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It Made You Think of Home: The Haunting Journals of Deward Barnes, CEF: 1916-1919

The Western Front of the First World War consumed individuality as thoroughly as it consumed individuals. As Canadians, our folk-memory of the war is of the quick and the dead indistinguishable from the mud. In ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: History

Hope in Hell: Inside the World of Doctors Without Borders

By Dan Bortolotti

It would be difficult to write a dull book about Doctors Without Borders, the renowned international medical relief organization that won the 1999 Nobel Prize for Peace. Hope in Hell doesn’t disappoint, providing many a ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: History

An Unauthorized Biography of the World: Oral History on the Front Lines

By Michael Riordon

An Unauthorized Biography of the World is a chronicle of that long, varied front line of communities using oral history to fight against marginalization and oppression, to give themselves a voice in the face of ... Read More »

December 21, 2004 | Filed under: History

The Battle of the St. Lawrence: The Second World War in Canada

By Nathan M. Greenfield

The Second World War Battle of the St. Lawrence between German U-boats and a primarily Canadian air force and navy has been not so much forgotten as ignored. The 24 ships sunk in the quarter-million-square-mile ... Read More »

December 21, 2004 | Filed under: History

A War Against Truth: An Intimate Account of the Invasion of Iraq

By Paul William Roberts

Only a few pages into this searing narrative, Paul William Roberts recounts the sudden destruction of his friend’s family home. With the “enormous, crunchy crash” still ringing in our ears, Roberts guides us into a ... Read More »

December 21, 2004 | Filed under: History

Future Tense: The Coming World Order

By Gwynne Dyer

The growing space on bookstore shelves dedicated to events related to 9/11, Bush administration malfeasance, and the war in Iraq will benefit from Gwynne Dyer’s Future Tense, a good primer for the political novice gingerly ... Read More »

December 21, 2004 | Filed under: History

Great Canadian Speeches

By Dennis Gruending, ed.

Some speeches are great in their own right. Some are made great by circumstances. Both types are well represented in journalist and former member of Parliament Dennis Gruending’s new book. Gruending has collected and edited ... Read More »

December 6, 2004 | Filed under: History

★ Redress: Inside the Japanese Canadian Call for Justice

By Roy Miki

Poet, teacher, and social critic Roy Miki has done Canadian history a remarkable service with his poignant, insightful, and brutally honest recounting of the century-long struggle for Japanese-Canadian citizenship rights. Miki approaches the story of ... Read More »

November 22, 2004 | Filed under: History

Heart So Hungry: The Extraordinary Expedition of Mina Hubbard into the Labrador Wilderness

By Randall Silvis

In Heart So Hungry, Pennsylvania author Randall Silvis takes Norman Mailer’s injunction that all writing is fiction to heart. The result, as Silvis admits, is a “hybrid of fact and fiction” based on a true ... Read More »

November 22, 2004 | Filed under: History

Night Justice: The True Story of the Black Donnellys

By Peter Edwards

In the preface to Night Justice, Peter Edwards admits that although he grew up in “Donnelly country” in London, Ontario, all he knew about the notorious Irish-Canadian family was that they had been murdered by ... Read More »

November 1, 2004 | Filed under: History

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It Made You Think of Home: The Haunting Journals of Deward Barnes, CEF: 1916-1919

Hope in Hell: Inside the World of Doctors Without Borders

An Unauthorized Biography of the World: Oral History on the Front Lines

The Battle of the St. Lawrence: The Second World War in Canada

A War Against Truth: An Intimate Account of the Invasion of Iraq

Future Tense: The Coming World Order

Great Canadian Speeches

★ Redress: Inside the Japanese Canadian Call for Justice

Heart So Hungry: The Extraordinary Expedition of Mina Hubbard into the Labrador Wilderness

Night Justice: The True Story of the Black Donnellys

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