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Cinderella Army: The Canadians in Northwest Europe 1944–1945

First Canadian Army, known as the Cinderella Army, was the smallest of the Allied armies that fought the final nine months of the Second World War in Northwest Europe. The moniker derives from its role ... Read More »

October 3, 2006 | Filed under: History

Fertility Goddesses, Groundhog Bellies & the Coca Cola Company: The Origins of Modern Holidays

By Gabriella Kalapos

Most of us don’t have the time or the inclination to learn the historical roots of our holidays. A day off from the modern, cubicle-infested workplace is its own explanation and justification. Gabriella Kalapos has ... Read More »

July 17, 2006 | Filed under: History

★ The Master Plan: Himmler’s Scholars and the Holocaust

By Heather Pringle

The Nazi Holocaust remains the nadir of human activity on this planet, a Dead Sea of unthinking bestiality and unmitigated evil. Why is it unlike all the other monstrous flowerings of evil that ought to ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: History

Return to Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village in the 21st Century

By Craig Taylor

The cult of pastoral life has long been part of the English identity. Ronald Blythe’s 1969 book Akenfield – a kind of lyrical ethnography of a Suffolk village, told in the voices of the villagers ... Read More »

May 30, 2006 | Filed under: History

The Bloody Red Hand: A Journey Through Truth, Myth and Terror in Northern Ireland

By Derek Lundy

It’s not surprising that Derek Lundy chose to start his new book with a scene set at sea – the Salt Spring Island writer has done well with his previous, nautically themed books. The opening ... Read More »

May 1, 2006 | Filed under: History

A Race for Real Sailors: The Bluenose and the International Fishermen’s Cup, 1920-1938

By Keith McLaren

Is there anyone in Canada who doesn’t know that the Bluenose schooner is on the back of the Canadian dime? If there is, B.C. author Keith McLaren tells them this fat three or four times ... Read More »

March 6, 2006 | Filed under: History

Bodies and Souls: The Tragic Plight of Three Jewish Women Forced into Prostitution in the Americas

By Isabel Vincent

In Bodies and Souls, seasoned investigative journalist Isabel Vincent turns her attention to an apparently forgotten yet utterly notorious episode in history: the Jewish slave trade that forced thousands of young women out of Eastern ... Read More »

January 12, 2006 | Filed under: History

How the Cold War Began: The Gouzenko Affair and the Hunt for Soviet Spies

By Amy Knight

For those who persist in thinking that it was only the U.S. government of the 1950s that was hysterical and paranoid and abused the civil rights of its citizens in pursuit of communists, Amy Knight’s ... Read More »

January 11, 2006 | Filed under: History

Building Canada: People and Projects That Shaped the Nation

By Jonathan Vance

If it is true, as Mackenzie King once said, that while some countries have too much history Canada has too much geography, then this book from University of Western Ontario history professor Jonathan Vance is ... Read More »

January 9, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

Santa Claus: A Biography

By Gerry Bowler

This Christmas, Santa won’t bring every child a pony or an MP3 player. But let the disappointed take comfort: at least he no longer brings vinegar-soaked birch rods to the unlucky or badly behaved. Gerry ... Read More »

November 21, 2005 | Filed under: History