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Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond

Michael Ignatieff requires little introduction to booksellers and librarians. He is the award-winning author of several non-fiction books including The Russian Album, which won the Governor General’s Award. This is the expatriate Canadian’s third book ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

The Holocaust’s Ghost: Writings on Art, Politics, Law and Education

By F.C. DeCoste and Bernard Schwartz,eds.

The Holocaust’s Ghost grew out of a conference held at the University of Alberta in 1997. DeCoste and Schwartz have brought together scholars from the fields of history, art, English, Judaic studies, law, music, political ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: History

Sale of the Century: Russia’s Wild Ride from Communism to Capitalism

By Chrystia Freeland

I was only in Russia once, Moscow mostly, and for just a week, which means I can’t claim to have any kind of a command of the place. This was in the summer of 1997, ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

Fighting for Canada: Seven Battles, 1758-1945

By Donald E. Graves, ed.

Not so long ago John Lennon was earnestly urging us to give peace a chance. This book – which covers seven important battles in Canada’s military history – has an equally earnest but opposite message. ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: History

Swissair Down: Investigating the Crash of Flight 111

By Don Ledger

By now, most people have absorbed the popular wisdom that when a butterfly flaps its wings on the other side of the world, such minuscule turbulence can initiate a chain of unforeseen effects, resulting in ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: History

There It Is: A Canadian in the Vietnam War

By Les D. Brown

No one knows for sure how many Canadians fought within the American forces in the Vietnam conflict; estimates range from 5,000 to 40,000. Some, of course, travelled south to volunteer. But one Canadian, Les Brown, ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: History

Things That Must Not Be Forgotten: A Childhood in Wartime China

By Michael David Kwan

Despite its unprepossessing title, Vancouverite Michael David Kwan’s memoir, spanning the mid-1930s to the late ’40s, is an engrossing book. The son of a young Swiss woman (who quickly disappears from his life) and a ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

Eminent Canadians: Candid Tales of Then and Now

By John Fraser

A decade ago, I suggested to my agent that I should do a book called “Eminent Canadians,” a Lytton Strachey-like job on the rich and powerful. Deflate the pompous and savage the powerful, in other ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

Frederick Street: Living and Dying on Canada’s Love Canal

By Maude Barlow and Elizabeth May

Elizabeth May, head of the Sierra Club of Canada, and Maude Barlow, chair of the citizen’s lobby group The Council of Canadians, have written an informative and sometimes shocking account of government bungling in regulating, ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

The Perfect Heresy: The Revolutionary Life and Spectacular Death of the Medieval Cathars

By Stephen O’Shea

Making a modern reader care about a 13th-century heretical sect and its destruction is not an easy task, but journalist and translator Stephen O’Shea manages it effortlessly in his new book.The Cathars rose to prominence ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: History

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Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond

The Holocaust’s Ghost: Writings on Art, Politics, Law and Education

Sale of the Century: Russia’s Wild Ride from Communism to Capitalism

Fighting for Canada: Seven Battles, 1758-1945

Swissair Down: Investigating the Crash of Flight 111

There It Is: A Canadian in the Vietnam War

Things That Must Not Be Forgotten: A Childhood in Wartime China

Eminent Canadians: Candid Tales of Then and Now

Frederick Street: Living and Dying on Canada’s Love Canal

The Perfect Heresy: The Revolutionary Life and Spectacular Death of the Medieval Cathars

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