20th century
- Auteur:Fowler, CarolynSommaire:
- Auteur:Conant, JennetSommaire:
Conant delivers a stunning account of Julia Child's early life as an Office of Special Services agent in the Far East. Who would ever suspect that Julia Child--TV's popular cooking show host and master of French cuisine--was once a...
- Auteur:MacKenzie Art GallerySommaire:
One of Canada's most important art alliances made history by demanding recognition for its members as professional, contemporary artists at a time when they were routinely excluded from the mainstream art world.
- Auteur:Barrett, David DeanSommaire:
On the seventy-fifth anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki comes this account of the war-room drama inside the cabinets of the United States and Japan that led to Armageddon on August 6, 1945.
- Auteur:Lawlor, AllisonSommaire:
On May 13, 1939, the eve of the Second World War, the MS St. Louis left port in Hamburg, Germany, headed for Havana, Cuba. Among the ship's passengers were more than six hundred Jews attempting to escape Nazi rule. But most of the...
- Auteur:Huber, FlorianSommaire:
By the end of April 1945 in Germany, the Third Reich had fallen and invasion was underway. As the Red Army advanced, horrifying stories spread about the depravity of its soldiers. For many German people, there seemed to be nothing left...
- Auteur:Duder, CameronSommaire:
The lives of lesbians who grew up before 1965 remain cloaked in mystery. Historians have illuminated the worlds of upper-middle-class "romantic friends" and working-class butch and femme women who frequented lesbian bars in the ’50s and...