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Remembering the End of the Second World War: 80th Anniversary

In 2025, the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War will be commemorated in Canada and internationally. Victory in Europe Day (V-E Day) was declared on May 8, 1945, following the Liberation of the Netherlands and the surrender of the German forces across Europe. Japanese forces surrendered on August 14, 1945, marking the unofficial end of the Second World War until the formal surrender documents were signed on September 2, 1945. Learn more about the final days of the war and pivotal role Canada played with these titles.

Halifax Public Libraries

31 items

  • Tony Robinson's VE Day

    Minute by Minute

    DVDHolland, Ohio : Dreamscape Media, [2023]. — DVD 940.534 T667 Doc
  • Liberation

    the Canadians in Europe

    McAndrew, Bill, 1934-
    BookMontréal : Editions Art Global, 1995. — 940.5371 M114L
  • The Best Little Army in the World

    the Canadians in Northwest Europe, 1944-1945

    Granatstein, J. L.
    BookToronto, Ontario : Patrick Crean Editions, an imprint of HarperCollins Canada, c2015. — 940.541271 G748b
  • The Good Allies

    How Canada and the United States Fought Together to Defeat Fascism During the Second World War

    Cook, Tim, 1971-
    Book[Toronto, Ont.] : Allen Lane, 2024. — 940.541271 C771g
  • On to Victory

    The Canadian Liberation of the Netherlands, March 23—May 5, 1945

    Zuehlke, Mark
    eBookDouglas and McIntyre (2013) Ltd., 2010
  • The Fight for History

    75 Years of Forgetting, Remembering, and Remaking Canada's Second World War

    Cook, Tim, 1971-
    BookToronto : Allen Lane, 2020. — 940.5371 C771f
  • War at Sea

    Canada and the Battle of the Atlantic

    Smith, Ken, 1949 September 16-,
    BookHalifax, Nova Scotia : Nimbus Publishing, 2015. — 940.54 S653w
  • BookToronto, Ont. : Patrick Crean Editions, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2022. — 940.545971 B276b
  • Remembrance Road

    a Canadian Photographer's Journey Through European Battlefields

    MacDonald, Justine, 1978-
    BookHalifax, N.S. : SSP Publications, 2018. — 914.045612 M135r
  • The Road to Victory

    a Dramatized Documentary of World War II Originally Broadcast May 8th, 1945

    Audiobook CDToronto, Ont. : Scenario Productions, p2003, c1945. — COMPACT DISC 940.5309 R628
  • Stout Hearts

    the British and Canadians in Normandy 1944

    Kite, Ben, 1970-
    BookSolihull, West Midlands : Helion & Company, 2016. — 940.5421 K62s
  • Our Finest Hour

    Canada Fights the Second World War

    Bercuson, David Jay
    BookToronto, Ont. : HarperCollins, 2015. — 940.5371 B486o
  • Kingdom of Night

    Witnesses to the Holocaust

    Celinscak, Mark, 1978-
    BookToronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2022. — 940.531853 C392k
  • The Guns at Last Light

    the War in Western Europe, 1944-1945

    Atkinson, Rick
    BookNew York : Henry Holt and Co., c2013. — 940.5421 A877g