In contrast to the flood of titles released in 2004 to mark the 60th anniversary of D-Day, in this year of the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, the flood has ... Read More »
July 8, 2005 | Filed under: History
Most of the surviving veterans of the Second World War are now in their eighties, making Aces, Warriors and Wingmen a timely and fitting tribute to one group of Canadians who sacrificed so much in ... Read More »
July 7, 2005 | Filed under: History
For the Churchillophile who has everything comes British historian David Dilks’s The Great Dominion. Between 1900 and 1954 the great imperialist and war leader visited Canada nine times (eight, if one excludes a visit to ... Read More »
June 9, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History
In her new book, Maggie Siggins, author of the Governor General’s Award-winning Revenge of the Land, sets out to reveal the human face behind native issues by writing a history of the Pelican Narrows Cree ... Read More »
June 9, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History
aDncing in the No-Fly Zone, the first book by Vancouver journalist Hadani Ditmars, looks back from her last visit to Iraq in 2003 to her five previous visits beginning in November 1997. As a Lebanese-Canadian ... Read More »
June 9, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History
Much is made of the special and enduring friendship between the Dutch and Canadians that began with the triumphant arrival of liberation forces in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands in May 1945. The arrival of Canadian soldiers ... Read More »
May 16, 2005 | Filed under: History
Patricia Roy and John Herd Thompson’s book on B.C. closes with, “All you have to do is wake up in B.C. to realize how lucky you are.” This is just as well because, as the ... Read More »
May 11, 2005 | Filed under: History
If Canada came of age during the First World War, then the Second World War brought the country to robust adulthood. In his illustrated history of Canada’s contribution to the Second World War, historian J.L. ... Read More »
May 11, 2005 | Filed under: History
“Give me your tired, your poor/Your huddled masses…/Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,/I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” Anyone who has come within sight of the Statue of Liberty cannot but be ... Read More »
April 4, 2005 | Filed under: History
Empires at War does not fit in the modern trend toward creative non-fiction history books. William Fowler, the American author of numerous books on 18th- and 19th-century U.S. naval history, writes solidly within the realm ... Read More »
March 22, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History
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