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Ted Barris offers a unique retelling of the WW II story through first-hand recollections of the Canadians who experienced it. Barris has assembled new research based on exclusive interviews, transcripts, as well as unpublished letters, diaries, memoirs, and photos.
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HarperCollinsPublishersLtd
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English
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Unforgettable tales of heroism, bravery and escape - the remarkable true stories of Canadian soldiers and civilians lost behind enemy lines in the Second World War. Nathan M. Greenfield, author of the Governor General's Award finalist "The Damned," shares never-before-heard stories of these forgotten Canadians in thrilling and often heartbreaking detail in a book that everyone will remember.
3) No surrender: a father, a son, and an extraordinary act of heroism that continues to live on today
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HarperAudio
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A Baptist pastor documents the true story of his father, a devout Christian who risked his life to protect hundreds of Jewish-American GIs who were brutally targeted by the Nazis after being taken prisoner in World War II.
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St. Martin's Press
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"The Nine follows the true story of the author's great aunt Helene Podliasky, who led a band of nine female resistance fighters as they escaped a German forced labor camp and made a ten-day journey across the front lines of WWII from Germany back to Paris. The nine women were all under thirty when they joined the resistance. They smuggled arms through Europe, harbored parachuting agents, coordinated communications between regional sectors, trekked...
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