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Poignant Remembrance Day Reads

Remembrance Day is an important time to reflect on the past and remember the sacrifices made in an effort to bring about peace. This list highlights some of the new books at Halifax Public Libraries. Lest we forget.

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  • Allies at War

    How the Struggles Between the Allied Powers Shaped the War and the World

    Bouverie, Tim, 1987-
    Book, 2025New York : Crown, 2025. — 940.54012 B782a
  • The Art Spy

    the Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland

    Young, Michelle (Michelle T.)
    Book, 2025New York : HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2025. — 940.548644 Y74a
  • Cassino '44

    the Brutal Battle for Rome

    Holland, James, 1970-
    Book, 2024New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2024. — 940.54215 H735c
  • Challenging Exile

    Japanese Canadians and the Wartime Constitution

    Adams, Eric M.
    Book, 2025Vancouver, B.C. : UBC Press, 2025. — 342.710873 A211c
  • Book, 2025Toronto : Simon & Schuster Canada, 2025. — 940.5318092 S176d
  • Holocaust Hero

    the Life & Times of Rudolf Vrba

    Twigg, Alan, 1952-
    Book, 2025Richmond Hill, Ont. : Firefly Books, 2025. — 940.5318092 V978t
  • How Good It Is I Have No Fear of Dying

    Lieutenant Yulia Mykytenko's Fight for Ukraine

    Marlowe, Lara
    Book, 2024Brooklyn, New York : Melville House, 2024. — 947.7062092 M349h
  • The Killing Season

    the Autumn of 1914, Ypres, and the Afternoon That Cost Germany a War

    Cowley, Robert
    Book, 2025New York : Random House, 2025. — 940.421 C875k
  • Book, 2025Oxford : Osprey Publishing, 2025. — 951.9042 D188k
  • Monopoly X

    How a Top-secret World War II Operations Used the Game of Monopoly to Help Allied POWs Escape, Conceal Spies, and Send Secret Codes

    Orbanes, Philip
    Book, 2025New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2025. — 940.547243 O64m
  • The Nazi Mind

    Twelve Warnings From History

    Rees, Laurence, 1957-
    Book, 2025New York : PublicAffairs, 2025. — 943.086 R328n
  • No Place Like Home

    Enemy Alien Internment in Canada During the Great War

    Kordan, Bohdan S.
    Book, 2025Montréal ; Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2025. — 940.47271 K84n
  • The Paris Girl

    the Young Woman Who Outwitted the Nazis and Became a WWII Hero

    White, Francelle Bradford
    Book, 2025New York : Citadel Press/Kensington Publishing Corp., 2025. — 940.5344 G868w