Canada's Military - In War and in Peace

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Going Crazy in the Green Machine

For many Canadian veterans, memories of their experiences during involvement in overseas military operations torment them daily. They are haunted; they are changed from who they were as proud men and women. How do we support these soldiers to find their way back home? The story of Master Corporal Billy Reardon is an intimate portrayal of his journey from young man to mentally wounded military veteran. We can see him find recovery and reconnection to the military brotherhood with other veterans.

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Narcissus Called My Name

Military personnel and first responders are more susceptible to mental disorders than your average office worker. Studies confirm that the rate of PTSD is fifteen times higher among soldiers than among civilians. Through stories told by veterans themselves and his own experiences while serving in the Canadian Navy, Dr. John Whelan paints a compelling case for an alternate route to assessing mental illness in veterans and first responders.

Operational Stress Injuries and PTSD are among the possible consequences facing members of the Canadian military. While ingrained military training prepares them for action as capable soldiers, this same training may also require them to trade aspects of their humanness--sowing the seeds for lingering mental distress. They may become ghosts of their former selves. if a shift in culture can help members of our military with mental distress, we owe it to them to make that shift possible. New Books, Fiction Writing, Non Fiction Writing, Emdr Therapy, Canadian Military, Military Training, Post Traumatic, Library Books

Ghost In The ranks

Operational Stress Injuries and PTSD are among the possible consequences facing members of the Canadian military. While ingrained military training prepares them for action as capable soldiers, this same training may also require them to trade aspects of their humanness--sowing the seeds for lingering mental distress. They may become ghosts of their former selves. if a shift in culture can help members of our military with mental distress, we owe it to them to make that shift possible.

The story of Nova Scotia’s history is usually presented through the lens of military history. Lost in that narrative are the less visible stories of war and peace: contemporary stories told from outside the military community; anti-militarist stories; and stories of soldiers who don’t fit the white, cisgender male, heterosexual norm. Speaking Up: New Voices on War and Peace in Nova Scotia brings many previously neglected voices to the fore. Canadian Armed Forces, Military Veterans, Nova Scotia, Military History, Paperback Books

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Speaking Up

The story of Nova Scotia’s history is usually presented through the lens of military history. Lost in that narrative are the less visible stories of war and peace: contemporary stories told from outside the military community; anti-militarist stories; and stories of soldiers who don’t fit the white, cisgender male, heterosexual norm. Speaking Up: New Voices on War and Peace in Nova Scotia brings many previously neglected voices to the fore.

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First Canadian Army Victory in Europe 1944-45

After Dunkirk, as the tattered remnants of Britain's best troops returned home without their heavy weapons, Canadian troops moved in to defend northwest Europe, sending in virtually all of its disposable weapon resources and 368,000 soldiers. The majority of these were to be part of the First Canadian Army, which would play a key role leading to the unconditional surrender by Nazi Germany on May 9, 1945.

A Nation at War brings together a collection of sixty-two essays covering all aspects of the Canadian experience in the Second World War. It is a readable and authoritative introduction to both the historical narrative and the interpretive debates by the best selling author of Fields of Fire and Cinderella Army. Cinderella, Wilfrid Laurier University, Laurier University, Review Essay, Best Selling Author, College Essay, Second World, Magazine, Book Cover

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A Nation At War

A Nation at War brings together a collection of sixty-two essays covering all aspects of the Canadian experience in the Second World War. It is a readable and authoritative introduction to both the historical narrative and the interpretive debates by the best selling author of Fields of Fire and Cinderella Army.

Great Canadian War Heroes

Great Canadian War Heroes tells the amazing stories of the 16 Canadians who received the Victoria Cross during WWII. They came from all walks of life and from various ranks within the Canadian Forces, but they all had one thing in common: each displayed exceptional bravery in the face of the enemy.

Black military heritage in Canada is still generally unknown and unwritten. Most Canadians have no idea that Blacks served, fought, and died on European battlefields, all in the name of freedom. The story of the overt racist treatment of Black volunteers is a shameful chapter in Canadian history. It does, however, represent an important part of the Black legacy and the Black experience. It is a story worth reporting and worth sharing. Black Canadians, Black Experience, Canadian History, African People, The Secret Book, Black Books, The Secret History

The Black Battalion

Black military heritage in Canada is still generally unknown and unwritten. Most Canadians have no idea that Blacks served, fought, and died on European battlefields, all in the name of freedom. The story of the overt racist treatment of Black volunteers is a shameful chapter in Canadian history. It does, however, represent an important part of the Black legacy and the Black experience. It is a story worth reporting and worth sharing.

Cyclist troops in Canada's armed forces spent most of WWI digging trenches, patrolling roads, and delivering dispatches. But during the Hundred Days campaign at the end of the war, Canada's Cyclist troops came into their own. At Amiens, Cambrai, and especially the Pursuit from the Sensée, they made pioneering contributions to the development of the Canadian Corps's combined arms strategy and mobile warfare doctrine, all the while with the consummate professionalism the Corps became renowned for. Books, Hundred Days, Reading Online, First World

Riding Into Battle

Cyclist troops in Canada's armed forces spent most of WWI digging trenches, patrolling roads, and delivering dispatches. But during the Hundred Days campaign at the end of the war, Canada's Cyclist troops came into their own. At Amiens, Cambrai, and especially the Pursuit from the Sensée, they made pioneering contributions to the development of the Canadian Corps's combined arms strategy and mobile warfare doctrine, all the while with the consummate professionalism the Corps became renowned for.

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No Lack Of Courage

No Lack of Courage is the story of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's Operation Medusa, the largely Canadian action in Afghanistan in September 2006, to dislodge a heavily entrenched Taliban force in Afghanistan's Kandahar Province. In the end, the brunt of the fighting fell on the Canadians, and the operation exacted a great cost. However, the battle also demonstrated that Canada had shed its peacekeeping mythology and was once more ready to commit troops deliberately to combat.

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Dieppe: Canada's Forgotten Heroes

This book is the story of the (mostly) Canadian raid on Dieppe and adjacent beaches on August 19, 1942--considered the greatest disaster in Canadian military history. John Mellor was there as a commando. He interviewed over 200 people and produced this story of the planing and preparations for the raid, a detailed and personal telling of the men in battle, scene by scene and often shot by shot, and the years of suffering and resistance as survivors in prisoner-of-war camps

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Significant Incident

David Bercuson gives readers a rare inside look at the state of our armed forces. He draws on historical sources, leaked documents, material submitted to the Commission of Inquiry into the Somalia Affair, and on scores of exclusive interviews. He uses this material to describe today's army, both on duty in Bosnia and on the home front. It is against this background that the deterioration of a proud regiment, the Canadian Airborne, and its ill-fated mission to Somalia begins to make sense.

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Sunray

In Sunray: The Death and Life of Captain Nichola Goddard, award-winning journalist Valerie Fortney examines how a woman raised by self-described "left-wing hippies" came to find herself fighting and dying in Afghanistan. She was as strong, as capable and as brave as any male in uniform, and 26-year-old Captain Nichola Goddard became the 16th Canadian soldier to die in Afghanistan. She also earned herself a spot in the history books: the first female Canadian soldier to die in combat.

On The Triangle Run

With this re-publication of James Lamb's masterfully written book, a new generation will have the opportunity to discover the immense contribution of Canada's fighting forces to the Allied victory over Germany. Many believed the Atlantic crossing was the most dangerous naval mission of the war. He showed, through his vivid and compelling account, the story of the equally heroic and dangerous battle to control the shipping lanes between New York, Halifax and St. John's: the infamous Triangle Run.

The Allied victory that opened Antwep. Canadian soldier Denis Whitaker was there on the sodden polders of Zeeland. He remembers the brutal battle to save the Dutch in their own land. He and the many Allied troops fought valiantly against the Germans to open up Antwerp to deliver the much-needed supplies. This big book, full of maps, is bursting with first-hand accounts in a first-rate narrative. Place Names, Big Book, Great Britain, Soldier

Tug of War

The Allied victory that opened Antwep. Canadian soldier Denis Whitaker was there on the sodden polders of Zeeland. He remembers the brutal battle to save the Dutch in their own land. He and the many Allied troops fought valiantly against the Germans to open up Antwerp to deliver the much-needed supplies. This big book, full of maps, is bursting with first-hand accounts in a first-rate narrative.