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Significant incident: Canada's army, the Airborne, and the murder in Somalia
By David Jay Bercuson. 1996
Historian David Bercuson explores the problems in the Canadian Armed Forces which have been exposed in the wake of the…
murder of Shidane Arone in Somalia at the hands of Canadian soldiers. Bercuson discusses the recent history and changes within the army, how this has affected what its soldiers do, and how this resulted in the problems of the Somalia mission and made Arone's death possible. 1996.Follows the Canadian fighting forces during the battles of Vimy Ridge, Hill 70, Passchendaele, and the Hundred Days campaign, through…
the eyes of the soldiers who fought and died in the trenches, and based on newly uncovered sources. The Canadian fighting forces never lost a battle during the final 2 years of the war, and although they paid a terrible price, they were indeed, as British Prime Minister David Lloyd George exclaimed, the shock troops of the Empire. Companion to "At the sharp end" (DC32639). Some descriptions of sex and descriptions of violence. 2009.Shake hands with the devil: the failure of humanity in Rwanda
By Roméo A Dallaire, Brent Beardsley. 2003
As former head of the 1993 U.N. peacekeeping mission in Rwanda, Canadian general Dallaire's initial proposal called for 5,000 soldiers,…
to permit orderly elections and the return of the refugees. Nothing like this number was supplied, and the result was an outright attempt at genocide against the Tutsis that nearly succeeded, with 800,000 dead over three months. Dallaire's argument that Rwanda-like situations are fires that can be put out with a small force if caught early enough will certainly draw debate, but the book documents in horrifying detail what happens when no serious effort is made. Explicit descriptions of violence. Winner of the 2004 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. Canada Reads 2012. 2003.Scapegoat!: famous court martials
By John Harris. 1988
In documented accounts ranging from the mid-18th century through World War II, Harris presents nine cases from British, French and…
American military history of scapegoats made to face a court martial. Through these controversial cases Harris paints a disturbing picture of the abuse of the court martial system. 1988.Sea to shining sea: people, travels, places
By Berton Roueché. 1985
The author presents 18 essays about his travels in the United States and Europe. The reader visits wheat-country Kansas, a…
isolated small-town New Mexican doctor, the last surviving Shakers of Mt. Lebanon, New York, as well as Switzerland, Italy, Belgium and France. Some strong language. 1985.During the pioneering years of the Canadian West, Mountie Sam Steele took an active role in virtually every significant historical…
event. Steele kept the peace in the Yukon during the Gold rush, quelled rebellions, stood down violent strikers, faced Cree, Blackfoot, and Kootenay warriors, and also fought in the Boer War and the First World War. 2003.Salt of the earth: the story of homesteaders in Western Canada
By Heather Robertson. 1974
The homesteaders who streamed to the Canadian West from 1880 to 1914 tell their own story of harshness, isolation, and…
back-breaking toil. Conveys a strong, sympathetic sense of the land and the people who settled in the Prairies. 1974.Samurai William: the adventurer who unlocked Japan
By Giles Milton. 2002
In the spring of 1611, London's merchants received an intriguing and wholly unexpected letter. Written by a marooned English mariner…
named William Adams, it revealed that he had been living in the unknown land of Japan for more than a decade. Seven adventurers were sent to Japan with orders to find and befriend Adams. It was believed he held the key to exploiting the opulent riches of this forbidden land. 2002.Sainte Marguerite Bourgeoys, de Montréal et de Troyes
By Moïse Blatrix. 1982
Sacrés Américains!: nous, les Yankees, on est comme ça
By Ted Stanger. 2004
Rogue warrior of the SAS: the Blair Mayne legend
By Martin Dillon, Roy Bradford. 2003
Half a century after his death, Lt Col. Robert Blair Mayne is still regarded as one of the greatest soldiers…
in the history of military special operations. He was the most decorated British soldier of the Second World War, receiving four DSOs, the Croix de Guerre and the Légion d'honneur, and he pioneered tactics used today by the SAS and other special operations units worldwide. Drawing on personal letters and family papers, declassified SAS files and records, together with the Official SAS Diary compiled in wartime and eyewitness accounts from many who served with him, the picture emerges of a soldier who, although a flawed hero, was unquestionably one of the most distinctive combatants of the campaigns in the Western Desert and Europe. 2003, c1987.Roosevelt and Churchill: men of secrets
By David Stafford. 1999
Explores the relationship between the United States president Franklin Roosevelt and the British prime minister Winston Churchill before and during…
the Second World War. Explains how the two leaders shared intelligence secrets, bribed Spain to remain neutral, and trusted each other despite conflicting postwar national interests. 1999.Rogue diamonds: the rush for northern riches on Dene land
By E Bielawski. 2003
Diamonds were first discovered on the Barren Grounds near Yellowknife in 1991. in 1996 Indian Affairs Minister Ron Irwin gave…
Canada's first diamond mine conditional approval, subject to "significant progress in sixty days" on agreements between various companies. Ellen Bielawski was there. 2003.Hertig asserts that both the American and Canadian governments are intentionally misleading their citizens about the Pentagon's unprecedented plans to…
weaponize space, about the new Russian and Chinese nuclear missile build-ups, and about the destruction of important, long-standing arms control agreements. Other topics covered are why the so-called U.S. missile "defence" system is really about establishing a U.S. first-strike-from-space capability, why both Paul Martin and Stephen Harper want to join in George W. Bush's program, and how all these factors may be leading to a rapidly increasing danger of a nuclear apocalypse. 2004.Rosa
By Nikki Giovanni. 2005
Account of Rosa Parks's decision to stay in her bus seat in 1955 Alabama, in defiance of segregation laws. Explains…
the resulting bus boycott by civil rights activists that led to the Supreme Court ruling ending racial segregation on buses. Grades 3-6. Coretta Scott King Award, Caldecott Honor. 2005.Roundup at the Double Diamond: the American cowboy today
By William Surface. 1974
A rugged on-the-scene account of one roundup season on an immense ranch in western Texas. Captures the cowboy's speech, the…
dust and dangers, and the camaraderie of the veteran foreman with his mixed gang of old-time cowboys. 1974.Rodolphe et les secrets de Mayerling
By Jean Des Cars. 2004
A l'aube du 30 janvier 1889, dans le pavillon de chasse de Mayerling, aux environs de Vienne, on découvre le…
corps de l'archiduc héritier d'Autriche-Hongrie, Rodolphe de Habsbourg, l'unique fils de Sissi et de François-Joseph - et celui d'une jeune fille de 17 ans, Mary Vetsera. Immédiatement, les plus folles rumeurs circulent. Laborieusement, la Cour impériale tente d'accréditer la thèse du suicide. Pendant près d'un siècle, cette version "officielle ", fut imposée. Face aux doutes et aux contradictions relevées, le silence l'emporta. En 1982, à la veille de son retour à Vienne, l'impératrice et reine Zita, dernière souveraine d'Autriche-Hongrie, livre à Jean des Cars des révélations spectaculaires qui ébranlent la thèse d'un amour maudit et remettent en question les rares certitudes de l'affaire. La rigoureuse contre-enquête de Jean des Cars démontre, d'une manière implacable, que la vérité pourrait être fort différente. 2004.Robert Borden (The Canadians)
By Kathleen Saunders. 1978
River runners of the Grand Canyon
By David Sievert Lavender. 1985
A lively history of the first men and women to run the wild Colorado River through the Grand Canyon in…
crude wooden boats, rafts, kayaks, pontoons and motorboats. Some strong language. 1985.Riel: a life of revolution
By Maggie Siggins. 1994
Siggins makes extensive use of Riel's personal writing, including his diaries and poetry, in an attempt to understand the man…
behind one of the most controversial incidents in Canadian history. Arguing that Riel was executed because he was an obstacle to land development in the West, Siggins investigates Riel's character, relationships, and the history of the West which resulted in the North West Rebellion. 1994.