Lisa Doucet Reviews Seasons Before the War
byNostalgic Recollection of Pre-war Newfoundland Charms Kids
Second World War
Jamie Fitzpatrick’s End of Music Explores the Love of Music, Loss of Love and Struggles With the Past
byThe central tie connecting the two story lines is music
Prisoners of War
byAndy Flanagan shares the story of how Second World War prison guards regularly inspected Andrew “Ando” Flanagan’s diary and blacked out sections, ripped them out or beat him for what he wrote
Remembrance Day Reads
byAtlantic Canada’s long military history has inspired some of its most important books
Here Was Freedom
byNewfoundland offered a true escape hatch to political freedom from the Iron Curtain.
Too Young to Die
byMany of Canada’s underage soldiers weren’t made aware that they could be shot, “that they could actually suffer horrifically and become victims,” Dallaire says. “That dimension was not even in the training construct at the time. You were always working at destroying the enemy and you never looked at the fact that you yourself could become a victim.”