Remembrance reads

As the cooler weather approaches and the rainy days inspire quiet afternoons indoors getting lost in a book, Greater Victoria Public Library’s Margie Thompson has a book list of military-related titles to enjoy this season.

Her recommendations are:

Nonfiction

• And No Birds Sang by Farley Mowat
• A Most Ungentlemanly Way of War: the SOE and the Canadian Connection by Bernd Horn
• Battle of the Atlantic: Gauntlet to Victory and Dam Busters: Canadian Airmen and the Secret
  Raid Against Nazi Germany by Ted Barris
• Failed to Return : Canada’s Bomber Command Sacrifice in the Second World War by Keith Ogilvie
• Hunt the Bismarck : the Pursuit of Germany’s Most Famous Battleship by Angus Konstam
• Masters of the Air : America’s Bomber Boys who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany by Donald Miller
• One Day in August: the Untold Story Behind Canada’s Tragedy at Dieppe by David O’ Keefe
• Rescue at Los Baños: the Most Daring Prison Camp Raid of World War II by Bruce Henderson
• Rogue heroes : a History of the SAS, Britain’s Secret Special Forces Unit that Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War by Ben Macintyre
• The Battle of Arnhem: the Deadliest Airborne Operation of World War II by Anthony Beevor
• The Corvette Navy: True Stories from Canada’s Atlantic War by James Lamb
• The Ghost Ships of Archangel: the Arctic Voyage that Defied the Nazis by William Geroux
• The Longest Day: A Bridge too Far; Other World War II Writings by Cornelius Ryan
• Unsinkable: Five Men and the Indomitable Run of the USS Plunkett by James Sullivan
• When the Sea Came Alive: an Oral History of D-Day by Garrett Graff

Fiction

• Catch-22 Joseph Heller
• Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett
• The Commodore by Peter Deutermann
• The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
• The Huntress by Kate Quinn
• The Twilight World by Werner Herzog