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By Simon Schama. 1999
This biography examines the life of the Dutch artist Rembrandt. The author conjures the world in which Rembrandt moved -…
its sounds, smells and tastes as well as its politics - and the influences on him including the wars of the Protestant United Provinces against Spain, and the demands of patrons and the ambitions of contemporaries. Above all the profound effect on Rembrandt of the leading master of the immediately preceding generation, Rubens, with whom Rembrandt was obsessed for the first part of his life. 1999.By Linda Granfield. 2009
"In Flanders Fields the poppies blow..."Every Canadian student, teacher and parent can recite these powerful words. But behind every poem…
is a poet, who lived, breathed, and in this case, led an extraordinary life. Despite John McCrae reaching Canadian icon status, his life has been largely unknown. This books is a beautiful tribute to this man. Some descriptions of violence. Grades 4-7. 2009.By Alex Bowlby. 1989
The battalion in which Bowlby served was renowned throughout the Eighth army, but luck deserted it after the North African…
campaign. Stripped of its hard core of regulars it was sent as heavy infantry to Italy, instead of the specialised role for which it had been trained, and lost its first and second battles. Bowlby describes exactly how men behave when the heat is on, and his account of life in an infantry platoon in Italy 1944. 1989.By Brenda McBryde. 1989
The author, herself a wartime nurse, has produced a full account of nursing during the Second World War. Being 'there'…
when the need arose often meant working under difficult and dangerous conditions. Through the violence and tragedy which stained the war years. The humanity of the doctors and nurses gleams with a reassuring endurance. 1989.By C. Brian Kelly, Ingrid Smyer-Kelly. 2017
A new volume of stories specific to the Marine Corps, dating from the very beginning (American Revolution) to modern day,…
including the 18th and 19th century, the Boxer rebellion, the two world wars, Korea and Vietnam, Desert Storm, Iraq and Afghanistan. 2017.By Sediqa Massoud, Chékéba Hachemi, Marie-Françoise Colombani. 2005
Massoud. Ce nom évoque l'homme qui a résisté dans les montagnes d'Afghanistan contre les Soviétiques, puis contre les talibans. Le…
héros assassiné par les extrémistes de l'Islam, le 9 septembre 2001, deux jours avant les attentats du World Trade Center. Ce témoignage exceptionnel est celui de la femme que Massoud a aimée, épousée dans le plus grand secret, et avec qui il a eu six enfants. Sediqa Massoud nous révèle ici la face cachée d'un grand chef de guerre, visionnaire, épris de liberté, que le monde entier respecte et dont la vie personnelle reste à ce jour un mystère. 2005.By Roméo Dallaire, Jessica Dee Humphreys, Paul Gagné, Lori Saint-Martin. 2017
Témoin du génocide rwandais de 1994, le lieutenant-général Roméo Dallaire en est resté profondément marqué. Dans cette suite de J'ai…
serré la main du diable, il réfléchit à la fois sur la nature du trouble de stress post-traumatique et sur les effets de cette souffrance à la fois physique et spirituelle. En parallèle, il raconte divers épisodes de sa vie: sa destitution de l'armée pour raisons médicales, son passage au Sénat canadien, les événements douloureux qu'il a vécus pendant la rédaction de son premier livre. Le récit courageux d'un ancien militaire dont les nuits sont envahies par le désespoir, mais qui, aux premières lueurs de l'aube, fait face à la réalité avec un désir sans cesse renouvelé de changer le monde. 2017. Titre uniforme: Waiting for first light.By Živojin Mišić. 2010
By Pierre Sigouin, Hélène Gravel. 2015
" Le padre Rosaire Lupien appartient à la cohorte de héros dont il n'est fait mention dans aucun livre d'histoire.…
Pourtant sa courte vie mérite qu'on s'y attarde. Issu d'une modeste famille de Saint-Bonaventure, il a étudié au Séminaire de Nicolet afin de réaliser son rêve d'être prêtre pour donner les âmes au Christ et donner le Christ aux âmes. Tout au long de son parcours, d'abord en tant que vicaire de la paroisse Saint-Joseph de Drummondville puis à titre d'aumônier catholique dans les Forces armées canadiennes pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale et la guerre de Corée, il a su incarner la bonté, le dévouement, la générosité et la fidélité à des convictions profondes et aussi inspirer de l'admiration et du respect à tous ceux qui l'ont côtoyé. Il m'a donc semblé tout naturel de rendre hommage à mon oncle Rosaire et de faire connaître cet homme exceptionnel au destin tragique. "By Jeanette Biondi. 2003
By Brigitte Labbé, Sonia Chaine. 2006
Une biographie qui permet au lecteur de comprendre l'évolution artistique de ce grand peintre à travers les événements importants de…
sa vie. Picasso, qui, dès l'âge de dix ans, surprend son entourage par son sens aigu de l'observation et son talent pour le dessin. On le suit dans les meilleures écoles d'art espagnoles jusqu'à ce qu'il laisse tout tomber pour voyager de Barcelone à Paris, en quête de nouvelles façons de peindre. Années 3-6. 2006.By Miles Unger. 2018
In 1900, an eighteen-year-old Pablo Picasso made his first trip to Paris, and, after suffering years of poverty and neglect,…
emerged as the leader of a bohemian band of painters, sculptors, and poets. 2018.By Lewis MacKenzie. 1993
Major-General Lewis MacKenzie is the best-known Canadian soldier since the Second World War. In this memoir, he relates how he…
created Sector Sarajevo, and with a 30-nation UN force set out to liberate the airport to receive desperately needed food and medical supplies. MacKenzie became an international celebrity as he used the media -- "the only weapon I had" -- to maximum advantage. He also recounts the highlights of eight previous peacekeeping tours in the Middle East, Cyprus, and Vietnam. 1993.By Fabienne Verdier. 2005
Étudiante à l'École des beaux-arts de Toulouse, au début des années 1980, l'auteure décide de tout quitter pour nourrir sa…
passion de la calligraphie et la peinture chinoise à la source. Elle passera quelque dix ans dans le Sichuan, à Chongqing, dans une Chine pauvre et autoritaire qui se remet tant bien que mal du règne de Mao. Un portrait sensible et informé de la Chine, un éloge de l'art chinois et de ses derniers maîtres méprisés qui ont survécu aux persécutions de la Révolution culturelle, et surtout le portrait émouvant d'une jeune femme à l'esprit aventureux qui s'embarque dans une aventure artistique et spirituelle qu'elle ne pouvait imaginer au départ. 2005.By Mary Lile Benham. 1977
Biography of an artist who travelled extensively in Canada, recording the grandeur of the land, and the interesting customs and…
lifestyles of the Indians he met. Grades 5-8. c1977. (The Canadians)By Stephen Brumwell. 2006
Ugly, gangling, and tormented by agonizing illness, Major General James Wolfe was an unlikely hero, but in 1759, on the…
Plains of Abraham, he won a battle with momentous consequences. Once venerated as the embodiment of military genius, Wolfe's reputation has recently undergone revision by historians painting him as bloodthirsty and priggish. Brumwell, drawing on extensive research, offers a reassessment of a soldier whose short life altered the course of world history. Descriptions of violence. 2006.By Sandra Perron. 2017
Throughout her military training, Sandra Perron was repeatedly identified as top of her class, but was also subject to "pranks"…
that included stripping her uniform of insignia (which is a not-so-subtle way of informing her that her platoon did not have her back). The lessons she learned, however, weren't all negative - through several deployments, including Bosnia and Croatia, she forged lasting friendships with men and women. Her memoir shows that while the Canadian military did eventually let her down, she did not do the same to her fellow soldiers or her country; it also shows that the spirit of a true hero cannot be bent or broken. Winner of the 2017 Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction (QWF). 2017.By Barbara Meadowcroft. 1999
10 women met at a Montreal art school in the early part of the 20th century, and soon decided to…
form a group and function as professional painters. Much like the Group of Seven, with whom the Beaver Hall Hill Group exhibited in the 1920s and '30s, Emily Coonan, Prudence Heward, Mabel Lockerby and the rest of the group worked successfully both in Canada and internationally, though their story has been overlooked by art historians until recently. The author demonstrates how the support the women gave each other was essential to their success in the male-dominated art world, and discusses their paintings in the context of the social and political circumstances of the period. 1999.By Peggy Guggenheim. 1946
By Terence O'Brien. 1984
Anyone who survived a full tour of bombing missions with Costal Command had won life against long odds. The RAF…
wisely and justly did its best to keep such people off operations for a year or so. This text forms the author's account of the war in Burma. 1984.