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By Grout, Derek1998., Tempus ; Arcadia Call No: QWF 910.9163 E55g Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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By Grout, Derek2014., Dundurn Call No: QWF 910.9163 G882r Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Think of a major shipping disaster and the first to spring to mind is that of the Titanic; however, only two years later, a tragedy of similarly epic proportions took place in the confines of the St Lawrence River in Canada. On a dark night in May 1914 the Norwegian collier Storstad rammed the Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Ireland. In less than fifteen minutes over 1000 people died, either trapped in the ship's hull or drowned trying to escape. They died within sight of land. It was the biggest Canadian maritime disaster in peacetime".
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By Grout, Derek2015., Dundurn Call No: QWF 940.4 G882t Edition: ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "What was it like to be a field gunner in the Great War? Thunder in the Skies details the daily life of Canadian artillerymen fighting in WWI, in a way no other book has before. Posted just behind the front lines, field gunners spent grueling months supporting the infantry in the trenches. Theirs was a very different war, as dangerous or more at times as the one on the front lines. Drawing on the unpublished letters and diary of field gunner Lt. Bert Sargent and his fellow soldiers, Thunder in the Skies takes the reader from enlistment in late 1914, through training camp, to the Somme, Vimy Ridge, Passchendaele, the Hundred Days Offensive, and home again with peace. An ordinary Canadian writing home to ordinary people, Sargent gives a wrenching, insightful account of his tight-knit band of soldiers swept up in some of the most important battles of the war that shaped the twentieth century."--
