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**NEW 2010 **

Most Excellent Citizens: Canada’s War Brides of World War II By Eswyn Lyster
Most Excellent Citizens: Canada’s War Brides of World War II By Eswyn Lyster
Edith's War by Andrew Smith
Edith's War by Andrew Smith
War Brides: The Stories of the women who left everything behind to follow the men they loved by Melynda Jarratt has been re-released by Dundurn Press in Canada.
War Brides: The Stories of the women who left everything behind to follow the men they loved by Melynda Jarratt has been re-released by Dundurn Press in Canada.
Captured Hearts: New Brunswick's War Brides
Captured Hearts: New Brunswick's War Brides
From Grief to Grace: My Story by G. Winnifred Kierstead. Available from the Author.
226 pages Contains more than one hundred original b&w archival photographs, documents and correspondence from private collections and the National Archives of Canada.
Voices of the Left Behind
Canada's War Grooms and the Girls who stole their hearts
War Grooms by Judy Kozar
Our Mornings May Never Be
Our Mornings May Never Be
The Last of the War Brides
Book of Kells: Growing up in an Ego Void
Book of Kells: Growing up in an Ego Void
Brass Buttons and Silver Horseshoes
Brass Buttons and Silver Horseshoes
Nurses in Battledress, The World War II story of a member of the Q. A. Reserves
Nurses in Battledress, The World War II story of a member of the Q. A. Reserves

Most Excellent Citizens: Canada's War Brides of World War II
by Eswyn Lyster
Published: April, 2010
Format: Perfect Bound Softcover(B/W)
Pages: 276
Size: 7x10
ISBN: 9781426902505

Eswyn Lyster's Most Excellent Citizens is available from Trafford Publishing.

Edith's War
by Andrew Smith
Format:Trade Paperback
Dimensions:380 Pages, 5.51 x 8.46 x 0.87 IN
Published:March 3, 2010
Publisher:Axiom Publishing Company
The following ISBNs are associated with this title:
ISBN - 10:0986496200
ISBN - 13:9780986496202

War Brides : The Stories of the Women Who Left Everything Behind to Follow the Men They Loved
by Melynda Jarratt
With a Preface by Hon. T.J. Burke, Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Province of New Brunswick
Table of contents, fully indexed, 5 maps, 16 pages of photographs, tables and recommended reading.
Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Dundurn Press (May 25 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1554883865
ISBN-13: 978-1554883868
Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.7 x 1.8 cm
Shipping Weight: 499 g

"War Brides" has been re-released by Dundurn Press in Canada and is now available at your local bookseller or on line at Dundurn.com, Amazon.ca, or Amazon.com

Captured Hearts: New Brunswick's War Brides
Melynda Jarratt (Author)
$16.95 Paperback
Published November 1, 2008 Goose Lane Editions & New Brunswick Military Heritage Project
ISBN-13: 9780864925190
ISBN-10: 0864925190
Paperback
height: 7.75 in
width: 5.5 in
148 pages
illustrated, index

Voices of the Left Behind: Project Roots and the Canadian War Children of World War Two
Olga and Lloyd Rains and Melynda Jarratt
Originally Published by Project Roots 2004
Translated into Dutch and reprinted by PICA
English version reprinted by Dundurn Press

From Grief to Grace: My Story
G. Winnifred Kierstead
Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
December 2009
Privately Published and available from the author
Contact for details

Canada’s War Grooms and the Girls who Stole their Hearts
Judy Kozar
ISBN #1897113692
ISBN #9781897113691
Printed by General Store Pulblishing House


A Book of Kells: Growing up in an Ego Void
By Margaret Kell Virany
Paperback: 200 pages
Publisher: Imprint Books 2002
* ISBN: 1591093724
www.amazon.ca
www.amazon.com
www.amazon.co.uk

Blackouts to Bright Lights: Canadian War Bride Stories
Editors Barbara Ladouceur and Phyllis Spence
Printed by Ronsdale Press, Vancouver
1995 - 299 pages
ISBN 0-921870-33-7

Brass Buttons and Silver Horseshoes
Stories from Canada's British War Brides
By Linda Granfield
Published by McClelland and Stewart Ltd.
2002- 144 pg.
ISBN: 0771035357

From Romance to Reality: Stories of Canadian War Brides
Peggy O'Hara
Published by Highway Book Shop, Cobalt, Ontario
Reprinted 1985 - 312 pages

If Kisses Were Roses: A 50th Anniversary Tribute to War Brides
Helen Hall Shewchuk
Printed by Journal Printers, Sudbury, Ontario
1995 - 231 pages
ISBN 0-9680907-0-2

Nurses in Battledress, The World War II story of a member of the Q. A. Reserves
Gwladys M Rees Aikens
160 pp., paperback
ISBN 1-55109-313-8

OUR MORNINGS MAY NEVER BE
Memoirs by a WAAF Sergeant...and Beyond

By Joan MacDonald
ISBN#1-894263-73-1
ISBN#9781894263733
General Store Publishing


Our Sentimental Journey
Saskatchewan War Brides
2005
Available from the Saskatchewan War Brides Association
(Read what was said in the Saskatchewan Legislature on November 10, 2005 about this book!)


Promise You'll Take Care of My Daughter
Ben Wicks with a foreward by Pierre Berton
Printed by Stoddart Publishing, Toronto, Ontario
1992 - 229 pages
ISBN 0-7737-2570-9 (bound) 0-7737-5565-9 (paperback)

The Last of the War Brides
by Jacqueline O'Neill Dahm

267 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover);
catalogue #04-2532;
ISBN 1-4120-4724-2
Available through Trafford Publishing

The Occupied Garden : Recovering the Story of a Family in the War-torn Netherlands
By Kristen den Hartog & Tracy Kasaboski
Format:Hardcover
Dimensions:328 Pages, 5.8 x 8.3 x 1.1 in
Published:March 18, 2008
Publisher:McClelland & Stewart
ISBN - 10:0771026226
ISBN - 13:9780771026225

The War Brides
Edited by Joyce Hibbert with an introduction by Mavis Gallant
First published by PMA Books, reprinted by Signet
1980 - 138 pages

The War Brides of New Brunswick
Melynda Jarratt, Masters Thesis
University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB
1995 - 94 pages and appendices

We Became Canadians
Olga Rains, illustrations by Lloyd Rains
Overnight Copy Service, Hyde Park, Ontario
1984 - 148 pages

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