Granatstein, J. L., 1939-
2004
Helm, Sarah, author
2015
Gipi, 1963- author
2020
Dual graphic narratives by the acclaimed Italian cartoonist demonstrate how the choices our ancestors made dramatically affect generations to come. Silvano Landi is a successful writer who, at the age of 50, sees his family leave him and his life fall apart. Landi's great-grandfather, Mauro, is an anxious soldier being fed to the maw of carnage in the First World War. Alternating between past and present, a psych ward and the bloody trenches, and told through complex clues; a lone gas station, an apathetic baroness, found love letters, and shifting from scratchy black-and-white to lush watercolors (sometimes on the same page), One Story documents the origins of pain that serve as the roots of a twisted family tree and allows the reader to trace the branches.
Flavelle, Ryan, 1984-
2011
A gritty boots-on-the-ground memoir of a soldier's experience in the Canadian Forces in the twenty-first century.
Cook, Tim
2010
These men and women could be from anywhere, from anytime, related to anyone. But they are far from ordinary; they are Canadian veterans of the Second World War. And now, their stories are being told. "We Were Freedom: Canadian Stories of the Second World War" is a remarkable collection of oral histories that pays tribute to the men and woman who served in Canada's greatest military effort.
Smith, Sherri L.
2018
"During World War II, black Americans were fighting for their country and for freedom in Europe, yet they had to endure a totally segregated military in the United States, where they weren't considered smart enough to become military pilots. After acquiring government funding for aviation training, civil rights activists were able to kickstart the first African American military flight program in the US at Tuskegee University in Alabama. While this book details thrilling flight missions and the grueling training sessions the Tuskegee Airmen underwent, it also shines a light on the lives of these brave men who helped pave the way for the integration of the US armed forces." -- Amazon.com.
