary circumstances, while also helping others through a perilous period of modern Dutch history. With arrest and starvation, frequent hazards under the Nazi regime, lives could unexpectedly be changed or...


  • Shadows in the Burmese Jungle

    The Story of Red Maddox Behind Enemy Lines 1941 - 1945
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    Often referred to as the Forgotten War, the Battle for Burma was fought in a geographically challenging and isolated region far from the major population centers of the time. But for the people who took part in it, the battle was a personal...


  • Ruta's Closet

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    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...


  • Adytum

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    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....


  • Axis Rising

    The Beginner's Guide to The Second World War
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    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,...


  • All My Love and Then Some

    The Letters of Cpl. Polly G. Meilman RCAF (WD) to Her Parents, 1942-1944
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    In the middle of World War II, in September 1942, an enthusiastic eighteen-year-old named Polly Meilman boarded a train to Toronto. She was leaving her home in Nova Scotia for her basic training in the Women’s Division of the Royal Canadian Air...


  • Escape to Paradise

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    Theo Dirks was born in a Mennonite village in the Ukraine. During the Second World War, he and his family were exiled to Siberia, but through disastrous circumstances managed to escape and come back home. When the Germans arrived, Theo was...


  • My Father's Letters

    Romance Amidst War
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    Framed by the violence and chaos of a global conflict is my parents’ love story, touchingly told in a series of letters from Max to Rosaleen from the day after they met in 1941 to my mother’s disembarkation in Halifax from the Queen Mary as a war...


  • Hoping to Hear from You Soon

    Canadian War Letters, 1940-1945
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    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...


  • A Good Man

    A Prisoner of War's True Account of Betrayal and Survival During the Second World War
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    This is the story of Lorne Shetler, a distinguished Second World War veteran and former prisoner of war. Driven by a desire to preserve her father's remarkable story for generations to follow, his daughter Jeanie immersed herself in his journals,...