Friday, April 19, 2019

War Book Club minutes: April 2nd


Items discussed:


Flyboys: a true story of courage/James Bradley:


HMS Ulysses/Alistair MacLean:


One Lucky Devil: The First World War memoirs of Sampson J. Goodfellow/Sampson J. Goodfellow:


Sharks and Little Fish/Wolfgang Ott:


Sharpe’s tiger: Richard Sharpe and the siege of Seringapatam, 1799/Bernard Cornwell:




Trinity: a graphic history of the first atomic bomb/Jonathan Fetter-Vorm:


Obscure Battles and Wars:

Here are some websites which might give you all some ideas of what you could read in support of May’s topic, Obscure Battles and Wars:

Obscure Battles:




Wars:



And for those of you who like to watch:


Pride yourself on your knowledge of Canadian Military History? Why not check out this list of Wars involving Canada – maybe there are conflicts on this list you’d like to learn more about:

And let’s now forget the wars that involved Canada before Canada was Canada, eh? Seven Years War, anyone?

Upcoming program of interest:
Sudeten Anti-Nazi Exiles in Saskatchewan:
Description: Join author James Trettwer to learn how a group of ardent anti-Nazis from the Czechoslovak territory of Sudetenland became exiles in 1938 and found their way to Northern Saskatchewan in the Loon Lake and St. Walburg areas. Learn why they chose Saskatchewan, how they survived on farming homesteads, and what became of the people once known as "Sudeten Canadians". 
For more information, visit:

Movies discussed:
Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957):
Both James Trettwer and I recall being freaked out by this movie when we were kids and watched it on TV: for me, the freak out was when two sailors are killed while in their tent:
“What’s that sound?”
“Sounds like a kid dragging a stick along a picket fence.”
“We ain’t got no picket fence here.”
“AWWWWWWWW!!!!!”
It’s actually an interesting little B-film and available on Youtube:

Also on Youtube, Warren’s “Creepypasta” channel:


Next meeting, Tuesday, May 7th at 7 pm, Central Library – Happy Reading!

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