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All the Ship''s Men: HMCS Athabaskan''s Untold Stories" is a collection of personal stories of sailors on-board Canada''s Tribal Class Destroyer, HMCS Athabaskan when it was sunk by enemy fire mere days before the Normandy Invasion. This revised edition includes seventeen new tales.

Confronting the barriers and stigma around PTSD and navigating the recovery process can be an enormous challenge for many veterans. I salute Sgt Grant's authentic account of his recovery story through his cross Canada motorcycle journey to offer hope and meaning to others in similar circumstances. I will forever be grateful to veterans like Sgt Grant for who paid the ultimate price with their service and have returned to make a difference. I wouldn't be where I am today without the veterans who created the Paralympic sport movement. As a young kid, their courage inspired me to believe that I could achieve my potential as an athlete and go on my Man In Motion World Tour. Whether it's overcoming a visible or invisible barrier, as a nation, we have a responsibility to honour and support our veterans on their respective missions of recovery. Rick Hansen, Founder & CEO, Rick Hansen Foundation"Riding down the road when you are in your Zen space, you digest parts of your memories a little bit at time…. Healing doesn't happen overnight, nor do the memories of the trauma ever disappear completely, but you can learn to live with the experience." After a diagnosis of PTSD, Kurt Grant has to leave his military career behind. In an attempt to find healing and peace, he takes a cross-country trip on his motorcycle, hoping that long stretches of road and some fly-fishing interludes will sort out the chaos in his mind. But as he travels, he finds far more-pieces of his past, understanding of the country he calls home, the joys of small prairie towns, and some spectacular fishing spots. More than that, he finds profound truth about what it truly means to heal from a wound that nobody can see.

In the evening dusk of August 22, 1944, during an intense battle off the Norwegian coast, the HMS Nabob, one of the two Canadian-crewed aircraft carriers in the Second World War was struck by a torpedo on the starboard side. Among the souls on board was Dr. Charles Read Jr., a young flight surgeon who needed to draw upon every bit of his training and skills to fight against seemingly impossible odds to save the lives of his shipmates. These are his memoires.Follow Dr. Read from his first, fresh-faced moments in Halifax as a newly minted Navy Medical Officer to a surprise appointment to be the flight surgeon on the much-lauded Nabob, the aircraft carrier thought of as the sign that Canada's navy had arrived in the big leagues of world sea power. In vivid detail, Read recounts his training (including a hair-raising ride in a fighter jet), his friendships (from Chizy, the affable wine steward, to the legendary fighter pilot Bobby Bradshaw), to his wonder at the beauty of Europe (even in the midst of wartime destruction) to his memorable encounters with those he met along the way (including two beautiful movie stars).Read presents war as he saw it, the gut-wrenching carnage, the endless monotony, the baffling absurdity, and, shamefully, the inevitable tragedies that happen under incompetent command.These memoires present an exciting and never-before-seen view into a ship that has, until this book, been little more than a footnote in history.