Over one million British Empire soldiers were killed during the First World War. More than a century later, more than half a million still have no known grave. The scale of the fighting, the destructive power of high explosive, and the combination of relentless military engagemen...
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Draws on the testimony of surviving veterans to relate the experiences of American and British prisoners of war who were forced to march hundreds of miles along the Death March in the wake of the D-Day landings.
K-Gr 4 Does anyone ever think about how dogs feel about fetching all those balls humans throw? Nichol does in her poem, 'Lazy Dog': 'My grievance is so very small/I'm tempted to forget it./But when it's you who threw the ball/Why must I go and get it?' This appealing collection o...
The future Connor was raised to believe in is altered in part by the appearance of Marcus Wright, a stranger whose last memory is of being on death row. Connor must decide whether Marcus has been sent from the future, or rescued from the past. As Skynet prepares its final onslaug...
From the bestselling author of 'Tail-End Charlie' and 'Tornado Down' comes this powerful and deeply moving account of Bomber Command's 1944 Nuremberg Raid - the RAF's bloodiest night of the Second World War.
"In late spring 1940, Nazi Germany's domination of Europe looked unstoppable. With the British Isles in easy reach since the fall of France, Adolf Hitler was convinced that Great Britian would be defeated in the skies over the southern coast, confident his Messerchmitts and Heink...
"Sir Arthur Harris, the controversial chief of Royal Air Force Bomber Command, described the Lancaster as his 'shining sword' and the 'greatest single factor in winning the war'. RAF bomber squadrons carried out offensive operations from the first day of the Second World War unti...
Ninety-year-old Hagar Shipley reflects on a life of rigid pride. In a series of sharply etched vignettes, the tragedy of all Hagar has lost is revealed. The motherless daughter of the wealthiest man in the prairie town of Manawaka, she is schooled in contempt from early childho...
"Date night": In New York City, a case of mistaken identity turns a bored married couple's attempt at a glamorous and romantic evening into something more thrilling and dangerous. "Mr. & Mrs. Smith": Newly relocated to the suburbs, married assassins John and Jane Smith have re-es...
When pilot Jack Griffiths leaves the RAF for a private military company, he quickly finds himself given an assignment at Sierra Leone.
"Forty-one individuals, from seventeen different tribes, representing eleven nations, tell their stories in Always a People. As descendants of people who shaped the history of the North American continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes, the narrators herein continue t...