Best 20th century canadian history books according to redditors

We found 93 Reddit comments discussing the best 20th century canadian history books. We ranked the 54 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.

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Top Reddit comments about 20th Century Canadian History:

u/past_is_prologue · 312 pointsr/AskHistorians

Anglo/Canadian artillery in Normandy in the summer of 1944 was so efficient many German units became convinced that the Allies had a "super cannon" that was capable of automatic artillery fire. George Blackburn in his book The Guns of Normandy tells the story of a German Colonel coming across the lines with a white flag saying that he and his men would surrender on the condition that he would be allowed to witness the Canadians' "machine gun artillery" in action.

Of course, the Canadians were only using the humble 25pdr and it was their doctrine/training that allowed such massive amounts of firepower to get down range.

edit: Added hotlink to the book. It is one of the most compelling Second World War narratives I've ever read and I recommend it to anyone interested in military history.

u/Achilles_099 · 46 pointsr/mildlyinteresting

Contrary to popular belief being a soldier in the First World War was often characterized by long periods of waiting around not doing a whole lot, and a lot of soldiers engaged in crafting things like this to pass the time and take their minds off the stress of being at the front. These aspects of soldiers' lives are discussed in Tim Cook's new book which focuses on Canadian soldiers in the Great War, The Secret Lives of Soldiers. I'd highly recommend any of his books, he uses a ton of primary sources from men who were there which really brings the history to life.

u/airchinapilot · 26 pointsr/canada

I dig that he is wearing the emblem of the First Special Service Force. That is the red spear patch on his right shoulder that says "USA" over the top and "CANADA" down the middle.

The First Special Service Force was the progenitor to the special forces of both Canada and the U.S. It was a unified commando unit formed during WWII that trained men of mountaineering, woodsmen and other outdoor professions as commandos. The unit had both American and Canadian commanders and they became a cohesive fighting force that learned to fight in darkness, learned to fight hand to hand and use their backgrounds to attack in a variety of environments.

They saw action in the Aleutian islands, Italy (at Anzio in particular) and in France. The Germans came to call them "The Black Devils" because they conducted raids at night with their faces blackened by boot polish.

A good oral history to read is [The Black Devil Brigade: The True Story of the First Special Service Force in WWII]. (https://www.amazon.ca/Black-Devil-Brigade-Special-Service/dp/0935553509)

There is also a Hollywood movie called "The Devil's Brigade" which isn't bad. It depicts one of the FSSF's notable battles where they attacked a mountain top by climbing up a cliff side under fire.

u/NMW · 25 pointsr/AskHistorians

I am not actually an historian (please don't fire me, Artrw), but rather a part-time professor in the English department at a large Canadian university.

Nevertheless, my research focus is the historiography of the Great War and the degree to which developments in same have resolutely failed to be incorporated into how my own discipline (that is, English) chooses to teach the War and its attendant literature. Virtually all of my professional and recreational reading has to do with the history and cultural memory of the War, and I sometimes find myself identifying more with the cultural concerns and realities of the 1910s-20s than I do with those of my own age as a result.

Anyway, my daily life is pretty straightforward:

  • Most days I have to myself, whatever else I have to do. I live hand-to-mouth, officially below my country's poverty line, but in a manner that is still quite comfortable for all that. My needs are modest and my scope limited. I am not married, and live with a couple of housemates; my girlfriend is in a similar financial and professional situation, so we have a lot of mutual complaints and a lot of fun as well.

  • When classes are in session (which I'm glad to say they will be again in a fortnight), I spend anywhere from two to four days of the week on campus. Each class I teach typically operates in two 1.5-hour sessions on different days, and I've got to have my office hours besides. Working on campus is just more efficient even apart from this, though -- none of the distractions of home, and immediate access to the library to boot.

  • A fair amount of time is devoted to class preparation and presentation, and I'm sorry to say that the classes themselves typically have nothing to do with my historical focus. I've managed to sneak in some stuff from time to time, but mostly I just need to acquaint the students with other things. I love doing it all the same, though.

  • Still, this may not forever be the case! While I'm teaching a delightful course on myth and fantasy this fall, I've been working on getting the department to set up a "Literature of War in English" course for the next academic year. It's a gap we've keenly felt for a while now, and I intend to fill it.

  • When I'm not teaching, prepping, office-houring or marking, I spend my time working on the other projects that sustain me. My current focus is on the amazing propaganda bureaus in Britain during the Great War (Masterman's Wellington House and Lord Northcliffe's Crewe House specifically), but I have lots of other irons in the fire -- some even in fields far-removed from this one (i.e. the intersection of religious and aesthetic modernism in early 20th C. England, the works of a major Canadian humourist/economist, Ezra Pound's and Thomas Hardy's treatment of the life of Jesus in their poetry, etc.).

    Anyway, apart from all of this, from time to time I get to come into contact with interesting figures in Canada's literary-historical establishment. I've had some delightful beers with Tim Cook, taken tea/sherry/all sorts of hospitality with the amazing Peter Neary, and been put in the company of the likes of Jack Granatstein, Gwynne Dyer and Jonathan Vance.

    In all, my life is wonderful. I'm paid a living wage to do things I'd probably do for free, and in my spare time I get to interact with you lovely people. It's pretty good.
u/shadowsweep · 16 pointsr/aznidentity

well, let's remember a few things..

Nazis were inspired by Americans http://i.imgur.com/QLcH1sF.jpg

 

And Nazi war criminals were exonerated and integrated into America [another Nazi state].

http://www.amazon.com/Operation-Paperclip-Intelligence-Program-Scientists/dp/0316221031/

 

America is literally the heart and soul of Nazism.

u/cypressgreen · 15 pointsr/MorbidReality

Fire in the Grove: The Cocoanut Grove Tragedy and Its Aftermath

Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919

Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894

The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche

Curse of the Narrows: The Halifax Disaster of 1917

Chicago Death Trap: The Iroquois Theatre Fire of 1903

To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire


Albatross
"One late summer's day, the yacht Trashman set sail from Annapolis to Florida. On board were five young people: John, the captain; Meg, Mark, Brad, and Debbie Scaling. When the boat sailed into a gale, the eighty-knot winds shredded the sails. Forty-foot seas crashed through the cabin windows, and Trashman sank, leaving the crew adrift in a rubber dinghy. Albatross tells the story of how Debbie and Brad survived and how the tragedy changed Debbie Scaling's life forever."

have not read yet, supposed to be good:
Flight 232: A Story of Disaster and Survival

u/bcanders2000 · 12 pointsr/writing

One thing I found useful was reading biographies or histories of soldier's lived lives in combat (e.g. Vimy, Forsaken Army). Anything that gets into first hand accounts of soldiers' experiences in battles. I find how their descriptions differ from a typical armchair author is they often portray the visceral experience of combat. The whump of an explosion kicking through the window and punching them in the chest with a force that picks them off their feet and dashes them into the far wall; the nip of bullets sending shards of wood raining down soldiers taking cover behind trunks of trees. I find including those elements adds a lot of gritty action.

The other thing that comes across is battle is chaotic and fluid. People just die, and at times it almost seems random. A sea of bullets are sailing across the battlefield, and whether a soldier lives or dies comes down to if they are standing in the wrong place in the wrong time. Advances flow into retreats. People are wounded, and they scream, and they scream, and they scream. Victory is not a straight line, and neither is defeat. Adding these elements I find creates a sense of danger, especially if you've established you are willing to kill off or punish your characters.

u/arsenefinger · 11 pointsr/toronto

I'd recommend Pierre Berton's Vimy for a detailed yet engaging account of what the battle was like for the people involved, and what the victory meant for Canada as a nation.

u/tsetseflier · 11 pointsr/AskHistorians

Hi mate, the word you may be looking for is "desertion", the common shirking-of-duty charge - I can't find any instances of American sailors engaging in mutiny during the time you've asked about. During the second world war over 21,000 American soldiers were charged in courts martial for desertion, 49 death sentences were handed out, and only one poor lad was executed for the crime.

Private Eddie Slovik is the only American soldier executed for desertion since their Civil War. He was a replacement in the Western Front, and got a rough deal. From his own confession (all sic'd):

"I was so scared nerves and trembling that at the time the other replacements moved out I couldn’t move. I stayed their in my fox hole till it was quite and I was able to move. I then walked in town. Not seeing any of our troops so I stayed over night at a French hospital. The next morning I turned myself over to the Canadian Provost Corp. After being with them six weeks I was turned over to American M.R They turned me lose. I told my commanding officer my story. I said that if I had to go out their again Id run away. He said their was nothing he could do for me so I ran away again AND ILL RUN AWAY AGAIN IF I HAVE TO GO OUT THEIR."

His court martial from beginning to the death sentence being handed down was under two hours long. He did himself no favors by confessing to the charge and saying he'd do it again.

Under appeal, it was the opinion of the panel that "He has directly challenged the authority of the government, and future discipline depends upon a resolute reply to this challenge. If the death penalty is ever to be imposed for desertion, it should be imposed in this case, not as a punitive measure nor as retribution, but to maintain that discipline upon which alone an army can succeed against the enemy."

He was shot three weeks after his conviction. This book should cover just about everything involved with the case; and as mentioned, Pvt. Slovik is the only American executed for desertion since 1865.

u/[deleted] · 9 pointsr/malefashionadvice

Doesn't look like it's in print anymore but if you can find this book you can read a bunch of his stories. He's featured quite a bit in it. He was a hell of a guy.

u/IphtashuFitz · 8 pointsr/worldnews

I believe this was the first book I read about it. A little while later I came across this book written by the German Security Officer for the camp, which confirmed a lot of the original stories and added a few more to the history of the place. I haven't read this one yet but I've heard good things about it. Now that I'm thinking about it all again I may just pick this last one up myself.

u/911bodysnatchers322 · 8 pointsr/conspiracy

Ask and ye shall receive.

Gnostic Globalists / Fascists

u/MisterSquidInc · 8 pointsr/Prisonwallet

Nah, they were liberated before it was ever flown.

Check out the book written by one of the prisoners at Colditz cataloguing every escape attempt made from Colditz during the war.

u/Aldimiri · 6 pointsr/canada

Death So Noble by Jonathon Vance. It's a really illuminating look into how collective memory works, how Canadians remember their own history, and how they choose to teach it and why. As a Canadian, I'm sure you remember how much World War I was talked about in history class. How much emphasis was placed on our identity being forged in its fires. This book explains why that was so important to the public at large. Why Canadians viewed their experience in the war the way they did. And how Canadians chose to remember World War I.

u/partial_to_dreamers · 6 pointsr/news

To add to this, Curse of the Narrows is an excellent non-fiction account of the explosion and the aftermath.

u/jksmith9 · 6 pointsr/oddlysatisfying

Into the Blizzard by Michael Winter

Amazon

u/Aristotle29 · 4 pointsr/wma

I'm not sure that there are many 17th-19th century manuals written detailing how to fight with a bayonet. Mostly manuals on how to follow the drill to fix your bayonet. I do know of two books on the matter of fighting with bayonets, although not German and maybe later than what you want, they should be similar.

Alfred Hutton' book on bayonets:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1845743687/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=1V61XML6DWY6F&coliid=I213T5F5M09IQ8

A Canadian book on bayonet and close quarter fighting:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0978465296/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=1V61XML6DWY6F&coliid=I3SEUP2DJQEYKQ

u/americangoyisback · 4 pointsr/Warthunder

To those who croon about how the German POW's had it made and how life was a paradise for them.

Well, there is history and then there is what really happened.

http://www.amazon.com/Crimes-Mercies-Civilians-Occupation-1944%C2%961950/dp/0889225672/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1419322289&sr=1-1&keywords=james+bacque

http://www.amazon.com/OTHER-LOSSES-Shocking-Civilians-Eisenhowers/dp/1559580992/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1419322289&sr=1-3&keywords=james+bacque

http://www.amazon.com/After-Reich-Brutal-History-Occupation/dp/0465003389/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1419322289&sr=1-5&keywords=james+bacque


http://www.amazon.com/Morgenthau-Plan-Influence-American-Postwar/dp/1892941902/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1419322574&sr=1-1&keywords=morgenthau+plan

http://whale.to/b/walsh11.html

It's OK to have not known this before - the victors get to write history, after all.

This is not to excuse the German and other Axis nations atrocities (especially the Ukrainians). On the East Front, wholesale murder of whole towns, never mind villagers, was normal (for example the much celebrated and admired, because it was a great military achievemtn by Manstein, the retaking of Kharkov in 1943, ended in the wholesale execution of the WHOLE TOWN in revenge for resisting).

The savagery of Russians has been told many times (in my family, my grandma flatly stated that "When the Russians came, they first stole everything and then raped everything that moved"... And no, we were Russian allies at that point).

But the Western Allies not only shot POWs in Germany as a matter of course, but starved the whole German population as an act of revenge. The Morgenthau Plan was in full force right after WW2, and only after Mr. Hoover and some Mormons and Red Cross (and others) actually visited Germany and saw what the Allies were doing there was it cut back a bit.

Due to the Cold War, both the Russians and the West tried to woo the Germans - in fact, the first mass feeding of the Berliners was done by the Soviets, to demonstrate how much better they were than the Western Allies who starved the whole population and took hundreds of thousands for slave labor!

u/LeroyPK · 4 pointsr/todayilearned

I read a captivating book about this when I was younger: The Execution of Private Slovik. http://www.amazon.com/Execution-Private-Slovik-William-Bradford/dp/1594160031

u/50calPeephole · 3 pointsr/boston

There is a great book "Curse of the Narrows" that talks about the explosion- things that happened are amazing.

u/StephenInKanata · 3 pointsr/canada

I have not read it, but Greg Malone's book is supposed to be good ...

https://www.amazon.ca/Dont-Tell-Newfoundlanders-Newfoundlands-Confederation/dp/0307401332

u/TomServoHere · 3 pointsr/CatastrophicFailure

I'm with /u/Str8OuttaFlavortown on this not really fitting this subreddit's rules, but it really is a compelling story. If interested, check out Curse of the Narrows by Laura MacDonald.

u/Dreadlord_Kurgh · 3 pointsr/AskHistorians

One of my favourites is The Armada by Garrett Mattingly. Exceptionally well written and entertaining, very well researched but accessible to a general audience. Bit difficult to find these days, but you should be able to order it online.


And there's lots of interesting stuff in Canadian history! If you're interested in comemorating the centennial of the First World War, I suggest reading At the Sharp End by Tim Cook, about the Canadian Corps from 1914-16. The sequel, Shock Troops, covers 1916-18. Both very well written, engaging and well researched. Prepare for some disturbing and heartbreaking stuff though.

u/LeonardNemoysHead · 3 pointsr/socialism

Here is a definitive three-volume history on the CNT during the Spanish Civil War.

Other books:

Anarchism and Workers' Self-Management in Revolutionary Spain

Bookchin's The Spanish Anarchists

The Revolution and the Civil War in Spain

u/iLikeToBiteMyNails · 2 pointsr/toronto

Kinda late but I also highly recommend this book as well:

https://www.amazon.ca/Vimy-Pierre-Berton/dp/0385658427

u/Tom_Thomson_ · 2 pointsr/CanadaPolitics

Being an Ontarian myself, I'm not as familiar with East Coast artists but I love Hey Rosetta!, Great Big Sea, and Rick Mercer.

I'm honoured to say that I read a book at a young age that described the heroic sacrifice of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment. Their sacrifices to King and Country will never be forgotten in my books.

Here's an interesting book on the referendum that decided Newfoundland's place in Confederation: Don't Tell the Newfoundlanders: The True Story of Newfoundland's Confederation with Canada

u/WARFTW · 2 pointsr/AskHistorians
u/Spudnik123 · 2 pointsr/HistoryPorn

I just wanted to say if anyone is interested in learning more about this battle and Canada's role in it I can't recommend Pierre Burton's Vimy enough. Burton's style and passion make reading the book worthwhile, and he really gives a great understanding of the battle itself and what victory meant for Canada.

Here's the Amazon link :
http://www.amazon.com/Vimy-ebook/dp/B004H3W3T2/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1343457479&sr=8-2&keywords=Vimy

u/Venus230 · 2 pointsr/AlternativeHistory

LOL it's on you to click on the OP.



Four million persons perished because of the ethnic cleansing carried out by, Russians, Poles, Czechs, and Serbs according to the former German Prime Minister Konrad Adenauer

Five million Germans starved to death in occupied Germany according to estimates by the Canadian James Bacque, and 2 million German Soldiers died in allied captivity often while performing slave labor in Auschwitz like - and worse - conditions.

General Eisenhower prohibited the German Public from sharing their own meager rations with detained German soldiers on pain of death. Hence from 1944 until 1948 a U.S. and Russian Holocaust for the Germans was on going.

For more information on this topic see books by the following authors:

u/QNIA42Gf7zUwLD6yEaVd · 2 pointsr/canada

Just to make it easier to find - it's spelled "Pierre Berton", not "Burton". Also, "Hostages to Fortune" was written by Peter C. Newman, not Pierre Berton (more about Newman below).

Here's Berton's list of books.

Some great foundational stuff about Canada is as /u/MonotheistThrowaway describes, in the 1812 things. There's also other stuff by him that's excellent:

"The National Dream" and "The Last Spike", about the construction of the railroad across Canada.

"The Great Depression", which of course is about the Great Depression.

"Vimy", which is about the Canadians at Vimy Ridge in 1917. It's not especially "scholarly", but it's incredibly accessible and a riveting read.

"The Arctic Grail", which is about the many attempts to find the North-West Passage. See also the Stan Rogers song about this. It's a pretty key piece of Canadian history.

There is lots and lots more in his bibliography. If you go out of your mind and decide to read all of his work, you'll probably know more about Canadian history and identity that 95% of those born here.

Peter Newman wrote similarly great Canadian history. He did a three-volume piece about the Hudson Bay Company, in the books Company of Adventurers, Caesars of the Wilderness and Merchant Princes. There's a sort of a "condensed" version called "Empire of the Bay" that might be a quicker read.

If you ever get bored of reading but you still want to learn Canada's history, check out "Canada: A People's History", an incredible series done by CBC back in 2001. That's a link to a playlist with all episodes. I can't possibly recommend it enough.

Edit to add: Welcome to Canada, friend!

u/jimintoronto · 2 pointsr/history

I can tell you that the Canadian Government has had a "military veteran's memory project " for about 30 years, to record and save personal audio interviews with men who served in the Canadian military in both of the World wars, and Korea.

Link to it here.

First War. http://www.thememoryproject.com/stories/WWI

Second War here. http://www.thememoryproject.com/stories/WWII

Canada also has the most complete archive of WW1 materials of all the nations that were involved. We have the military records of every one of the men that served in the CEF, all on digital records, available on line to any one that is interested .

link. here. http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/personnel-records/Pages/personnel-records.aspx

And finally here is a suggestion for a book.

Ghosts have warm hands . by Will Bird, who was a Canadian soldier during the Great War. He was a perceptive and observant man. His book is required reading in many Canadian history courses. It is still available as a used book on Amazon.ca

link here. https://www.amazon.ca/Ghosts-have-warm-hands-1916-1919/dp/1896979009

Jim B.

u/I_Stink · 2 pointsr/canada

Get the book "Dont Tell the Newfoundlanders". It discusses how Newfoundland was treated like a playing chip by the Brits and the crooked politics that took place in her joining Canada. It is extremely thorough. If you are a newfoundlander, your blood may boil while reading it.

https://www.amazon.ca/Dont-Tell-Newfoundlanders-Newfoundlands-Confederation/dp/0307401332

u/ayatollah77 · 2 pointsr/canada

Thanks so much for the reply! I'll definitely look into all of that.

One of the best times I've had discussing/learning about Vimy was a couple years ago at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa. I was visiting at the time, and have since moved here so I'm planning on going back. Anyway, that's beside the point. We were wandering around the museum, and came upon the Vimy Ridge area and an older man who was a volunteer came and asked if we wanted to have him guide us through. I felt like I knew a fair bit about the battle already, having read books like Vimy and spending time in libraries etc, but we decided why not eh! Wow, best decision BY FAR. Not only the way he was able to tell the story, but all the info he had along with private letters and stories that have never been published. We ended up spending over an hour and a half JUST in the Vimy area talking about it, and learning and hearing many new stories. To this day I hope I could go back and find this particular volunteer to go through again. He had a wealth of knowledge on Passchendaele as well. He had photos from a trip he'd taken out there to show what it all looked like now, most interesting being looking at the area where Passchendaele took place from the same vantage point as the giant photo on the wall in the museum.

Anyway, I ramble, but thanks so much for the reply and info. Also if you've never been I highly recommend the War Museum. Hopefully I'll get back there and find that particular volunteer.

u/countercom2 · 2 pointsr/Sino

You sure about that?

The Asian subs are constantly brigaded by ccj and other kkk type racists and reddit mods look the other way. Quit crying racism. The reason many groups have contempt for your race is because of all the past and present crimes and sanctimonious hypocrisy.

 

Aware Africans, Native Indians, Middle Eastern "rapefugees", Hawaiins, Mexicans, Chinese, Laotians, Cambodians, Koreans, Japanese, Filipinos didn't wake up and decide to hate white people. You guys earned it.

What should we call a nation that exonerates war criminals?

http://www.amazon.com/Operation-Paperclip-Intelligence-Program-Scientists/dp/0316221031/

routinely destroys innocent countries

http://www.amazon.com/Killing-Hope-C-I-Interventions-II--Updated/dp/1567512526/ (that's just a tiny sample)

and then lectures about human rights and rule of law?

jesus? manifest destiny? white man's burden? civilizing mission? indispensable nation? American exceptionalism?

Don't be salty when people call out the hypocrisy.

u/Warlizard · 2 pointsr/AdviceAnimals

One more book and I can't recommend this highly enough:

http://www.amazon.com/Black-Devil-Brigade-Special-Service/dp/0935553509

This is probably the most fascinating book I've ever read.

u/slcrook · 1 pointr/wwi

"Ghosts Have Warm Hands" by Will R. Bird provides a starkly frank memoir from the point of view of an ordinary Canadian Soldier.

I also went to great lengths to ensure the story and character's combat experiences within "Killing is a Sin" was as authentic as possible.

u/_Helper_Bot_ · 1 pointr/conspiracy
u/SupremeReader · 1 pointr/CombatFootage

No, I don't see "the difference" with Iraqi Insurgency, or Taliban's after their removal from power.

Did the "first" Chechen war too end in 1995 after removal of Dudayev from power in Grozny?

> We might as well say WW2 didn't end since there are still Nazis...

Nazi insurgency (Werwolf) after the fall of Berlin was practically non-existing. The most they did in West Germany was to assassinate a mayor of a small town. Read http://www.amazon.com/Werwolf-National-Socialist-Guerrilla-1944-1946/dp/0802008623/

u/Aetheurian · 1 pointr/canada

Impressive memorial with an interesting history in its own right. If anyone is interested in the role Vimmy Ridge has played in informing Canadian history, culture, and identity, I recommend Death So Noble, by Jonathon Vance. It's an interesting examination of how myth-making works. It examines how Vimmy Ridge came to mean so much to Canadians. It really wasn't because Vimmy Ridge was an important or decisive battle.

u/Riggedit · 1 pointr/conspiracy
u/trauma88 · 1 pointr/ww2

This is most likely the book you're looking for: https://www.amazon.com/Colditz-Story-P-R-Reid/dp/0760346518

The escape attempt you are describing was a French officer that tried to escape from Colditz Castle. The author Pat Reid was a British Army officer.

u/invincible_spleen · 1 pointr/martialarts

A guy I know did his Master's thesis on Canadian use of the bayonet in WWI.
https://www.amazon.com/Bayonets-Blobsticks-Canadian-Experience-1915-1918/dp/0978465296

u/WeAreLegion1863 · 1 pointr/Military

It's the review of this book bro, it literally says it right there in the title...

You can read about the rape in England here(the page is reviewing a BOOK), and France here.

u/UrbanRedneck007 · 1 pointr/CanadianForces

For World War 1:

At the Sharp End By Tim Cook, well written and very interesting https://www.amazon.ca/Sharp-End-One-Canadians-1914-1916/dp/0670067342

(At the Sharp End is 1914-1916, and his second book Shock Troops is 1917-1918)

If you want an Afghanistan based novel read Wounded by Eric Walters, more of a teen novel (it's relatively short) but it's about a JTF2 sniper who comes home to his family and suffers from PTSD.

u/JREDOOM · 0 pointsr/todayilearned

Try learning about how the death camps after the war were worse than anything done during.

https://www.amazon.com/Other-Losses-Investigation-Prisoners-Americans/dp/0889226652


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RzFgopQA6A