Monday, December 6, 2021

War Book Club, November 5th, 2021 -- Books discussed at the meeting

 

War Book Club, November 5th, 2021.

Items discussed during the October meeting; * indicates the item is available thru RPL:

 

*The Afghanistan Papers: a secret history of the War/Craig Whitlock:

https://www.reginalibrary.ca/search/3083069

 

*The Art of Resistance: My Four-years in the French Underground: a memoir/Justus Rosenberg:

https://www.reginalibrary.ca/search/2694051

 

*A Hundred and One Days: a Bagdad journal/Asne Selerstad:

https://www.reginalibrary.ca/search/209715

 

*A Wampum Denied: Proctor’s War of 1812/Sandy Antal:

https://www.reginalibrary.ca/search/2647663

 

*The Crusades (Osprey):

https://www.reginalibrary.ca/search/748270

 

*The First Wave: the D-Day warriors who led the way to victory in World War II/Alex Kershaw:

https://www.reginalibrary.ca/search/2694051

 

*Hitler’s Collaborators: choosing between bad and worse in Nazi-occupied Western Europe/Philip Morgan:

https://www.reginalibrary.ca/search/2591506

 

*Lakota America: a new history of Indigenous power/Pekka Hamalainen:

https://www.reginalibrary.ca/search/2817910

 

*Operation Pedestal: The Fleet that battled to Malta/Max Hastings:

https://www.reginalibrary.ca/search/3085821

 

The Rani of Jhassi: Gender, history and fable in India/Harleen Singh:

https://www.amazon.com/Rani-Jhansi-Gender-History-Fable/dp/1107042801

 

The Sea Wolves: A History of the Vikings/Lars Brownsworth:

https://www.amazon.com/Sea-Wolves-History-Vikings/dp/1909979120

 

Storming the Falklands: My war and after/Tony Banks:

https://www.amazon.com/Storming-Falklands-My-War-After/dp/0349000190

 

The Relief of Lucknow/William Forbes-Mitchell:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48572675-the-relief-of-lucknow

 

*Taking Paris: the epic battle for the City of Lights/Martin Dugard:

https://www.reginalibrary.ca/search/3078121

 

*Trial by Fire: a novel/P.T. Deutermann:

https://www.reginalibrary.ca/search/3030264

 

*The Vietnam War: an intimate history/Ken Burns & Geoffrey C. Ward:

https://www.reginalibrary.ca/search/2250014

 

*The World Played Chess: a novel/Robert Dugoni:

https://www.reginalibrary.ca/search/3082916

 

*Blood Red Snow: the memoirs of a German soldier on the Eastern Front/Gunter Koschorrek (Ebook):

https://www.reginalibrary.ca/search/2910035

 

and, Finally:

 

Volokolamsk Highway/Alexandr Bek:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volokolamsk_Highway

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