The inspirational story of Douglas Bader, DSO, DFC.

Reach for the Sky: Story of Douglas Bader, D.S.O., D.F.C.

Paul Brickhill

Children's Books

Collins

In 1941, the United States inaugurated a new military concept in the US Army: the tank destroyer. The term "tank destroyer" evolved into a broad concept containing personnel, equipment and units strike. This illustrated monograph demonstrates the flawed conception of the tank destroyer unit and gives credit to the American soldiers who still were able to successfully work inside its definition.

Seek, Strike and Destroy: U.S. Army Tank Destroyer Doctrine in World War II [Leavenworth Papers No. 12]

History

Christopher R. Gabel

Military

U. S. Government Printing Office/Combat Studies Institute, 1985

Nuclear Submarine (The Inside Story)

Rossiter, Mike

HarperCollins, Publishers

The authors recognize Falaise as a hard-fought and terribly significant victory for the Allies, which runs contrary to most assessments of the Normandy battle. The Whitakers have always generated controversy with their books, and they prove that the German army -- far from escaping through what is known as the Falaise Gap -- were actually routed in Normandy. And the Canadians were there.

Victory at Falaise: The Soldier's Story

Whitaker, W. Denis

Harpercollins

The Trade Mission

Pyper, Andrew

Harper Flamingo

"He has enough of the devil in him to make a good fighter pilot."
That was the recommendation given by Arthur Bishop’s school headmaster in acharacter reference required by the RCAF for all new recruits. Just 18 years oldin 1941, Arthur Bishop, son of World War I flying ace Billy Bishop, was about tofulfill both his father’s proud legacy, and embark on the ride of his life.
Winged Combat takes us from Bishop’s first days as a green recruit,determined not to let his father’s military reputation influence histreatment, through the war years of 1943 and 1944 as a Spitfire pilot overEngland and France.Packed with anecdotes culled from his meticulous dairies, Winged Combatmoves from the in-the-air drama of flying agile Spitfires to off-the-basehijinks. Bishop brings the war to life like never before, with his own career asa fighter pilot on a parallel track with the progression of the war, leading upto D-Day and the Allied victory in Normandy. Throughout it all, Billy Bishophimself flies in and out of the picture, giving us fascinating insights into theoperations of High Command.
Arthur Bishop has penned another terrific account of war and its effects onsurvivors a surefire hit with aviation and military buffs

Winged Combat: My Story as a Spitfire Pilot in World War II

William Arthur Bishop

The Battle of the St. Lawrence; The Second World War in Canada

Greenfield, Nathan M.

Nathan M. Greenfield’s talent for combining rich (and often overlooked) historical data with first-person accounts made his book The Battle of the St. Lawrence both a critical and popular success. Now he turns his formidable storytelling skill to one of the defining battles of the First World War and a seminal event in the building of our country.
The Second Battle of Ypres pitted the highly trained German soldiers—armed with the first weapon of mass destruction, chlorine gas—against the 1st Canadian Division, which had been in the trenches for just over a week. Yet it was the Canadians who ultimately triumphed, stopping the German advance that followed history’s first poison-gas attacks.
In Baptism of Fire, Greenfield revisits the battlefields and war rooms of history, deconstructing military motives and unearthing scores of unpublished interviews, giving voice to the men who faced what one officer called a “filthy, loathsome pestilence” that turned copper buttons green and seared the Canadians’ lungs. He describes how surprise turned to terror as the infantry saw the first clouds of chlorine gas rolling towards them; how, at first, the German soldiers had joked that their mysterious silver cylinders, spied across the enemy line, were a new kind of German beer keg. Recreating how the Canadians immediately filled the 12-kilometre- long hole in the Allied lines after the initial gas attack, Greenfield takes readers into the unimaginable horror of shell fire that turned men into “pink mist” and obliterated trenches, leaving the survivors to defend a position of death. And he explains how the untried Canadians, with their defective Ross rifles, breathing through urine-soaked handkerchiefs, successfully made one of the most important stands of the war—perhaps even staving off an ultimate German victory.
With alacrity and a great respect for the men in the trenches, Greenfield adds a new dimension to, and explodes a few myths behind, the Battle of Ypres. Within his pages are the words of the Canadian—and German—soldiers themselves, many of whom have never been heard before. Their accounts make this a gripping read for anyone seeking to understand our historical or military past.

Baptism of Fire :The Second Battle of Ypres and the Forging of Canada, April 1915

Americas

When Nazi Germany’s Buchenwald concentration camp was liberated in 1945, its records revealed that two young Canadians, Ken Macalister and Frank Pickersgill, were among its countless victims. At 30 and 31 years of age, they had been agents of Britain’s Special Operations Executive (SOE ), an undercover unit established by Winston Churchill that used sabotage and subversion to bring down the Nazi regime from within. Jonathan F. Vance brings us the dramatic, untold story of two men who were the most unlikely of soldiers. Pickersgill, an up-andcoming journalist, and Macalister, one of the finest law students ever to attend the University of Toronto, were both living in France when the Nazis seized power. Pickersgill, arrested as an enemy alien, spent two years in prison before escaping to England. The men’s intelligence, resourcefulness and familiarity with French customs and language caught the attention of the SOE. Trained in special-operations techniques, from radio control to killing, they were paired together and parachuted into France―just as the underground network they were to join was cracked open by the Germans. Unlikely Soldiers is an extraordinary tale of unsung heroes, intrigue and tragic error. With access to the recently opened SOE archives, Vance draws new material into a fascinating narrative that will appeal to anyone interested in military history, the evolution of espionage, or simply the remarkable story of two heroic Canadians. 
Above the village of Châtillon-sur-Cher on the night of June 15/16, 1943, Frank and Ken sat in the fuselage of the Halifax and watched as the dispatcher hooked their parachutes to the static line. Seconds later, the red light blinked on, the dispatcher pulled the cover off the chute in the floor, and the two Canadians sat down. . . . Then the green light flashed . . . and Ken and Frank were gone. ―From Unlikely Soldiers

Unlikely Soldiers: how Two Canadians Fought The Secret War Against

Biographies & Memoirs

Vance, Jonathan

Historical

What if a major earthquake devastated the west coast of North America, killing thousands of people, flattening entire cities and fracturing the economy? How would the Canadian government address the crisis when many of our already weakened forces are deployed in Kandahar or in supporting roles? Or suppose terrorists attacked the Toronto subway system during a convention of Canadian and American emergency-room physicians? Would our military have the manpower, equipment and technical resources to protect our citizens and visitors?
Granatstein says never mind hypothetical—and completely probable—threats; our military is incapable of dealing with current and ongoing crises that require well-trained, well-equipped and properly deployed troops, supported by a confident military policy. He argues that Canadians’ once-vaunted role of peacekeeping is no longer relevant in a post-9/11 world, since recent missions, from Somalia to Kosovo to Afghanistan, are akin to war. Granatstein also takes Canadian attitudes to task, criticizing our increasing reluctance to support a military presence in countries such as Afghanistan.
Whose War Is It? asks the questions Canadians need answered right now:
• How can we negotiate with US policymakers when anti-American sentiment is affecting our military and foreign policies?
• Do multiculturalism and our immigration policy make us vulnerable to terrorist attacks?
• How can we protect our northern sovereignty most effectively?
• What should we do about a “pacifist” Quebec?
• Just what are Canada’s national interests, and how can we advance them?
In the same tradition as his #1 bestseller Who Killed the Canadian Military?, Whose War Is It? is a hard-hitting, timely clarion call to arms.

Whose War Is It?: How Canada Can Survive the Post-9/11 World

Granatstein, J.L.

Phyllis Bruce Books

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