Battlefront Newfoundland : Britain's oldest colony at war, 1939-1945 / Jack Fitzgerald.
Battlefront Newfoundland : Britain's oldest colony at war, 1939-1945 / Jack Fitzgerald.
By
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Fitzgerald, Jack, 1945-
Publication Date
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2010
Publication Information
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St. John's, N.L. : Creative Pub.,
Physical Description
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300 p. : ill.
Subject Term
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Newfoundland and Labrador.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Atlantic Ocean.
Geographic Term
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Newfoundland and Labrador -- History -- 1934-1949.
Bibliography Note
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-300).
Summary
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Newfoundlanders initially viewed World War II as a foreign conflict and believed that the violence in Europe could not spread to these shores. That complacency was shaken on March 3, 1942, when U-587 fired torpedoes at St. John's during the first German attack on North American soil. In the months that followed, U-boats destroyed ships at Lance Cove and Wabana on Bell Island. And in a fatal surface attack on the Newfoundland ferry Caribou, German submarines sent it to the bottom of the Atlantic with the loss of 137 lives. Battlefront Newfoundland records and preserves the provocative history of Newfoundland and its people during these dramatic years of WWII.
Language
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English
ISBN
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9781897174630
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Arnold's Cove | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Baie Verte | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Bay Roberts | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Bay St. George South | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Bell Island | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Bishop's Falls | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Bonavista | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Botwood | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Brigus | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Buchans | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Burgeo | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Burin | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Cape St. George | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Carbonear | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Carmanville | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Cartwright | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Centreville | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Change Islands | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Codroy Valley | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Conception Bay South | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Cormack | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Corner Brook | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Cow Head | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Daniel's Harbour | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Deer Lake | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Fogo Island | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Fortune | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Fox Harbour | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Gambo | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Gander | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Garnish | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Gaultois | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Glenwood | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Glovertown | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Grand Bank | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Grand Falls-Windsor - Harmsworth | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Greenspond | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Harbour Breton | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Harbour Grace | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Hare Bay | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Harry's Harbour | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Hermitage | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Holyrood | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
L'Anse Au Loup | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Labrador City | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Lark Harbour | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Lourdes | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Lumsden | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Marystown | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Mount Pearl - Ross King Memorial Public Library | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Musgrave Harbour - John B. Wheeler Public Library | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
New-Wes-Valley | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Norris Arm | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Norris Point | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Old Perlican | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Pasadena | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Placentia | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Point Leamington | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Port au Port | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Port aux Basques | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Port Saunders | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Pouch Cove | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Ramea | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Rocky Harbour | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Seal Cove | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Sop's Arm | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Springdale | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
St. Alban's | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
St. Anthony | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
St. Brides's | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter | ADULT NFIC NL - BASEMENT OVERFLOW | Adult Non-Fiction NL - Basement Overflow | 940.53718 F57 |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter | Adult NFic NL Ref - NL Rm | Adult Non-Fiction NL Reference - NL Room | 940.53718 F57 |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter | Adult NFic NL Ref - Prov Coll | Adult Non-Fiction NL Reference Provincial Collection | 940.53718 F57 |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter | Adult NFic NL Ref - Vault | Adult Non-Fiction NL Reference - Vault | 940.53718 F57 |
St. John's - Marjorie Mews | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
St. John's - Michael Donovan | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
St. Lawrence | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Stephenville - Kindale | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Stephenville Crossing | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Summerford | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Torbay | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Trinity Bay North | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Twillingate | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Victoria | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Wabush | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Whitbourne | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Winterton | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |
Woody Point | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 940.53718 F57 |