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Braille (abrégé), Braille électronique (abrégé), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Téléchargement direct), DAISY audio (Zip)
Succès de librairie (documentaires), Ouvrages documentaires canadiens, Auteurs canadiens (documentaires), Guerre, Seconde Guerre mondiale
Audio avec voix humaine, Braille avec transcription humaine
On the night of March 24, 1944, eighty airmen crawled through a 400-foot-long tunnel, code-named "Harry," and dashed from Stalag…
Luft III, the infamous WWII German POW camp. It became known as The Great Escape. The breakout had taken a year to plan, involved 2,000 POWs, and prompted a massive manhunt across occupied Europe. All but three escapees were recaptured, and on Hitler’s orders, fifty were murdered. The author recounts this battle of wits and determination through the voices of those involved, assembles original interviews, memoirs, letters and diaries to reconstruct the Great Escape’s untold story. Bestseller. 2014.
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Succès de librairie (documentaires), Histoire, Etats-Unis (histoire)
Audio avec voix humaine
At the height of World War II, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was home to 75,000 residents. But to most of the…
world, the town did not exist. Thousands of civilians—many of them young women from small towns across the South—were recruited to this secret city, enticed by solid wages and the promise of war-ending work. Kept very much in the dark, few would ever guess the true nature of the tasks they performed each day in the hulking factories in the middle of the Appalachian Mountains. That is, until the end of the war—when Oak Ridge’s fateful secret was revealed. Bestseller. 2013.
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Biographies, Histoire (biographies), Politique et gouvernement (biographies), Ouvrages documentaires canadiens, Canada (histoire)
Audio avec voix humaine
Winston Churchill's connection with Canada ("the Great Dominion", as he called it) spanned more than half a century: at Winnipeg…
he heard the news of Queen Victoria's death, in Ottawa in the dark days of 1941 he proclaimed his confidence in victory, and in 1952 had to concede that the result of victory had been far less satisfying than he had wished. No other Commonwealth country sparked such detailed knowledge or lifelong interest. 2005.
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Voyages et géographie, Asie (voyage et géographie)
Audio avec voix humaine
In 1997 this New York Times journalist traveled across Asia, visiting the classic hill towns built by several colonial powers.…
She recalls her journeys to these remote locations, discusses their history, and describes how each has evolved since being inherited by an independent nation. 1998.
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Biographies, Guerre et militaire (biographies), Ouvrages documentaires canadiens, Policiers et militaires, Seconde Guerre mondiale
Audio avec voix humaine
Granatstein's study of life at the top during the Second World War centres on the most senior ranks in the…
Canadian Army. Men like Andrew McNaughton, Harold Crerar, Thomas Burns and Guy Simonds had not only to win military campaigns, but also command the sympathies of bureaucrats and powerful politicians. None, however, forgot they were fighting a war, and that their decisions directly affected the lives of Canadian soldiers. 1993.
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Ouvrages documentaires canadiens, Canada (histoire)
Audio avec voix humaine
Berton describes the follies and tragedies of the decade-long Depression and criticizes the political leaders who failed to take the…
bold steps necessary to deal with unemployment, drought and despair. He portrays the ordinary people who struggled to survive, and denounces the wealthy businessmen who stretched the laws and took advantage of their employees. Bestseller 1990. Nominated for the 1993 Torgi Award.
Braille (abrégé), Braille électronique (abrégé), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Téléchargement direct), DAISY audio (Zip)
Essais et documents primés, Succès de librairie (documentaires), Ouvrages documentaires canadiens, Loi et crime, Crime véritable
Audio avec voix humaine, Braille automatisé
In 1997, when a shattered kayak and camping gear are found on an Alaskan island north of the Canadian border,…
they reignite a mystery surrounding a shocking act of protest. The author braids together the strands of this mystery and brings to life the historical collision of Europeans and the Haida and the harrowing world of logging. Canada Reads 2012. Winner of the 2005 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. Bestseller. 2005.
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Ouvrages documentaires canadiens, Canada (histoire), Policiers et militaires
Audio avec voix humaine
Amidst public outcry, Prime Minister John A. Macdonald created the North West Mounted Police to bring law and order to…
one of the most dangerous places in North America -- the Canadian West. Using original sources, the authors portray the first Mounties, some three hundred untrained young men, who were sent west to drive out whiskey smugglers and outlaws, and pacify the Indians. Some strong language. c1996.
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Produits dérivés de films ou d’émission de télévisionPoliciers et militaires, Guerre, Seconde Guerre mondiale
Audio avec voix humaine
The Great Escape tells how more than six hundred men in a German prisoner of war camp worked together to…
achieve an extraordinary break-out. Every night for a year they dug tunnels, and those who weren't digging forged passports, drew maps, faked weapons and tailored German uniforms and civilian clothes to wear once they had escaped. All of this was conducted under the very noses of their prison guards. When the right night came, the actual escape itself was timed to the split second - but of course, not everything went according to plan... 2000.
Braille (abrégé), Braille électronique (abrégé), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Téléchargement direct), DAISY audio (Zip)
Ouvrages documentaires canadiens, Europe (histoire), Policiers et militaires, Guerre
Audio avec voix humaine, Braille automatisé
In 1993, Canadian peacekeepers in Croatia were plunged into the most significant fighting Canada had seen since the Korean War.…
In September 1993, in a tiny corner of Croatia known as Medak Pocket, a unit of Canadian peacekeepers planted themselves between besieged Serbs and the advancing Croat army, driving them from the area under United Nations protection. The soldiers should have returned home as heroes, but instead, they arrived under a cloud of suspicion and silence. Descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2004.
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Ouvrages documentaires canadiens, Canada (histoire), Christianisme
Audio avec voix humaine
Although Canada is a young nation, its Catholic Church boasts a thousand-year history. The author, a Bishop, presents this history…
through vignettes of women and men whose presence, vision, daring, determination, compassion, and action planted the Canadian Church from sea to sea. He also provides a look at the Church today. 2002.
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Aventuriers et explorateurs (biographies), Voyages et géographie, Asie (voyage et géographie)
Audio avec voix humaine
The author recounts her expedition into the forests of Borneo in search of a reclusive primatologist, who has devoted her…
life to protecting orphaned orangutans. Describes the beauty of the island, the local society, and the despoilment of natural resources through poaching, deforestation, and misguided ecotourism. 1998.
Braille (abrégé), Braille électronique (abrégé), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Téléchargement direct), DAISY audio (Zip)
Policiers et militaires, Politique et gouvernement
Audio avec voix humaine, Braille automatisé
Hart, a former senator and presidential candidate, fears that containment of communism has been supplanted by a blatant strategy of…
empire as the basis of American foreign policy. He rejects what he regards as the unilateral efforts by the current administration to promote geopolitical interests. As an alternative, Hart proposes a foreign policy designed to advance the "fourth power" - that is, the power of core American values, including representative government and individual liberty. 2004.
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Ouvrages documentaires canadiens, Canada (histoire), Guerre, Première Guerre mondiale
Audio avec voix humaine
When the First World War began, Newfoundland had been without any kind of military organisation for more than half a…
century, so public-spirited citizens immediately formed themselves into a Patriotic Association, and within sixty days had recruited, partially equipped and dispatched 537 officers and men overseas. Nicholson details the harrowing experiences of the Newfoundland Regiment at Gallipoli, Beaumont Hamel, the Third Battle of Ypres and Cambrai, for which they were granted the title "Royal" - the only army unit to receive such a distinction during World War I. Some descriptions of violence. 2006.
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Ouvrages documentaires canadiens, Canada (histoire)
Audio avec voix humaine
Recounts the history of the Quebec part of the Labrador coast. Describes the arrival of the Aboriginals and the activities…
of the Breton and Basque fishermen, and the French- and English-speaking merchants from Quebec City who controlled the region for more than one hundred and fifty years. Chronicles the early pioneers and their descendants and how they dealt with the precariousness of the fisheries, and explores the role of the Anglican and Catholic missionaries. 2006.
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Succès de librairie (documentaires), Ouvrages documentaires canadiens, Auteurs canadiens (documentaires), Sports et jeux
Audio avec voix humaine
“The Fix” tells the story of an investigative journalist who sets out to examine the seedy world of match-fixing in professional soccer. 2010.
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Succès de librairie (documentaires), Biographies, Politique et gouvernement (biographies)
Audio avec voix humaine
Biography of one of America's founding fathers, incorporating correspondence and anecdotes of his contemporaries. Franklin was heralded as a leading…
inventor and scientist, author, and diplomat as well as a bon vivant. In exploring Franklin's conversion from British loyalist to revolutionary, Brands seeks out the genius behind the man. 2000.
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Biographies, Histoire (biographies), Femmes (biographies), Canadiens (biographies), Ouvrages documentaires canadiens, Canada (histoire), Colonisation (histoire)
Audio avec voix humaine
Eva MacLean left her settled, Presbyterian Ontario life behind to accompany her young minister-veternarian husband to the "wilds" of northwestern…
B.C. in the early 1900s, during times of mining rushes and railroad-building. 1993.
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Biographies, Religion (biographies), Femmes (biographies), Voyages et géographie, Asie (voyage et géographie)
Audio avec voix humaine
Following her husband's death in 1976, Anton spent several years in India as a volunteer Jesuit Lay Missionary. Having travelled…
extensively in India, she presents a realistic look at this nation in transition. 1979.
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Loi et crime (biographies), Loi et crime, Policiers et militaires, Crime véritable , Art de vivre, Sociologie
Audio avec voix humaine
The Fence documents the true story of a Boston police incident during which an undercover officer was brutally beaten by…
fellow officers who mistook him for a murder suspect. Some strong language and some descriptions of violence. c2009.