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The bombing war: Europe 1939-1945
By R. J Overy. 2013
The ultimate history of the Blitz and bombing in the Second World War, from Wolfson Prize-winning historian and author Richard…
Overy. The use of massive fleets of bombers to kill and terrorize civilians was an aspect of the Second World War which continues to challenge the idea that the Allies specifically fought a 'moral' war. For Britain, bombing became perhaps its principal contribution to the fighting as, night after night, exceptionally brave men flew over occupied Europe destroying its cities. "The Bombing War" is the first book to examine not just the most well-known parts of the campaign, but the significance of bombing on many other fronts - the German use of bombers on the Eastern Front for example (as well as much newly discovered material on the more familiar 'Blitz' on Britain), or the Allied campaigns against Italian cities. 2013.The book of miracles: the meaning of the miracle stories in Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam
By Kenneth L Woodward. 2000
Author of Making Saints and veteran Newsweek religion writer presents his view that miracles are best understood in the context…
of a story. Explains the relevance of marvellous deeds in the major world faiths; presents accounts of saints, sages, and revered masters in each of the great traditions. c2000.The book of revenge: a blues for Yugoslavia
By Dragan Todorović. 2006
Serb Dragan Todorovic goes to Belgrade as the editor of a cultural magazine, but his constant clashes with the system…
end in his being drafted into the army. Dragan survives his tour of duty, but his return to Belgrade is unsettling - everything is changing, friendships are collapsing, conversations are guarded, and bit by bit, the country he knows and loves is being torn apart. Some strong language. 2006.Twenty-three-year old Cleo Koff, a forensic anthropologist, was one of sixteen scientists chosen to go to Rwanda in 1996 to…
find evidence of genocide and crimes against humanity. Her job was to discover who the victims were and how they had been killed. Koff also describes similar missions to Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo. Some violence. 2004.The call: discovering why you are here
By Oriah Mountain Dreamer. 2003
The book exhorts us to heed the voice inside us, calling us to discover and to live fully our true…
selves and our heart's desires - finding our own unique calling, not in the expectations of others and in the outside world, but deep within ourselves. 2003.The boys of Pointe du Hoc: Ronald Reagan, D-Day, and the U.S. Army 2nd Ranger Battalion
By Douglas Brinkley, Ronald Reagan. 2005
The author contends that when President Reagan honoured the fortieth anniversary of D-Day - the Normandy invasion of Europe -…
on June 6, 1984, he energized the nation and inspired a "New Patriotism." Recalls the way army Rangers scaled the French cliffs to defeat the Nazis and discusses Reagan's American legacy. 2005.The blind mechanic: the amazing story of Eric Davidson, survivor of the 1917 Halifax Explosion
By Marilyn Elliott, Janet Kitz. 2018
Eric Davidson was a beautiful, fair-haired toddler when the Halifax Explosion struck, killing almost 2,000 people and seriously injuring thousands…
of others. Eric lost both eyes-a tragedy that his mother never fully recovered from. Eric, however, was positive and energetic. He also developed a fascination with cars and how they worked, and he later decided, against all likelihood, to become a mechanic. Assisted by his brothers who read to him from manuals, he worked hard, passed examinations, and carved out a decades-long career. Once the subject of a National Film Board documentary, Eric Davidson was, until his death, a much-admired figure in Halifax. Written by his daughter Marilyn, this book gives new insights into the story of the 1917 Halifax Explosion and contains never-before-seen documents and photographs. Winner of the 2019 The Robbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award (Non-Fiction). 2018.The Black Sheep: the definitive account of Marine Fighting Squadron 214 in World War II
By Bruce Gamble. 1998
Gamble recounts actual events behind the legends of World War II fighters in marine squadron 214. Describes exaggerations among the…
images portrayed in a popular television series and even in "Pappy" Boyington's autobiography. Presents a roster of pilots and a chronology of VMF-214 operations. c1998.The blind Victorian: Henry Fawcett and British liberalism
By Lawrence Goldman. 1989
Henry Fawcett, a promising academic, was blinded in a shooting accident at the age of 25. This did not hinder…
him from consolidating his position at the confluence of so many streams of British culture and politics. 1989.The bloodless revolution: a cultural history of vegetarianism from 1600 to modern times
By Tristram Stuart. 2007
The word "vegetarian" wasn't coined until the 1840s, but the vegetarian impulse has been deeply-seated in Western culture since the…
17th century - Francis Bacon and Thomas Bushell contended that a vegetarian diet provided a key not only to long life but also to spiritual perfection. Stuart follows its development through its Romantic proponents Shelley and Rousseau and on into the 19th century, when doctors proffered scientific evidence that human teeth and intestines were more similar to those of herbivores than of carnivores, to more recent history, which has seen the expansion of a correlative animal-rights movement. 2006.The big break: the greatest American WWII POW escape story never told
By Stephen Dando-Collins. 2017
Schubin, Poland, January, 1945. With the Red Army advancing closer every day, POW Camp commandant Colonel Fritz Schneider received orders…
from Berlin to march his American prisoners west. Game on! Over the next few days, 250 US Army officers would succeed in escaping east to link up with the Russians--although they would prove almost as dangerous as the Nazis--only to be ordered once they arrived back in the United States not to talk about their adventures. Within months, General Patton would launch a bloody bid to rescue the remaining Schubin Americans. This previously untold story follows POWs including General Eisenhower's personal aide, General Patton's son-in-law, and Ernest Hemingway's eldest son as they struggled to be free. 2017.Hoffman explores what the Bible meant before it was misinterpreted over the past 2,000 years. He walks the reader through…
dozens of mistranslations, misconceptions, and other misunderstandings about the Bible, covering the morality, lifestyle, theology, and biblical imagery. 2016.The Bible's cutting room floor: the Holy Scriptures missing from your Bible
By Joel M Hoffman. 2014
The Bible you usually read is not the complete story. Some holy writings were left out for political or theological…
reasons, others simply because of the physical restrictions of ancient bookmaking technology. At times, the compilers of the Bible skipped information that they assumed everyone knew. Some passages were even omitted by accident. Here Dr. Joel M. Hoffman gives us the stories and other texts that didn't make it into the Bible. 2014.The College of William and Mary professor, Adam Potkay delivers a course that will provide listeners with a literary and…
historical overview of the Bible from its opening in Genesis to its ending in the Book of Revelation, and also with a sense of some of the ways in which the Bible has influenced the literary traditions of the West. 2003.The black battalion: 1916-1920 : Canada's best kept military secret
By Calvin W Ruck. 1987
Since the American War of Independence, black soldiers had served in both the British and Canadian armies, and fought in…
British wars throughout the nineteenth century. At the outbreak of World War I, however, most black Canadian volunteers were rejected on the basis of their skin colour. Finally, in 1916, the first and only Black battalion in Canadian military history was authorized. The No. 2 Construction Battalion, CEF, consisted of approximately 600 soldiers, and was commended for its discipline and service at the end of the war. It was disbanded in 1920. c1987.The Bible: As If For The First Time (Spirituality and the Christian life series #Vol. 1)
By H. A Nielsen. 1984
Sinatra, l'artiste et l'homme
By John Lahr, Catherine Pierre. 1999
The angel of Grozny: inside Chechnya
By Åsne Seierstad, Nadia Christensen. 2009
The conflict in Chechnya was the first war that Asne Seierstad covered. Now ten years later, she returns to Chechnya…
and discovers that though the world's attention has moved on, the tragedy has continued, killing ten to 15 percent of the population and leaving a brutalized society with a particular toll on its children. 2009.The art of war
By Tzu Sun. 2006
Twenty-five hundred years ago, Sun Tzu wrote this classic book of military strategy based on Chinese warfare and military thought.…
Since that time, all levels of the military have used the teaching on Sun Tzu for warfare, and others have adapted these teachings for use in politics, business and everyday life. 2006.The ascent of Eli Israel, and other stories
By Jon Papernick. 2002
In a land where sudden death is an everyday fact of life, a boy dodges bullets and searches through rubble…
for news of his soldier father. An aging rabbi's faith is tested by a crippling, seemingly supernatural affliction. A middle-aged man comforts his Holocaust-survivor mother as she faces senility, convinced that Nazis are conspiring against her. And the mysterious biblical red heifer makes a startling appearance in the midst of a decidedly contemporary struggle. 2002.