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Sto caricando le informazioni... Rare Courage: Veterans of the Second World War Rememberdi Rod Mickleburgh
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An astonishing collection of compelling and vivid wartime memories. As Canada’s tens of thousands of veterans of the Second World War increasingly fall victim to the ravages of time, their personal stories become more and more vital to our understanding of what happened in those pivotal years. InRare Courage, twenty Canadian veterans candidly describe their experiences in their own words, combined with more than eighty photographs and artifacts from the Dominion Institute and the veterans’ personal collections. Rare Couragetakes readers to the sinking of theBismarckand to the bloody beaches of Normandy. It describes the poignant search of a Jewish nurse for survivors of the Holocaust and chilling tales of shot-down airmen on the run in occupied Europe. Many of the stories shed light on little-known aspects of the war: Did you know that almost all the pioneering radar officers on British warships were Canadians? Or that a Canadian major-league baseball star ended up a prisoner in Stalag Luft 13? This is not dry, academic history, but a book that breathes with vivid details.Rare Couragecelebrates the heroism and remembers the horror of the Second World War. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)940.54History and Geography Europe Europe 1918- Military History Of World War IIClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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Peter Cottingham was a member of the 1st Special Service Force better known as the Devil's Brigade and his view of that organization is decidedly less positive than the books and movie. The Warren twins served in the RCAF in the same Spitfire Squadron often flying as one another's one and two. Stanley Grizzle was refused a room at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto while in full uniform because he was Black. When it happen again Quebec City at the Salvation Army's hostel, his commanding officer made such a stink, the clerk at the hostel was fired and the Sally Ann apologized to Grizzle.Other memories are about the courage of European civilians who risked their lives to save downed airman or what the horrors the foot soldier experience when attacking or is attacked. One radar operator was there the day the Bismarck was sighted and damaged and in his essay we learn that most radar operators on British ships were Canadian. ( )