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Boys and Girls in No Man's Land

By (author) Susan Fisher
Categories: First World War

Boys and Girls in No Man's Land examines how the First World War entered the lives and imaginations of Canadian children. Drawing on educational materials, textbooks, adventure tales, plays, and Sunday-school ...

Canada's Army

By (author) J. L. Granatstein
Categories: History of the Americas
  • The Militia Myth: Canadian Arms to Confederation
  • Making an Army: Beginnings
  • A Militia under Arms: Sam Hughes’s Army
  • Becoming Professional: Arthur Currie’s Army
  • Losing Professionalism: The Interwar ...

From Victoria to Vladivostok

This groundbreaking book brings to a life a forgotten chapter in the history of Canada and Russia – the journey of 4,200 Canadian soldiers from Victoria to Vladivostok in 1918 to help defeat Bolshevism. ...

Millions of Souls

Philip Riteman is a Holocaust survivor whose mission is to educate today’s youth on the atrocities committed against millions of Jews and Gentiles by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime during World War II. ...

The 1956 Hungarian Revolution

In October 1956, a spontaneous uprising took Hungarian Communist authorities by surprise, prompting Soviet authorities to invade the country. After a few days of violent fighting, the revolt was crushed. ...

Awfully Devoted Women

By (author) Cameron Duder
Categories: History of the Americas
Series: Sexuality Studies

The lives of many lesbians prior to 1965 remain cloaked in mystery. Historians have turned the spotlight on upper-middle-class “romantic friends” and on working-class butch and femme women, but the ...