Books with title Killing for Country

“Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.” --Bertrand Russell Young Zammie and Kyla have been given the magical gift of time travel, and they soon find the past is not always a pretty place. In the midst of great chaos decisions need to be made. Fight or flee? Help or hide? Violence or peace? Sent on an epic journey across three continents during three critical moments in history, Zammie and Kyla will live through the harrowing experience of the A-bomb on Hiroshima and participate in the Battle of Gettysburg. Before returning home, they will experience the cold and frightening night of Kristallnacht in Nazi-run Germany. Killing for Country is a heart-wrenching and dramatic exercise of historical fiction sure to leave even the most knowledgeable reader both breathless and better informed.

At seventeen,, Will Westley lies about his age to try to enlist to fight in the First World War. He is determined to make his late father proud and take care of his mother. After several unsuccessful attempts — he is rejected for his color, not his age — Will is finally accepted. He is eager and proud to join the #2 Black Battalion — Canada's first and only all-Black military regiment. But not everyone is pleased. Soon after becoming a soldier, Will experiences racism and discrimination by superiors and even some fellow soldiers, who refuse to fight alongside Black Canadians. This book offers a true-to-life fictional account of the experiences of Black Canadians whose efforts to join up finally resulted in them being shuffled off into a segregated unit, the #2 Construction Battalion, whose assignment during the war did not include fighting. Insteady, the Battalion performed manual labour even when soldiers were ready and willing to endure the horrors of frontline fighting in the trenches.