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A Hundred Years of Tears
One Soldier's Story from the Savannah to the Somme
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Follow in the boot steps of Sgt. John Guess, a young soldier from Southern California and recipient of America’s Distinguished Service Cross, as he tells the story of his journey from the farm land of the Savannah Ranch to the farm lands of...
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OHMS
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Michael Scholfield tells his life journey as a junior salesman, bandsman, Bandmaster, teacher, church organist, choirmaster and Adjudicator, travelling across the globe, from the seaside town of Brighton, to the Tower of London, Malta, Tripoli,...
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The Lewis Letters
The Exploits of a 20th Century Aviator and Adventurer
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Alexander Lewis played an active role in the seminal events of the 20th century. From the battlefields of WWI Europe to Northern Ireland and Palestine, from the Hudson Strait Expedition to WWII Ferry Command, these are his stories in his own...
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Farm Boy To Fly Boy
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From his childhood growing up in Depression-era rural Manitoba to his rise through the ranks to become a colonel in the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), Col Gordon Brennand’s memoir, Farm Boy to Flyboy, is as much a history of the RCAF in the...
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The King's Shilling and Stalag V111B
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Born in London, England in 1922, Anthony Parnell's interest in aeroplanes took hold of his imagination at an early age. He became a plane spotter with his friend at Croydon Aerodrome. As his love grew, his dream was that one day he would fly....
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The Berlin Enigma
Memories - From Boy to Spy
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As John Harrington grew older, he sat down with his daughter to share the story of his life. What she learned made her rethink the man who had raised her. The tale begins with his childhood in the Australian outback, and follows his immigration...
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It’s Been an Adventure
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Shared truth through humour, love and the insecurity of life are within these pages. Raw adventure of moment and its humble seeking of understanding, gently weaves its way. Here among the unknown and unforeseen intensity of loss, and its searing...
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Better Than Some, Worse Than Others
The way it was: - Remembering the South African Border War in the 1980’s and 90’s.
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Not yet seventeen, Wayne Webster, along with many young men around South Africa, abruptly leaves a life of relative peace and tranquility to fulfill his obligatory military service duties during the South African Border War. He has no idea what...
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Letters to Vimy
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Dear Uncle Oscar… I’m going to put a note on the back of our book to explain to readers what our correspondence inside is all about. It goes like this... A hundred years ago a German shell fell on Pte. Oscar French on Vimy Ridge and ended his...
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Write Soon and Often
The Life of a Bomber Pilot Through His Letters Home
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Travelling through Europe in the summer of 1939, 17-year-old Donald Plaunt witnessed preparations for war in every country he visited. After he completed high school in 1941, Donald became part of that war when he enlisted in the RCAF and became...
