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Country Roads: Memoirs from Rural Canada

Work. That’s the inescapable focus of Country Roads, a collection of 34 memoirs by Canadians with a farm past – and a few who still live on farms. However, this kind of labour is seen ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: History

Restitution: A Family’s Fight for Their Heritage Lost in the Holocaust

By Kathy Kacer

With her first book for adults, prolific children’s author Kathy Kacer has chosen a very compelling story. Restitution is about Karl Reeser, a member of a prominent Jewish family who had to flee Czechoslovakia in ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: History

On to Victory: The Canadian Liberation of the Netherlands, March 23–May 5, 1945

By Mark Zuehlke

Academic military historians tend to write for other military historians, and the history of the Canadian army in the Second World War is no exception. Historians have proffered their theses on the subject without addressing ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: History

Letters from the Lost: A Memoir of Discovery

By Helen Waldstein Wilkes

We all know the appalling statistic: six million Jewish people killed in the Holocaust. But how do we make this staggering figure resonate on a personal level? Helen Waldstein Wilkes knew the number, but until ... Read More »

April 30, 2010 | Filed under: History

A Place Within: Rediscovering India

By M.G. Vassanji

How often does a reader have the chance to glimpse a writer’s mind at work? M.G. Vassanji allows just that and more in A Place Within, an intensely personal meditation on history and identity that ... Read More »

February 16, 2010 | Filed under: History

The Ice Passage: A True Story of Ambition, Disaster, and Endurance in the Arctic Wilderness

By Brian Payton

For whatever reason, the 19th-century exploration, predominantly by British crews and ships, of what would become the Canadian Arctic is a big part of this country’s national mythology and cultural consciousness. The official goals of ... Read More »

December 17, 2009 | Filed under: History

Egg on Mao: The Story of an Ordinary Man Who Defaced an Icon and Unmasked a Dictatorship

By Denise Chong

In the West, there is one iconic image that encapsulates the 1989 pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square: a lone man standing in front of a column of tanks. Equally arresting, but less well known, was ... Read More »

December 17, 2009 | Filed under: History

Blood and Capital: The Paramilitarization of Colombia

By Jasmin Hristov

During a controversial July 2007 trip to Colombia, Prime Minister Stephen Harper bluntly stated that human rights concerns could not get in the way of trade relations with that country. Since last year’s Canada-Colombia Free ... Read More »

July 3, 2009 | Filed under: History

What the Thunder Said: Reflections of a Canadian Officer in Kandahar

By Lt.-Col. John Conrad

What the Thunder Said, Lt.-Col. John Conrad’s account of his six-month tour in Kandahar, introduces us to new perspectives on the Canadian experience in Afghanistan, and contains the foundations of a better understanding of that ... Read More »

July 3, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

True Patriot Love: Four Generations in Search of Canada

By Michael Ignatieff

In the author’s note that introduces True Patriot Love, writer, public intellectual, and current Leader of the Official Opposition Michael Ignatieff claims that the man who began writing this book in 2000 is essentially the ... Read More »

July 3, 2009 | Filed under: History

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Country Roads: Memoirs from Rural Canada

Restitution: A Family’s Fight for Their Heritage Lost in the Holocaust

On to Victory: The Canadian Liberation of the Netherlands, March 23–May 5, 1945

Letters from the Lost: A Memoir of Discovery

A Place Within: Rediscovering India

The Ice Passage: A True Story of Ambition, Disaster, and Endurance in the Arctic Wilderness

Egg on Mao: The Story of an Ordinary Man Who Defaced an Icon and Unmasked a Dictatorship

Blood and Capital: The Paramilitarization of Colombia

What the Thunder Said: Reflections of a Canadian Officer in Kandahar

True Patriot Love: Four Generations in Search of Canada

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