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Unforgetting Private Charles Smith

By: Jonathan Locke Hart

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Unforgetting Private Charles Smith

By: Jonathan Locke Hart

Private Charles Smith had been dead for close to a century when Jonathan Hart discovered the soldier’s small diary in the Baldwin Collection at the Toronto Public Library. The diary’s first entry was marked 5 June 1915. After some research, Hart discovered that Charles Smith was an Anglo-Canadian, born in Kent, and that this diary was almost all that remained of this forgotten man, who like so many soldiers from ordinary families had lost his life in the First World War. In reading the diary, Hart discovered a voice full of life, and the presence of a rhythm, a cadence that urged him to bring forth the poetry in Smith’s words. Unforgetting Private Charles Smith is the poetic setting of the words in Smith’s diary, work undertaken by Hart with the intention of remembering Smith’s life rather than commemorating his death.

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Athabasca University Press

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1771992530

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A Township at War

By: Jonathan F. Vance

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A Township at War

By: Jonathan F. Vance

A Township at War takes the reader from rural Canadian field and farm to the slopes of Vimy Ridge and the mud of Passchendaele, and shows how a tightly knit Ontario community was consumed and transformed by the trauma of war. In 1914, the southern Ontario township of East Flamborough was like a thousand other rural townships in Canada, broadly representative in its wartime experience. Author Jonathan Vance draws from rich narrative sources to reveal what rural people were like a century ago—how they saw the world, what they valued, and how they lived their lives. We see them coming to terms with global events that took their loved ones to distant battlefields, and dealing with the prosaic challenges of everyday life. Fall fairs, recruiting meetings, church services, school concerts—all are reimagined to understand how rural Canadians coped with war, modernism, and a world that was changing more quickly than they were. This is a story of resilience and idealism, of violence and small-mindedness, of a world that has long disappeared and one that remains with us to this day.

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Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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1771123885

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Unlikely Soldiers

How Two Canadians Fought the Secret War Against Nazi Occupation

By: Jonathan Vance

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Unlikely Soldiers

How Two Canadians Fought the Secret War Against Nazi Occupation

By: Jonathan Vance

Published to rave reviews, this is the never-before-told story of two brilliant young Canadians who became unlikely soldiers. Ken Macalister was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford. Frank Pickersgill was a doctoral student in classics at l’Université de Paris. Together, they volunteered for the British SOE and soon found themselves being trained to kill. On June 15, 1943, with false identities, they parachuted into the Rhone Valley, but there were double agents within the Resistance; too soon Macalister and Pickersgill were captured, tortured and put on a train for Germany. Vance has written a brilliant, heartbreaking book about heroism, betrayal and sacrifice, capturing the promise of a generation of young men who went to their deaths for a greater cause.

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HarperCollins Canada

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1443403261

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9781443403269

Objects of Concern

Canadian Prisoners of War Through the Twentieth Century

By: Jonathan F. Vance

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Canadian Prisoners of War Through the Twentieth Century

By: Jonathan F. Vance

Fifteen thousand Canadians were captured during Canada's twientieth-century wars. They experienced the bewilderment that accompanied the moment of capture, the humiliation of being completely in the captor's power, and the sense of stagnating in a backwater while the rest of the world moved forward. Jonathan Vance provides the first comprehensive account of how the Canadian government and non-governmental organizations have dealt with the problems of prisoners of war, examining Canada's role in the formation of aspects of international law, the growth and activities of national and local philanthropic agencies, and the efforts of ex-prisoners to secure compensation for the long-term effects of captivity.

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UBC Press

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0774842792

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9780774842792

Death So Noble

Memory, Meaning, and the First World War

By: Jonathan F. Vance

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Death So Noble

Memory, Meaning, and the First World War

By: Jonathan F. Vance

This book examines Canada's collective memory of the First World War through the 1920s and 1930s. It is a cultural history, considering art, music, and literature. Thematically organized into such subjects as the symbolism of the soldier, the implications of war memory for Canadian nationalism, and the idea of a just war, the book draws on military records, memoirs, war memorials, newspaper reports, fiction, popular songs, and films. It takes an unorthodox view of the Canadian war experience as a cultural and philosophical force rather than as a political and military event.

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UBC Press

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0774842318

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9780774842310

The True Story of the Great Escape

Stalag Luft III, March 1944

By: Jonathan F Vance

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The True Story of the Great Escape

Stalag Luft III, March 1944

By: Jonathan F Vance

It shows the variety and depth of the men sent into harms way during World War II, something emphasised by the population of Stalag Luft III. Most of the Allied POWs were flyers, with all the technical, tactical and planning skills that profession requires. Such men are independent thinkers, craving open air and wide-open spaces, which meant than an obsession with escape was almost inevitable' - John D GreshamBetween dusk and dawn on the night of March 24th–25th 1944, a small army of Allied soldiers crawled through tunnels in Germany in a covert operation the likes of which the Third Reich had never seen before.The prison break from Stalag Luft III in eastern Germany was the largest of its kind in the Second World War. Seventy-nine Allied soldiers and airmen made it outside the wire – but only three made it outside Nazi Germany. Fifty were executed by the Gestapo.Jonathan Vance tells the incredible story that was made famous by the 1963 film The Great Escape. The escape is a classic tale of prisoner and their wardens in a battle of wits and wills.The brilliantly conceived escape plan is overshadowed only by the colourful, daring (and sometimes very funny) crew who executed it – literally under the noses of German guards.From their first days in Stalag Luft III and the forming of bonds key to such exploits, to the tunnel building, amazing escape and eventual capture, Vance's history is a vivid, compelling look at one of the greatest 'exfiltration' missions of all time.

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406

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Greenhill Books

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1784384410

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Genetic Analysis of Complex Disease

By: Jonathan L. Haines,Margaret A. Pericak-Vance

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Genetic Analysis of Complex Disease

By: Jonathan L. Haines,Margaret A. Pericak-Vance

Second Edition features the latest tools for uncovering thegenetic basis of human disease The Second Edition of this landmark publication bringstogether a team of leading experts in the field to thoroughlyupdate the publication. Readers will discover the tremendousadvances made in human genetics in the seven years that haveelapsed since the First Edition. Once again, the editorshave assembled a comprehensive introduction to the strategies,designs, and methods of analysis for the discovery of genes incommon and genetically complex traits. The growing social, legal,and ethical issues surrounding the field are thoroughly examined aswell. Rather than focusing on technical details or particularmethodologies, the editors take a broader approach that emphasizesconcepts and experimental design. Readers familiar with theFirst Edition will find new and cutting-edge materialincorporated into the text: Updated presentations of bioinformatics, multiple comparisons,sample size requirements, parametric linkage analysis, case-controland family-based approaches, and genomic screening New methods for analysis of gene-gene and gene-environmentinteractions A completely rewritten and updated chapter on determininggenetic components of disease New chapters covering molecular genomic approaches such asmicroarray and SAGE analyses using single nucleotide polymorphism(SNP) and cDNA expression data, as well as quantitative trait loci(QTL) mapping The editors, two of the world's leading genetic epidemiologists,have ensured that each chapter adheres to a consistent and highstandard. Each one includes all-new discussion questions andpractical examples. Chapter summaries highlight key points, and alist of references for each chapter opens the door to furtherinvestigation of specific topics. Molecular biologists, human geneticists, geneticepidemiologists, and clinical and pharmaceutical researchers willfind the Second Edition a helpful guide to understanding thegenetic basis of human disease, with its new tools for detectingrisk factors and discovering treatment strategies.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471781134

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9780471781134

Unlikely Soldiers

How Two Canadians Fought the Secret War Against Nazi Occupation

By: Jonathan Vance

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How Two Canadians Fought the Secret War Against Nazi Occupation

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HarperCollins Canada

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1443403261

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A Township at War

By: Jonathan F. Vance

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By: Jonathan F. Vance

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Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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1771123885

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Objects of Concern

Canadian Prisoners of War Through the Twentieth Century

By: Jonathan F. Vance

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Canadian Prisoners of War Through the Twentieth Century

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Objects of Concern

Canadian Prisoners of War Through the Twentieth Century

By: Jonathan Franklin William Vance

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Canadian Prisoners of War Through the Twentieth Century

By: Jonathan Franklin William Vance

Interweaves the conditions of Canadian prisoners of war during the two world and the Korean wars, with the efforts of Canadian governmental and non-governmental organizations to assist them with relief supplies or to secure their release. Also shows how the dedication and concerns of the Canadians helped shape international laws and organizations relating to prisoners of war. Includes many old photographs. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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University of British Columbia Press

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0774805048

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Unforgetting Private Charles Smith

Unforgetting Private Charles Smith

A Township at War

A Township at War

Unlikely Soldiers

Unlikely Soldiers

Objects of Concern

Objects of Concern

Death So Noble

Death So Noble

The True Story of the Great Escape

The True Story of the Great Escape

Genetic Analysis of Complex Disease

Genetic Analysis of Complex Disease

Unlikely Soldiers

Unlikely Soldiers

A Township at War

A Township at War

Objects of Concern

Objects of Concern

Objects of Concern

Objects of Concern

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