A reckoning with the great drama that ensued after war came to an end in 1945. Regime change had come on a global scale, creating the greatest power vacuum in history. Out of the vicious power struggles emerged the modern world as we...
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Auteur:Jean-Yves, SoucySommaire:It is 1963, Jean-Yves Soucy is 18 and looking for a summer job. He dreams of being a fire warden scanning the boreal forest from a fire tower. But to his dismay he is sent to an equipment depot somewhere between Val-d'Or and...
- Auteur:Gélinas, PaulineSommaire:
La trahison, dans toutes ses déclinaisons. Jusqu'à la dépossession. C'est ce qui est au cœur de La Brochure, où alternent constamment les époques et où foisonnent les revirements de situation. Dans cette épopée, cupidité et...
- Auteur:Swift, Jamie, McKay, IanSommaire:
The story of the bloody 1917 Battle of Vimy Ridge is, according to many of today's tellings, a heroic founding moment for Canada. This noble, birth-of-a-nation narrative is regularly applied to the Great War in general. Yet this...
- Auteur:Perkin, J. RussellSommaire:
The 1970s in Britain saw a series of industrial disputes, a referendum on membership in the European Economic Community, conflict about issues of immigration and citizenship, and emergent environmental and feminist movements. It was...
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Auteur:Crosbie, LynnSommaire:At once casting aside and reinventing the confessional mode, Liar is a booklength monument to love found, betrayed, renounced, and ultimately accepted as transformative. The white-hot immediacy of detail and scorching emotional honesty...
- Auteur:Merrett, Robert JamesSommaire:
At war for sixty years, eighteenth-century Britain and France experienced demographic, social, and economic exchanges despite their imperial rivalry. Paradoxically, this rivalry spurred their participation in scientific and industrial...
