In 1931 during the Great Depression sisters Sophie and Rose join the Toronto Dressmakers' Strike and the fight of their lives.
History
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Auteur:Caldwell, Wilber W.Sommaire:For the two generations who have grown up since Lyndon Johnson was president, the events as well as the thinking behind the revolutionary and romantic pretensions of the 1960s are almost equally unclear. This was the era of the Beatles...
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It was a watershed year for Canada and the world. 1945 set Canada on a bold course into the future. A huge sense of relief marked the end of hostilities. Yet there was also fear and uncertainty about the perilous new world that was...
- 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.
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Auteur:Fawcett, BillSommaire:Bill Fawcett offers a compendium of 101 all-new mammoth mistakes--from the ill-fated rule of Emperor Darius III to the equally ill-fated search for WMDs in Iraq--that will, unfortunately, never be forgotten by history.
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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...
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Auteur:Starita, JoeSommaire:In 1877, Ponca Indians were forcibly relocated from Nebraska to Oklahoma. "I Am a Man" chronicles what happened when Standing Bear began a six-hundred-mile walk to return the body of his son to their traditional burial ground...
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Auteur:O'Brien, Christopher MarkSommaire:Fermenting Revolution delivers an empowering message about how individuals can change the world through the simple act of having a beer. It is also the first book to view all of the important trends in human history as fundamentally...
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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...
- Auteur:JOHNSON, Richard WilliamSommaire:
The universal jubilation that greeted Nelson Mandela's inauguration as president of South Africa in 1994 and the process by which the nightmare of apartheid had been banished is one of the most thrilling, hopeful stories in the...
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Auteur:ESDAILE, CharlesSommaire:No other soldier has provoked as much anger or as much fervour as Napoleon Bonaparte. Was he a monster, driven on by an endless, ruinous quest for military adventure - or was he a social and political visionary, brought down by petty...
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Auteur:Lund, Gerald N.Sommaire:This 1991 novel is volume two in the author's series, "The Work and the Glory," and continues the saga of the Steed family during the early years of LDS Church history, 1830-1836. As the infant Church expands and spreads westward into...
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Auteur:Barris, TedSommaire:"Never talked about it." That's what most people say when they're asked if the veteran in the family ever shared wartime experiences. Describing combat, imprisonment or lost comrades from the World Wars, the Korea War, or even...
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