Nurses in battledress / Gwladys M. Rees Aikens. Halifax : Cymru Press, 1998. xv, 157 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D811.5 A54 1998
World War, 1939-1945 — Personal narratives, British
World War, 1939-1945 — Medical care — Biography
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The lighthearted soldier : a Canadian's exploits with the Black Devils in WW II / Herb Peppard. Halifax : Nimbus, 1994. xii, 196 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D811 P47 1994
Parachute troops — Biography
World War, 1939-1945 — Personal narratives, Canadian.
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Canada's flowers : history of the corvettes of Canada / by Thomas G. Lynch. [1982 ed.] Halifax : Nimbus, 1982, 1981. 103 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D811 L987
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This was my war : a collection of memories of the 1939-1945 conflict / K. Antoft ; collected and edited by Ian Maxwell. 3rd ed. Tancook Island : Little Daisy Press, 1993. 231 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D811 A2 T45 1993
Antoft, Kell, 1923-
Maxwell, Ian, 1915-
World War, 1939-1945 — Personal narratives.
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J'ai vécu la guerre : temoignages de soldats acadiens, 1939-1945 / Ronald Cormier. Moncton, N.B. : Éditions d'Acadie, 1988. 248, [6] pages : illustrations , maps ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D811 A2 C67 1988
World War, 1939-1945 — Personal narratives, Acadian
World War, 1939-1945 — Campaigns — Western.
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And it was my war too : a companion to This was my war (1992) / collected and edited by Ian Maxwell. Tancook Island : Little Daisy Press, 1994. 313 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D811 A2 A62 1994
World War, 1939-1945 — Personal narratives.
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Running the gauntlet : an oral history of Canadian merchant seamen in World War II / by Mike Parker. Halifax : Nimbus, 1994. xi, 344 pages : illustrations
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D810 T8 P37 1994
Merchant marine — Canada — History — 20th century
World War, 1939-1945 — Personal narratives, Canadian
World War, 1939-1945 — Campaigns — Atlantic Ocean
Merchant mariners — Canada — Biography.
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The merchant navy fights ; tramps against U-boats London : J. Murray, 1940. 121 pages : front. ; 19 1/2 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D810 T8 D618 M554
World War, 1939-1945 — Naval operations, Canadian
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The Ajax affair: citizens and sailors in wartime Halifax, 1939-1945 / by James F. E. White. Halifax : the Author, 1984. vii, 120 pages: illustrations; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D810 C36 C212 W585
Halifax (N.S.) — History — 20th century
Halifax (N.S.) — History — 1939-1945
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The prisoner of Ottawa : Otto Strasser / by Douglas Reed. London : Cape 1953. 272 pages ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D805 C212 R323
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Mona Parsons : from privilege to prison, from Nova Scotia to Nazi Europe / Andria Hill. Halifax : Nimbus, 2000. 180 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D802 N4 H645 2000
World War, 1939-1945 — Underground movements — Netherlands Biography
World War, 1939-1945 — Prisoners and prisons, German
Prisoners of war — Germany Biography
Prisoners of war — Canada Biography.
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Through footless halls of air : the stories of a few of the many who failed to return / Floyd Williston ; foreword by J.E. (Johnnie) Johnson. Burnstown, ON. : General Store Publishing, 1996. xxvii, 310 pages : illustrations, maps
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D792 C2 W54 1996
World War, 1939-1945 — Aerial operations, Canadian
Airmen — Atlantic Provinces — Biography.
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U-boats against Canada : German submarines in Canadian waters / Michael L. Hadley. Kingston, ON. : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1985. xxii, 360 pages, [24] pages of plates : illustrations
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D781 H32 1985
World War, 1939-1945 — Naval operations — Submarine
World War, 1939-1945 — Campaigns — Atlantic Ocean
World War, 1939-1945 — Naval operations, Canadian
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Collision at sea / Gregory P. Pritchard. Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1993. 178 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D779 P75 1993
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On the triangle run / James B. Lamb. Toronto : Macmillan of Canada, 1986. xv, 237 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D779 C3 L35
World War, 1939-1945 — Naval operations, Canadian
World War, 1939-1945 — Atlantic Ocean.
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In all respects ready : the Merchant Navy and the Battle of the Atlantic, 1940-1945 / Frederick B. Watt. Scarborough, ON. : Prentice-Hall Canada, 1985. xviii, 222 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, 1 map, po
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D779 C2 W37 1985
World War, 1939-1945 — Campaigns — Atlantic Ocean
World War, 1939-1945 — Transportation
World War, 1939-1945 — Personal narratives, Canadian
Merchant marine — Canada — History — 20th century.
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White plumes astern : the short, daring life of Canada's MTB Flotilla / C. Anthony Law. Halifax : Nimbus, 1989. 170 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D779 C2 L38
Includes index.
World War, 1939-1945 — Naval operations, Canadian
Torpedo-boats — Canada.
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Canada's war at sea Montreal : A.M. Beatty, 1944. 2 v. in 1. : illustrations (part col.), ports., maps ; 30 c
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D779 C2 C3 1944
Leacock, Stephen Butler, 1869-1944
Roberts, Leslie, 1896-
Morton, J. Alexander
Ward, Wallace.
World War, 1939-1945 — Naval operations
World War, 1939-1945 — Canada
Canada — History, Naval.
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Through the corridors of hell / George H. Evans. 1st ed. Antigonish : Formac Publishing, 1980. 99 pages, 5 pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D770 E92
World War, 1939-1945 — Arctic Ocean
World War, 1939-1945 — Personal narratives, Canadian
World War, 1939-1945 — Naval operations, Canadian.
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An East coast port-- Halifax at war, 1939-1945 / compiled and edited by Graham Metson ; with the assistance of Cheryl Lean. Toronto : McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1981. 157 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D768.15 H173
World War, 1939-1945 — Nova Scotia — Halifax
World War, 1939-1945 — Personal narratives, Canadian
World War, 1939-1945 — Social aspects — Nova Scotia — Halifax
Halifax (N.S.) — History.
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Alex Colville : diary of a war artist / compiled by Graham Metson and Cheryl Lean. Halifax : Nimbus Publishing, 1981. 159 pages : illustrations (some col.) ; 32 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D743.2 C727
Lean, Cheryl
Metson, Graham, 1934-
Painters — Canada — Biography
World War, 1939-1945 — Art and the war.
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A cenotaph rises : the missing heroes / Arthur Thurston. Yarmouth : A. Thurston Publications, 1991. 48 pages.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D680 C212 T544
War memorials — Nova Scotia — Yarmouth — History
World War, 1914-1918 — Monuments — Nova Scotia — Yarmouth — History
World War, 1914-1918 — Registers of dead — Nova Scotia — Yarmouth (County)
Soldiers
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Percy Willmot : Cape Bretoner at war / Brian Douglas Tennyson. Sydney : Cape Breton University Press, 2007. 272 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D640 W744 2007
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Willmot, Percy, — 1884-1919 — Correspondence.
Soldiers — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island — Correspondence
World War, 1914-1918 — Personal narratives, Canadian.
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The letters of a young Canadian soldier during World War I : P. Winthrop McClare of Mount Uniacke, N.S / edited by Dale McClare. Dartmouth : Brook House Press, 2000. xiii, 194 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D640 M213 2000
Soldiers — Canada Correspondence
World War, 1914-1918 Personal narratives, Canadian.
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My darling girl : wartime letters of James Lloyd Evans, 1914-1918 / edited by Susan Evans Shaw. Hamilton, ON. : S. Evans Shaw, 1999. 120 pages : port. ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D640 E82 1999
Includes indexes.
World War, 1914-1918 — Personal narratives, Canadian
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