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8 produkter
Objects of Concern
Canadian Prisoners of War Through the Twentieth Century
Inbunden, 1994
1053 kr
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Hockey magnate Conn Smythe, Trudeau cabinet minister Gilles Lamontagne, and the composer and former conductor of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Sir Ernest MacMillan, share something other than their fame: they all have the dubious distinction of having been captured by the enemy during Canada's …
Bamboo Cage
The P.O.W. Diary of Flight Lieutenant Robert Wyse, 1942-1943
Häftad, 2009
189 kr
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In 1942, RAF flight controller Robert Wyse became a Japanese prisoner of war on the island of Java in Indonesia. Starved, sick, beaten, and worked to near-death, he wasted away until he weighed only seventy pounds, his life hanging in tenuous balance. There were strict orders against POWs keeping …
Great War
From Memory to History
Av Kellen Kurschinski, Steve Marti m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
558 kr
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The Great War: From Memory to History offers a new look at the multiple ways the Great War has been remembered and commemorated through the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. Drawing on contributions from history, cultural studies, film, and literary studies this collection offers fresh …
True Story of the Great Escape
Stalag Luft III, March 1944
Av Simon Pearson, Jonathan F. Vance
E-bok, 2019
147 kr
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The real history behind the classic war movie and the men who plotted the daring escape from a Nazi POW camp. Between dusk and dawn on the night of March 24th–25th 1944, a small army of Allied soldiers crawled through tunnels in Germany in a covert operation the likes of which the Third Reich had …
True Story of the Great Escape
Stalag Luft III, March 1944
Av Simon Pearson, Jonathan F. Vance
E-bok, 2019
147 kr
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The real history behind the classic war movie and the men who plotted the daring escape from a Nazi POW camp. Between dusk and dawn on the night of March 24th–25th 1944, a small army of Allied soldiers crawled through tunnels in Germany in a covert operation the likes of which the Third Reich had …
Objects of Concern
Canadian Prisoners of War Through the Twentieth Century
Häftad, 1994
384 kr
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Hockey magnate Conn Smythe, Trudeau cabinet minister Gilles Lamontagne, and the composer and former conductor of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Sir Ernest MacMillan, share something other than their fame: they all have the dubious distinction of having been captured by the enemy during Canada's …
Death So Noble
Memory, Meaning, and the First World War
Häftad, 1999
395 kr
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This book examines Canada's collective memory of the First World War through the 1920s and 1930s beginning with the Armistice in 1918. This book deals with cultural history more than military history and looks at art, music and literature during World War I.Comparable to Modris Eskteins' Rites of …
Township at War
Inbunden, 2018
467 kr
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A Township at War takes the reader from rural Canadian field and farm to the slopes of Vimy Ridge and the mud of Passchendaele, and shows how a tightly knit Ontario community was consumed and transformed by the trauma of war. In 1914, the southern Ontario township of East Flamborough was like a …
