15 books to read in honour of Remembrance Day
Recognize Remembrance Day this year by learning about military history with one of these memoirs, autobiographies and novels.
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Here are 15 Canadian memoirs, autobiographies, histories and novels that capture an aspect of military history.
- Pumpkinflowers by Matti Friedman
- News from the Red Desert by kevin patterson
- A Disappearance in Damascus by Deborah Campbell
- Waiting for First Light by Romeo Dallaire
- Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden
- Remembrance by Alistair MacLeod
- Paris 1919 by Margaret Macmillan
- Obasan by Joy Kogawa
- Two Generals by Scott Chantler
- Deafening by Frances Itani
- And No Birds Sang by Farley Mowat
- Under an Afghan Sky by Mellissa Fung
- Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
- Minister Without Portfolio by Michael Winter
- Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan