World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Canadian
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Canadian
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World War, 1939-1945
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- Dear Mom and Pop:, the overseas letters of Private Penny, edited by Brett Clifton
- Convoys of World War II, dangerous missons on the North Atlantic, by Dorothy Pedersen
- The lucky pigeon, the true adventures of a young Canadian airman during World War II
- Dark side of the sun, George Palmer and Canadian POWs in Hong Kong and the Omine Camp, Michael Palmer
- Corvettes Canada, convoy veterans of WWII tell their true stories, Mac Johnston
- One man's war, Sub Lieutenant R.E. Bartlett, RN Fleet Air Arm pilot, by Stuart E. Soward
- Detour, the story of Oflag IVC, edited by J.E.R. Wood ; drawings by J.F. Watton
- Gauntlet to Overlord, the story of the Canadian Army. --
- Malta spitfire, the story of a fighter pilot, by George F. Beurling and Leslie Roberts ; with a foreword by W.A. Bishop ; illustrated by Clayton Knight. --
- The great escape, a Canadian story, Ted Barris
- A Terrible beauty, the art of Canada at war, [edited by] Heather Robertson
- They never rationed courage, letters home from the war, 1940-1945
- Prairie boys afloat, by George Zarn. --
- Winged combat, my story as a Spitfire pilot in World War II, Arthur Bishop
- Women overseas, memoirs of the Canadian Red Cross Corps (Overseas Detachment), edited by Frances Martin Day, Phyllis Spence & Barbara Ladouceur
- Spitfire, the Canadians, Robert Bracken ; foreword by J.E. "Johnnie" Johnson ; artwork by Ron Lowry
- Missing in action, an RCAF navigator's story, John D. Harvie
- Boys, bombs, and brussels sprouts, a knees-up, wheels-up chronicle of WW II, by J. Douglas Harvey
- Life and times of #422 Squadron, the Royal Canadian Air Force, wartime (1942-1945), [edited by Bernard "Bud" Crookes]
- The siren years, a Canadian diplomat abroad 1937-1945, Charles Ritchie. --
- A Canuck in England, journal of a Canadian soldier, by Howard Clegg. --
- 50 personal WW II stories, edited by Joan Donaldson-Yarmey. --
- And no birds sang, Farley Mowat
- The great escape, a Canadian story, Ted Barris
- Battle diary, from D-Day and Normandy to the Zuider Zee and VE, Charles Cromwell Martin with Roy Whitsed. --
- Because we are Canadians, a battlefield memoir, Charles D. Kipp ; edited by Lynda Sykes ; foreword by Pierre Berton
- Rare courage, veterans of the Second World War remember, Rod Mickleburgh with Rudyard Griffiths ; foreword by Jack Granatstein
- One soldier's story 1939-1945, from the fall of Hong Kong to the defeat of Japan, George S. MacDonell
- The diary of a Canadian fighter pilot, W.S. Large ; with an introduction by Kenneth B. Conn
- And no birds sang, Farley Mowat. --
- Girl in a Sloppy Joe sweater, life on the Canadian home front during World War Two, by Mary Peate. --
- Spitfire II, the Canadians, [compiled by ] Robert Bracken ; foreword by James F. "Stocky" Edwards ; artwork by Ron Lowry
- Letters to Edgewood Farm, from a Canadian girl in World War II, by Catherine K. Drinkwater
- An Alberta hillbilly goes to war, by R. Ernie Pearce
- Destruction at dawn, the air-raid coded "Bodenplatte" : Luftwaffe vs. the Allies, New Year's Day, 1945
- Voices of a war remembered, an oral history of Canadians in World War Two, Bill McNeil. --
- Memories on the march, personal stories of the Jewish military veterans of Southern Alberta
- Two wings and a prayer, [compiled by] Bernie Wyatt. --
- Aces, warriors & wingmen, firsthand accounts of Canada's fighter pilots in the Second World War, Wayne Ralph
- From hell to breakfast, Douglas Alcorn with Raymond Souster. --
- Canadian artists and airmen 1940-45, a wartime memoir, Jerrold Morris. --
- Short stories : W.W. II, [edited] by Earl Gingrich. --
- We went where they sent us--and did as we were told (most of the time), edited by Gordon Bell
- Women of the war years, stories of determination and indomitable courage, [edited by Orpha E. (Peggy) Galloway]
- Aces, warriors & wingmen, firsthand accounts of Canada's fighter pilots in the Second World War, Wayne Ralph
- A world in flames, 1944-1945, a portrait of war: part two, Richard S. Malone. --
- Princess Patricia's Regiment, 1938-1941, by D.F. Parrott. --
- The Prairie boys, southern Albertans wartime experiences, by Garry Allison
- Through the Hitler line, memoirs of an infantry chaplain, Laurence F. Wilmot
- How I won the war for the allies, one sassy Canadian soldier's story, Doris Gregory
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