Saturday, January 4, 2020

Last War Book Club Minutes of 2019 -- December 3rd edition


Items discussed: * indicates available at RPL.


*The Age of Nihilism: an inquiry into the death of Western Democracy or, the consequences of Philosophy/Curtis R. McManus:


*All Else is Folly: a tale of war and passion/Peregrine Acland:


*Battleground Prussia: the assault on Germany’s Eastern Front, 1944-45/Prit Buttar:


*Blood and Daring: how Canada fought the American Civil War and forged a nation/John Boyko:


*The Canadian General: Sir William Otter/Desmond Morton:


*The Canadians at War 1939-1945:


*Clio’s Bastards or the wrecking of history and the perversion of our historical consciousness/Curtis R. McManus:



*The Danger Tree: memory, war and the search for a family’s past/David Macfarlane:


*The Devil’s Trick: how Canada fought the Vietnam War/John Boyko:


*Flight. Volume one, stories of Canadian aviation/Deanna J. Driver:


*Killing the SS: the hunt for the worst war criminals in history/Bill O’Reilly:


*Man’s Search for Meaning/Viktor Frankl:


*The Regiment/Farley Mowat:


*Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers: the Texas victory that changed American history/Brian Kilmeade:


*Wartime: the First World War in a Canadian town/Edward Butts:

 Next meeting: Tuesday, January 7th, Central Library, 12th and Lorne -- topic: favorite war books from 2019.

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