History

★ The Sleeping Buddha: Portraits of a Changing Afghanistan

In 2003, journalist Hamida Ghafour was asked by London’s Daily Telegraph to go to Afghanistan – the country from which her family had fled 21 years earlier, when she was four – to report on ... Read More »

April 16, 2007 | Filed under: History

Web of Deceit: The History of Western Complicity in Iraq from Churchill to Kennedy to George W. Bush

By Barry M. Lando

In the final days of 1920, after a series of bloody Arab uprisings against the British occupiers of Mesopotamia (soon to be renamed Iraq), a frustrated Winston Churchill, then secretary of state for the colonies, ... Read More »

April 5, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

Witch Hunts: From Salem to Guantanamo Bay

By Robert Rapley

The idea of providing historical precedents for contemporary civil liberties violations is certainly not unique, but there are few titles that possess the rigorous scholarship and analysis required for such an undertaking.While retired civil servant ... Read More »

March 28, 2007 | Filed under: History

Too Far from Home

By Chris Jones

Once you get over the unalloyed miracle that is space flight, the days of astronauts are in some ways as pedestrian as those of their earthbound compatriots, consisting largely of sleeping, eating, talking, bodily functions, ... Read More »

March 27, 2007 | Filed under: History

★ Three Nights in Havana: Pierre Trudeau, Fidel Castro and the Cold War World

By Robert Wright

It is either a coincidence or a quirk of the zeitgeist that two of the best recent books of popular history deal with issues of diplomacy between the West and the communist world in the ... Read More »

January 2, 2007 | Filed under: History

★ Nixon in China: The Week That Changed the World

By Margaret MacMillan

“May the day of judging President Nixon on anything less than his entire life and career come to a close.” This was the gist of Bill Clinton’s generous (and politically savvy) eulogy at the 1994 ... Read More »

December 19, 2006 | Filed under: History

The Wolves at Evelyn: Journeys Through a Dark Century

By Harold Rhenisch

The Wolves at Evelyn is a hybrid of creative non-fiction, autobiography, historical narrative, and philosophical treatise. As such, it focuses on the experience of immigrant families travelling to B.C., while providing a context for their ... Read More »

December 19, 2006 | Filed under: History

For Honour’s Sake: The War of 1812 and the Brokering of an Uneasy Peace

By Mark Zuehlke

For Honour’s Sake is a rollicking and thoroughly enjoyable survey of the War of 1812. From casus belli to peace treaty, Mark Zuehlke brings his prodigious writing talent to the history of a war that ... Read More »

December 15, 2006 | Filed under: History

Horse: How the Horse Shaped Civilizations

By J. Edward Chamberlain

Nearly 100 pages into Horse, author J. Edward Chamberlain finally gets around to making a thesis-like statement – that horses have fascinated mankind because they straddle a line between barbarism and civilization.Though it is buried ... Read More »

November 6, 2006 | Filed under: History

Riding to the Rescue: The Transformation of the RCMP in Alberta and Saskatchewan, 1914–1939

By Steve Hewitt

The idea of a Machiavellian police force, desperate to maintain its survival by searching out state enemies often exaggerated or even imagined, does not square with most images of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Yet ... Read More »

November 6, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

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