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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