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A renowned historian and Resistance fighter - later executed by the Nazis - analyzes at first hand why France fell in 1940. Marc Bloch wrote Strange Defeat during the three months following the fall of France, after he returned home from military service. In the midst...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2021-11-09
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Revolt in the Desert is Lawrence of Arabia's classic military memoir, an account of the experiences of one remarkable British officer's war from his own perspective, a war of lightning raids, of blown up railway tracks and trains, ambushes and open battles of Arabs...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2021-11-06
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The author had enlisted in 1901 in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers and was a reservist when the First World War broke out. He rejoined his old, 2nd Battalion and landed in France with them on 11 August 1914. He went right through the war with the battalion, never missing a...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2021-11-06
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William Bligh (1754-1817) was an officer of the British Royal Navy and a colonial administrator eventually rising in rank to Vice Admiral. During his command of the "Bounty" in 1789, a notorious mutiny occurred.William Bligh and eighteen of his loyal seamen were...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2021-11-05
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The Roman is a superb reconstruction of a time long ago, the Roman world in the time of the Emperors Claudius & Nero. It's the story of Minutus, of noble birth, who serves the government and travels widely through the Empire, from his home in Antioch to the seat of...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2021-11-05
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Profiles of 16 decisive struggles from ancient and modern times. Gripping accounts range from Alexander the Great's conquest to World War II. Pratt depicts the circumstances leading up to the decisive clashes, the personalities involved, and the historically important...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2021-11-05
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Samurai! is the personal story of Japan's greatest fighter pilot!
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2021-11-05
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Self Condemned tells the story of Professor Renarding who finds himself reduced to a position at a second-rate university in Canada after his resignation as an academic in London. He and his wife suffer through a bleak and oppressive isolation in a dreary and alien...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2021-11-05
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First published in the 1940s and widely condemned as obscene, The Egyptian outsold every other American novel published that same year, and remains a classic; readers worldwide have testified to its life-changing power. It is a full-bodied re-creation of a largely...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2021-11-05
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This amusing foray into eighteenth century literature is an entertaining tabloid biography of an age not unlike our own; men and women of fashion led their lives under the avid scrutiny of a public with a sharp appetite for scandal and sensation. In the period between...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2021-11-05
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Material Traces of War: Stories of Canadian Women and Conflict, 1914–1945 looks at Canadian women’s experiences of, and contributions to, the world wars through objects, images, and archival documents. The book tells the stories of women who worked as civilians, served...
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Mercury-Mercure
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2021-11-02
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True story of a young Nova Scotia woman who found herself witness to the Armenian genocide in the nineteenth century, from celebrated author of Mona Parsons.
These days it’s common for twentysomething women to seek adventure and life experience through travel. Some...
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Nimbus
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2021-10-26
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WINNER Canadian Historical Association Indigenous History Book Prize (2022)
WINNER Canadian Historical Association Ontario CLIO Prize (2022)
WINNER Ontario Historical Society Indigenous History Award (2022)
WINNER Manitoba Book Awards Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award...
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University of Manitoba Press
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2021-10-01
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WINNER J.J. Talman Award, Ontario Historical Society (2022)
NOMINATED Toronto Heritage Book Award (2022)
Undressed Toronto looks at the life of the swimming hole and considers how Toronto turned boys skinny dipping into comforting anti-modernist folk figures. By digging...
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University of Manitoba Press
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2021-10-01
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WINNER OF THE HUBERT REEVES 2021 AWARD FOR SCIENCE COMMUNICATORS
It’s a story peopled by leading figures of modern nuclear physics, bold chemists, and scientists accused of spying. The one idea driving them is to master the atom, whatever the result may be.
With war...
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Baraka Books
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2021-09-30
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Though First Nations communities in Canada have historically lacked access to clean water, affordable food, and equitable health care, they have never lacked access to well-funded scientists seeking to study them. Inventing the Thrifty Gene examines the relationship...
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University of Manitoba Press
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2021-09-10
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The presence of Jews in Quebec dates back four centuries. Quebec Jewry, in Montreal in particular, has evolved over time, thanks to successive waves of migration from different regions of the world.The Jews of Quebec belong to a unique society in North America, which...
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University of Ottawa Press
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2021-09-07
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This book is about Newfoundland and Labrador’s response following 9/11. For the first time, Mac Moss tells the stories of people across the entire province—from Stephenville to Gander, to Goose Bay and St. John's—who pitched in and helped approximately 13,000 stranded...
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Flanker Press
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2021-09-03
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More than two thousand Canadian women served as army nurses overseas during the First World War. The opportunity to read a diary written by one of these women—a document which was, strictly speaking, not supposed to be kept in the first place—is a unique privilege.
A...
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Nimbus
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2021-09-01
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“Jean-Yves Soucy’s story and encounter with my Dad provides a charming glimpse into a changing world, for us all.” Romeo Saganash
It’s 1963, Jean-Yves Soucy is 18 and dreams of being a fire warden scanning the boreal forest from a fire tower. But he ends up at an...
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Baraka Books
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2021-08-30
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