This action-packed, first-hand account chronicles the mission of Canada's most famous naval warship from her commissioning in 1943 to her return to Halifax for a refit in late 1944. The ship began her career on convoy duty from Britain to Murmansk, and the book includes a vivid description of the battle between the HMS Duke of York and the German Scharnhorst that led to the Scharnhorst's destruction. Haida went on to patrol the French coast in the months leading up to D-Day, and then with her sister ships guarded the Western Approaches on D-Day itself, sinking two German destroyers and crippling two more. Commander William Sclater witnessed these events first-hand, and his description-together with paintings by Grant Macdonald-provides a vivid recounting of the heroic days of the Second World War.

Haida: A Story of the Hard Fighting Tribal Class Destroyers of the Royal Canadian Navy on the Murmansk Convoy, the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay (Wynford Project)

History

Barris, Ted

Sclater, William

Macdonald, Grant

Americas

Oxford University Press

This volume of wartime remembrance carries the reader from the early days the Second World War -- when Canadians in combat experienced more trials than triumphs ... when those on the homefront endured rationing, yearning and tremendous social upheaval ... where, beyond the wire of POW camps, prisoners (Allied and German) masterminded and executed escapes ... and where so-called "aliens" inside Canadian internment camps fought to prove their loyalty.

Days of Victory : Canadians Remember 1939-1945

Barris, Alex

Macmillan

Playing Overtime a Celebration of Oldtim

Macmillan Canada Div Of Canada

Deadlock In Korea. Canadians At War, 1950-1953

Military

Macmillan, Canada

This best-selling account of the Korean War is now available in Paperback. Deadlock in Korea profiles the personal accounts of ordinary soldiers and transports the reader into the water-logged trenches and insufferable POW camps. Includes 16 pages of black and white photographs and illustrations, as well as seven maps.

Deadlock in Korea: Canadians at War, 1950-1953

CDG Books Canada, Inc. / Macmillan Canada

The plan that won the allied war, Behind the Glory, training heroes in Canadian skies.

Behind the Glory

MacMillan & Co., Ltd.

Macmillan of Canada

On June 6, 1944, nearly 15,000 Canadians - at sea, in the air, and on the ground - joined the long-anticipated D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe on the Normandy beaches. The piece of ground on which the Canadians fought so hard against heavily armed and embedded German troops was codenamed Juno. On that day, the Candian infantry fought their way farther inland than any other Allied troops. For Canada, and all Canadians, this was a coming of age, an extraordinary moment of courage and sacrifice. On the eve of the 60th anniversary of D-Day, Barris takes us back to those momentous few hours that forever changed the course of our history in the voices of those who were there. In what might be described as Canada's longest day, we follow the course of action hour by hour, minute by minute, as we meet and follow the soldiers who leapt off landing craft into the shallow waters off Normandy, who were strafed by machinegun fire before they could even reach the shore. We meet the airmen wh

Juno: Canadians at D-Day, June 6, 1944

Thomas Allen Pub

On May 4, 1945, Canadian artillery captain David Francis found himself near the village of Otterloo, Holland. Shell fire on both sides had diminished noticeably. Both sides tried to avoid last minute read morecasualties. That night, the eve of Dutch liberation, the quartermaster arranged a party for the troops. The local citizenry were also invited, Francis recalled. At the height of the party news came over the radio of the surrender of the German forces in Holland ... The loud resulting cheers were suddenly hushed as all the Dutch people present stood and, with tears streaming down their cheeks, sang their national anthem, and sang it again, and yet again as these normally undemonstrative Dutch people gave vent to their pent-up emotions and the realization sank in that they were free at last of the Nazi yoke. When the German capitulation in Europe came on May 8 - VE Day - celebrations swept the continent. Festivities also spilled into the streets of Halifax, Ottawa, Sudbury, Regina and Vancouver back home. Both the liberators and the liberated erupted in fits of cheers and singing, tears and hugging, dancing, praying, flag-waving, bonfires, parades, and every other demonstration of delight imaginable. It was, to be sure, a sweet day and a bitter one for millions of people whose lives had been changed forever by nearly six years of global war. This day, and the long days of war that led to it, come to life in Days of Victory: 60th Anniversary Edition. This volume of wartime remembrance carries the reader from the early days the Second World War -- when Canadians in combat experienced more trials than triumphs when those on the homefront endured rationing, yearning and tremendous social upheaval where, beyond the wire of POW camps, prisoners (Allied and German) masterminded and executed escapes and where so-called aliens inside Canadian internment camps fought to prove their loyalty. Ultimately, the book offers the voices of the Canadians' ultimate march to victory that began on D-Day in 1944 and culminated in VE and VJ Day, more than a year later. Contained here are the stories of average volunteers, some of whom became well known after the war - including war correspondents Ross Munro, Matthew Halton and J.D. MacFarlane; broadcasters Marcel Ouimet, Art Cole and Clyde Gilmour; seamen Dave Broadfoot, Murray Westgate and Scott Young; air crew Buzz Beurling, Marion Orr and Phil Marchaldon; and army troops James Doohan and Barney Danson as well as homegrown entertainers such as Fred Davis, Alan and Blanche Lund, Murray Ginsberg, Victor Feldbrill, Robert Goodier and comedians Wayne and Shuster. From interviews, research and images originally gathered by father and son writing team - Alex and Ted Barris - best-selling author Ted Barris has broadened the initial manuscript to include stories of Canadian heroism in the Pacific war, accounts of Canadian war correspondents battling to beat the censors, more first-hand impressions of the Canadians who liberated Europe and from the civilians they liberated in Italy, France, Belgium, Denmark and finally Holland. On the eve of the 60th anniversary of European liberation this book gives voice to perhaps Canada's greatest generation, those who gave the world a second chance. The Days of Victory is enhanced by 32 pages of personal/archival photographs and maps.

Days of Victory: Canadians Remember, 1939-1945

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