Upcoming Talk: Canadian Great War Monuments

The Royal United Services Institute of Regina

1600 Elphinstone St

Regina SK S4T 3N1

2 January 2020

RUSI SPEAKER SERIES

MONUMENTS AND MEMORIALS TO THE CANADIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE

OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR

By:  Maj (Ret’d) Hrycyna and Maj (Ret’d) Greg Mulatz

Where:  Senior Ranks Mess, Regina Armoury

When:  5:30 pm Thursday 30 January 2020

Duration:  Estimate one hour

Misc:  Open to guests

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:

https://www.reginalibrary.ca/search/2691992

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

https://www.reginalibrary.ca/search/988053

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

https://www.reginalibrary.ca/search/794247

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

https://www.reginalibrary.ca/search/899916

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

https://www.reginalibrary.ca/search/7389

*The Canadians at War 1939-1945:

https://www.reginalibrary.ca/search/202083

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

https://www.reginalibrary.ca/search/2627800

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

https://www.reginalibrary.ca/search/989643

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

https://www.reginalibrary.ca/search/2734008

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

https://www.reginalibrary.ca/search/2792163

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

https://www.reginalibrary.ca/search/2592069

*Man’s Search for Meaning/Viktor Frankl:

https://www.reginalibrary.ca/search/2508401

*The Regiment/Farley Mowat:

https://www.reginalibrary.ca/search/1660531

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

https://www.reginalibrary.ca/search/2815533

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

https://www.reginalibrary.ca/search/2378767

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

War Book Club Minutes: 5th of November version*

WAR BOOK CLUB MINUTES: NOVEMBER 5^TH, 2019

Items discussed: * indicates available thru Regina Public Library:

*And No Birds Sang/Farley Mowat:

https://www.reginalibrary.ca/search/1082

*Death in the Baltic: the World War II sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff/Cathryn J Prince:

https://www.reginalibrary.ca/search/935601

*Fatal Decisions: six decisive battles of WWII from the viewpoint of the vanquished:

https://www.reginalibrary.ca/search/954907

The French-Indian War 1754-1760/Daniel Marston:

https://www.amazon.com/French-Indian-War-1754-1760-Daniel-Marston/dp/1841764566

*Overlord: D-Day and the battle for Normandy/Max Hastings:

https://www.reginalibrary.ca/search/2509324

*Reluctant Warriors: Canadian conscripts in the Great War/Patrick Dennis:

https://www.reginalibrary.ca/search/2200013

*Salt to the Sea: a novel/Ruta Sepetys:

https://www.reginalibrary.ca/search/2507258

*The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: the Library Edition:

https://www.reginalibrary.ca/search/2221056

*The Zookeeper’s Wife/Diane Ackerman:

 https://www.reginalibrary.ca/search/151233

Other items of interest (based on post meeting discussion):

*Other Losses: an investigation into the mass deaths of German prisoners at the hands of the French and Americans after World War II/James Bacque:

https://www.reginalibrary.ca/search/827291

Crimes and Mercies: the fate of German civilians under Allied occupation 1944-1950/James Bacque:

https://www.reginalibrary.ca/search/489415

*Remember, remember,

The Fifth of November,

Gunpowder Treason

And Plot

I see

No reason

Why Gunpowder Treason

Should ever be forgot

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Other Losses: James Bacque -- true or false?

Ralph writes- I noted recently that James Bacque passed away in Toronto; he didn't write much about the war directly, but rather its aftermath, namely the alleged Allied treatment of captured German prisoners. His books were controversial; I read them when they first came out. What do you and club members think of him and his works - true, false, exaggeration, in between...?

Comments for Ralph?

Here are a list of books by James Bacque available thru Regina Public Library:

James Bacque Books at RPL: