AUSTRALASIAN & PACIFIC HISTORY: SECOND WORLD WAR. AUSTRALIAN. In November 1940, Arthur Bancroft kissed his sweetheart, Mirla, goodbye and signed up with the Royal Australian Navy to go to war. He was nineteen years old. Arthur'...
History and geography
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Author:BANCROFT, ArthurSummary: - Author:De Ruyter, KittySummary:
Like Anne Frank, Corrie ten Boom, and Viktor Frankl, Kitty de Ruyter-Bons endured the terror of man's inhumanity to man during World War II. In this inspiring and powerful true story, Kitty testifies of the triumph of the human spirit...
- Author:ABC BOOKSSummary:
Selected material from the ABC programs. Actual recordings of the sounds of war, political crises, tragic disasters, voices of protest and other evocative moments on radio.
- Author:Wilson, BruceSummary:
As She Began, an illustrated introduction to Loyalist Ontario, provides a general guide to the most crucial period in Ontario’s history, 1775 to 1800, when thousands of refugees from the American Revolution streamed into the land...
- Author:Fostaty, GerrySummary:
Gripping — the news story that never was. SUMMER, 1974 — Six teenaged boys died and fifty-four were injured in an explosion on a Canadian Forces Base in Valcartier, Quebec. A live grenade inadvertently made its way into a box of dud...
- Author:Iles, Elizabeth A.Summary:
Ask the Grey Sisters: Sault Ste. Marie and the General Hospital, 1898-1998 tells the story of the creation and one-hundred-year history of the Sault Ste. Marie General Hospital. At a time when Canada's healthcare system is at a...
- Author:Cuthand, DougSummary:
Cree journalist and filmmaker Doug Cuthand articulates the past, present, and future of Saskatchewan's Aboriginal people.
In his trademark direct prose style, Cree journalist and filmmaker Doug Cuthand articulates the past,...
- Author:Zuehlke, MarkSummary:
Dawn, June 6, 1944. Off the Normandy coast 6,500 ships carry 150,000 Allied troops. This is D-Day, the long-awaited Allied invasion of German-occupied Europe. The Allies will storm five beaches. One is code-named Juno Beach. Here, 14,...
- Author:Nickel, Sarah A.Summary:
Established narratives portray Indigenous unity as emerging solely in response to the political agenda of the settler state. But unity has long shaped the modern Indigenous political movement. With Indigenous perspectives in the...
- Author:Spector, DavidSummary:
In 1904, Assiniboine Park was conceived as a peoples playground, a place devoid of commercial amusements where all classes of Winnipeggers could relax andrejuvenate in idyllic and Arcadian surroundings. The book traces the development...
- Author:Cooper, AndersonSummary:
The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and how they built and lavished their fortune. The story of the Astors is a...
- Author:Taim, AstridSummary:
The Almaguin Highlands, an extensive territory covering a 90 kilometre corridor from Huntsville, north to Callander, west to Dunchurch, and east to the Algonquin Park border, is a land rich with lakes, rivers, and a lively history. Once...
- Author:Urbain, Jean-DidierSummary:
Around the world, when people think of vacation it's the beach they want-even when long distances must be traversed, the seashore is the place to escape the rigors of modern life. How did this come to be, and what does our ongoing love...
- Author:Bray, Matt, Thomson, AshleySummary:
Mining has played a formative role in the history of Northern Ontario. It has been one of the key generators of wealth in the area since the mid-19th century, and is also responsible for much of the urban development of Ontario's...
- Author:Tovell, Freeman M.Summary:
Capitán de Navío Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra was the most important Spanish naval officer on the Northwest Coast in the eighteenth century. Serving from 1774 to 1794, he participated in the search for the Northwest Passage and...
- Author:Spector, Ronald H.Summary:
The definitive history of 20th-century naval combat.
- Author:Garland, RobertSummary:
Roughly 2,500 years ago, the elite classes of Athens gradually ceded power to the inexperienced masses, thus establishing a radical democracy in which power derived from the votes of everyday citizens. The sequence of events that led to...
- Author:Clark, BruceSummary:
A sweeping history of Athens, telling the three-thousand-year story of the birthplace of Western civilization. Even on the most smog-bound of days, the rocky outcrop on which the Acropolis stands is visible above the sprawling roofscape...
- Author:Brookes, ChrisSummary:
May 1940. Britain is losing the war. Churchill is desperate for bombers. Aircraft deliveries from U.S. factories are being ravaged by German U-Boats at sea. Can the planes be flown across the storm-swept North Atlantic to Britain? A...
- Author:Campey, Lucille H.Summary:
A transformative work that explodes assumptions about the importance of the Great Irish Potato Famine to Irish immigration. In this major study, Lucille Campey traces the relocation of around ninety thousand Irish people to their new...
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