Patrick Skene Catling
Born in London, Patrick Skene Catling was educated there and at Oberlin College in the United States. As a Royal Canadian Air Force navigator and as a journalist, he has traveled extensively. His present home is in the Republic of Ireland. The ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Michael Martchenko
Royal Canadian Air Force Pilot John Magee was only nineteen years old when he wrote the poem "High Flight" in 1941. Born in Shanghai and educated at Rugby School in England, Magee showed early promise as a poet. Impatient to take part in the [... more]
Random House |
Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret ...
 Scariest book you'll ever read!: If "The Hot Zone" scared the pants off of you, then this book will leave you naked. As an eastern Long Islander, this book really opened my eyes and made me think. With every chapter I read, I was on the phone [... more]
CDN$38.95
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Where the Hell Are the Guns?: A Soldier's View of the ...
The Longest, Sometimes Darkest Years: Although the last of Blackburn's three volumes about World War Two to be published (the others being The Guns of Normandy and The Guns of Victory), this one focuses on the "anxious years" beginning in 1939 [... more]
CDN$24.99
Amazon CA |
High Flight: A Story of World War II
Very few of us live a more perfect life: This delightful children's book, well worth reading by any adult whose imagination has risen above a stepladder up to some leaf-clogged eaves, is about the Royal Canadian Air Force pilot and the greatest poem ever [... more]
CDN$18.99
Amazon CA |
And No Birds Sang
Amazon.ca: War is hell, the adage goes. "So awful," Farley Mowat adds in this memoir of World War II frontline service, "that through three decades I kept the deeper agonies of it wrapped in the cotton-wool of protective forgetfulness, and [... more]
CDN$22.95
Amazon CA |
In For a Penny, In For a Pound: The Adventures and ...
Quick and interesting read: Howard Hewer gives an unpretentious and unnostalgic look at what it was like for a young Canadian serving in the Second World War. When watching movies it is easy to be blinded to what it was really like - switching from [... more]
CDN$22.00
Amazon CA |
The Way the Crow Flies
Amazon.ca: The Way the Crow Flies, Ann-Marie MacDonald's first novel since her bestselling debut, Fall on Your Knees, opens in 1962 when the McCarthy family moves from Germany to their new home on a Canadian air force base near London, Ontario. Madeleine, [... more]
CDN$23.00
Amazon CA |
Collection (1951-1998)
From Amazon.com: Tip of the Freberg presents four CDs and one VHS-format videotape of classic comedy from the legendary master who paved the way for Saturday Night Live and National Lampoon. This is the definitive collection of the sarcastic but [... more]
CDN$74.99
Amazon CA |
Unsung Heroes of the Royal Canadian Air Force: ...
Author: Cynthia Faryon Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 355 EAN: 9781551539775 ISBN: 1551539772 Number Of Pages: 128 Publication Date: 2003-09-02 UPC: 067570539774 [... more]
CDN$9.95
Amazon CA |
Lost Black Sheep: The Search for WWII Ace Chris Magee
Hits home: I received my copy of Bob's book two weeks after I had scheduled a trip to Waterbury Connecticut to the 56th reunion of my own father's WWII military group. My father passed away last year after a long battle with alzheimers, and I too was on [... more]
CDN$18.01
Amazon CA |
Captains of the Clouds
One of my Favorite James Cagney Films: This is one of my favorite James Cagney films because it somehow manages to intertwine an intricate plot into a very simple and patriotic story. More important however, it relies on one of my favorite film themes, [... more]
CDN$24.95
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