History

Khubilai Khan’s Lost Fleet: In Search of a Legendary Armada

In 1274 and 1281, having subjugated China, the Mongols launched massive seaborne attacks on the Japanese islands. Both attempts failed, in part because of sudden storms that wrecked the fleets. Although the storms were probably ... Read More »

September 29, 2008 | Filed under: History

Soldiers Made Me Look Good: A Life in the Shadow of War

By Lewis MacKenzie

Following some 15 years on the heels of his bestselling Peacekeeper: The Road to Sarajevo comes Major-General (retired) Lewis MacKenzie’s newest book, Soldiers Made Me Look Good. The earlier book chronicled MacKenzie’s military career, culminating ... Read More »

September 29, 2008 | Filed under: History

Race to the Polar Sea: The Heroic Adventures of Elisha Kent Kane

By Ken McGoogan

With the imminent opening of the Northwest Passage due to climate change, information about Canada’s North is becoming more and more valuable. Enter the journals, sketches, and published books of American explorer Elisha Kent Kane, ... Read More »

September 29, 2008 | Filed under: History

Madness, Betrayal and the Lash: The Epic Voyage of Captain George Vancouver

By Stephen R. Bown

The story of George Vancouver – gifted navigator, lifelong mariner, and bewildered captain – is told here in Stephen Bown’s sympathetic popular history about the man who mapped more than 1,700 miles of Pacific coastline ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: History

The Soviet Ambassador: The Making of the Radical Behind Perestroika

By Christopher Shulgan

Toronto journalist Christopher Shulgan’s The Soviet Ambassador is a compelling and detailed account of the life and ideological development of Alexander Yakovlev, the man thought to be a key figure in shaping Mikhail Gorbachev’s policy ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: History

The Truth About Canada: Some Important, Some Astonishing, and Some Truly Appalling Things All Canadians Should Know About Their Country

By Mel Hurtig

With very good reason, many Canadians have been heavily critical of the U.S. and, in particular, its hapless president over the last seven years. After reading Mel Hurtig’s new book, The Truth About Canada, Canadians ... Read More »

August 28, 2008 | Filed under: History

The Secret Lives of Saints: Child Brides and Lost Boys in a Polygamous Mormon Sect

By Daphne Bramham

B.C.’s secluded sect of polygamists is a sore spot that many a lawmaker has poked at over the years. But as Daphne Bramham shows in The Secret Lives of Saints, none have succeeded in healing ... Read More »

August 28, 2008 | Filed under: History

Looking for Anne: How Lucy Maud Montgomery Dreamed Up a Literary Classic

By Irene Gammel

Everything seems to be coming up Anne Shirley in this, the centenary of the first publication of Anne of Green Gables. Rather than simply rehashing available material, Ryerson professor and noted literary researcher Irene Gammel ... Read More »

August 28, 2008 | Filed under: History

Renegades: Canadians in the Spanish Civil War

By Michael Petrou

When General Franco rebelled against the Spanish government in 1936, more than 1,700 Canadians volunteered to fight in that country’s civil war. Very little was known about the volunteers, many of whom, due to the ... Read More »

July 31, 2008 | Filed under: History

★ Terrible Victory: First Canadian Army and the Scheldt Estuary Campaign, September 13 – November 6, 1944

By Mark Zuehlke

Best known for his meticulously detailed accounts of Canadian Second World War battles in Normandy and Italy, historian Mark Zuehlke has brought to life a woefully under-recorded chapter in Canadian history in the excellent Terrible ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

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