Posts Tagged ‘history’
The Diary of a Young Girl
A young girl’s journal records her family’s struggles during two years of hiding from the Nazis in war-torn Holland.
Read MoreI am Malala
A MEMOIR BY THE YOUNGEST RECIPIENT OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE “I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday.” When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her…
Read MoreVictory at Vimy
At the height of the First World War, on Easter Monday April 9, 1917, in early morning sleet, sixteen battalions of the Canadian Corps rose along a six-kilometre line of trenches in northern France against the occupying Germans. All four Canadian divisions advanced in a line behind a well-rehearsed creeping barrage of artillery fire. By…
Read MoreThe Great Escape
2014 Libris Award — Joint Winner, Non-Fiction Book of the Year Globe and Mail Bestseller Toronto Star Bestseller A unique retelling of WWII’s most dramatic escape, told through first-hand recollections of the soldiers who experienced it. On the night of March 24, 1944, eighty airmen crawled through a 400-foot-long tunnel, code-named “Harry,” and dashed from…
Read MoreHaunted Canada 2
Spine-chilling tales from across the country! Strange disappearances, unexplained accidents and grisly ghosts! Following the success of Haunted Canada, this second volume collects more frightening Canadian tales.Whether you’re looking for a spooky Halloween story, something scary to read by the campfire, or a peek at the darker side of Canada, Haunted Canada 2 is sure…
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More true ghost stories collected from across Canada! These creepy stories are perfect for around the campfire and at Halloween. Will you be able to read them all?
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They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children
“The ultimate focus of the rest of my life is to eradicate the use of child soldiers and to eliminate even the thought of the use of children as instruments of war.” –Roméo Dallaire In conflicts around the world, there is an increasingly popular weapon system that requires negligible technology, is simple to sustain, has…
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