Wednesday, March 25, 2020

War Book Club minutes, March 1st, 2020


Items discussed: * indicates available thru RPL


*Betrayal in Berlin: the true story of the Cold War’s most audacious espionage operation/Steve Vogel:


*The Book of War Letters: 100 years of private Canadian correspondence:


*Filing the Ranks: manpower in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1918/Richard Holt:


*The Firebrand: William Lyon Mackenzie and the rebellion in Upper Canada/William Kilbourn:


*Hell in a very small place: the siege of Dien Bien Phu/Bernard B. Fall:


*Hitler: a biography/Peter Longerich:


*The Japanese Empire: grand strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War/S.C.M. Paine:


*Mengele: unmasking the “Angel of Death”/David G. Marwell:


*Modern Air Launched Weapons/Martin J. Dougherty:


*Napoleon: a very short introduction/David A. Bell:


*Night Witches: a novel of World War Two/Kathryn Lasky:


*The North-west is Our Mother: the story of Louis Riel’s people, the Metis Nation/Jean Teillet:


*The River Battles: Canada’s final campaign in World War II Italy/Mark Zuehike:


*Siege of Khe Sanh: the story of the Vietnam War’s largest battle/Robert Pisor:

*Triumph at Kapyong: Canada’s pivotal battle in Korea/Dan Bjarnason:


*V for Vendetta/Alan Moore & David Lloyd:

For this month’s Youtube feature, I thought I couldn’t do better than this interview with Dan Bjarnason by Steve Paikin:

Some controversy in the comments.

Next meeting? When sanity returns to the world, but, don’t worry, I will be in touch…in the meantime, stay healthy – and read a war book.
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