Lodz, Poland, 1944. Teenaged Henia Rosenfarb sat with her family in a small, secret room, hiding from Nazi soldiers who were looking for them. Little could the fiery redhead have imagined that her path would take her from wartime Poland to faraway Canada.

A young boy who loved soccer as much as he loved to write, John Freund found his joyful childhood shattered by the German invasion of Czechoslovakia. John's family suffered through the systematic erosion of their rights only to be deported to Theresienstadt — en route to the Auschwitz death camp.

Montréal, 1954. Les rues fourmillent d'enfants qui sautent à la corde, de garçons qui se bousculent, jouant au hockey en se prenant pour Maurice Richard. Sous un arbre du quartier, qui a fait son chemin entre les dalles de béton, Laura Lacaille et son amie Francine Gariépy discutent vivement. Les deux jeunes filles de onze ans ont déjà des idées bien arrêtées sur la vie. Mais aujourd'hui, le sujet de leur conversation animée est cet oncle...

Under the Yellow & Red Stars is a remarkable story of survival, coming of age and homecoming after years as a stranger in a strange land. Alex Levin was only ten years old when he ran deep into the forest after the Germans invaded his hometown of Rokitno and only twelve when he emerged from hiding to find that he had neither parents nor a community to return to. A harrowing tale of escape, endurance and exceptional emotional resilience, Levin's story...

William Tannenzapf never wavered in his determination to survive and save his wife and baby girl from the evil that gripped his home town of Stanislawów. Blond, cherubic, Renate Krakauer was a "miracle baby" born as the world descended into war and soon surrounded by misery and death. Starved and enslaved, Tannenzapf entrusted his daughter to a Polish family so that little Renate could live in "childhood oblivion" — yet still under the eyes of...

Written in his mother's unique voice, John Leigh Walters pushes the boundaries of memoir in A Very Capable Life, the extraordinary journey of a seemingly ordinary woman. Zarah Petri was a child when her family left Hungary to establish a new life in Canada in the 1920s. With courage and innovation, Zarah and her family survived the Depression, even if it meant breaking the law to do so. In celebrating Zarah Petri, A Very Capable Life pays homage to...

This ebook is purpose built and is proof-read and re-type set from the original to provide an outstanding experience of reflowing text for an ebook reader. Amongst the many memoirs of the Napoleonic period, there are a number that stand out not just for their historical value, but also for their actual written style, however in this sense Lejeune stands alone. Lejeune was by nature an artist and is still a famous as a noted painter of scenes of battles,...

In Alfred Hudons forty-five years of working as a private investigator, he has dealt with many problems and issuescrooked cops, fraudulent acts, and particularly workplace theft. He now shares his experiences in Memoirs of a Magman: P. I. and Crooked Cops. In addition to telling the story of his interesting and varied life, he provides professional knowledge that will aid others in dealing with the business and personal problems that people encounter...

This ebook is purpose built and is proof-read and re-type set from the original to provide an outstanding experience of reflowing text for an ebook reader. Perhaps the most famous of all Napoleonic memoirs to be written in any language are those written by Marbot. They stand in a league of their own. Napoleon, himself left a donation of 100,000 to him, for his refutation of General Rogniat's work - to quote Napoleon's will "I recommend him to continue...