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Three wishes: Palestinian and Israeli children speak
By Deborah Ellis. 2004
Growing up apart in a world of bombs, bullets, removals, checkpoints, and curfews, 20 Israeli and Palestinian young people talk…
about how the situation has affected them. The reactions range from traumatized, angry, hateful, and despairing, to hopeful and brave. The wide range of voices shows the connections between warring neighbours despite the distances that separate them. Grades 5-8 and older readers. 2004.Ann and Seamus
By Kevin Major. 2003
In 1828, off Isle aux Morts, Newfoundland, 17-year-old Ann Harvey, her fisherman father and younger brother came upon the wreck…
of the Despatch, an Irish immigrant ship. Ann's courage and strength at the oars of the rescue boat were largely responsible for the saving of more than 160 passengers stranded amid the raging storm. In this poetic retelling, the author portrays the shy young woman thrust into extraordinary circumstances. For junior and senior high readers. 2003.Divisions on a ground: essays on Canadian culture
By Northrop Frye, James Polk. 1982
A child's day (Historic communities)
By Bobbie Kalman. 1994
Between waking up in the morning and going to bed at night, pioneer children John and Emily enjoy a full…
day of simple pleasures and hard work. We watch them go to school, do their chores, celebrate a birthday, and attend a country fair. At every turn, we learn what they wear, what they eat, what stories they read, and what toys they play with. Grades 3-6. 1994.Fort life (Historic communities.)
By Bobbie Kalman, David Schimpky. 1994
Near the end of the fourteenth century, the countryside around Rodez, in South-Central France, was ravaged by marauding English bands…
during the Hundred Years War. Peyre Marques is a merchant who forgets where he has buried his gold. When, in 1370, two workmen discover a hoard of coins while unblocking a drain, Marques's pathetic situation highlights the history of the town against a background of compassion and brutality.How the cold war began: the Gouzenko affair and the hunt for Soviet spies
By Amy W Knight. 2005
Just weeks after World War II had ended, a cipher clerk named Igor Gouzenko walked out of the Soviet Embassy…
in Ottawa with secret papers stuffed under his shirt. His defection sent shockwaves through Washington, London, Moscow, and Ottawa, as the smuggled documents suggested that agents in North America were feeding atomic secrets to Moscow. The Cold War had truly begun. 2005.They fight like soldiers, they die like children: the global quest to eradicate the use of child soldiers
By Jessica Dee Humphreys, Roméo A Dallaire. 2010
In conflicts around the world, there is an increasingly popular weapon system that requires negligible technology, is simple to sustain,…
has unlimited versatility and incredible capacity for both loyalty and barbarism - children. Believing that no one should tolerate a child being used in this fashion, Dallaire has made it his mission to end the use of child soldiers. He provides an introduction to the phenomenon, as well as solutions to eradicate it. Explicit descriptions of violence. c2010.Istanbul: a tale of three cities
By Bettany Hughes. 2017
For much of its history it was known simply as The City, but Istanbul is not just a city, but…
a story. From the Qu'ran to Shakespeare, this city with three names - Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul - resonates as an idea and a place, and overspills its real and imagined boundaries. Based on meticulous research and new archaeological evidence, this is a captivating portrait of the momentous life of Istanbul. 2017.Hadrian: the restless emperor (Roman Imperial Biographies Ser.)
By Anthony Richard Birley. 1998
Hadrian's reign (AD 117-138) was a watershed in the history of the Roman Empire. In this text the author brings…
together the evidence from inscriptions and papyri, and up to date and in-depth examination of the work of other scholars on aspects of Hadrian's reign and policies such as the Jewish war, the coinage, and Hadrian's building programme in Rome, Athens and Tivoli. 1998.Walking since daybreak: a story of Eastern Europe, World War II, and the heart of our century
By Modris Eksteins. 1999
Eksteins draws on his own family's story to illustrate the history of Latvia and the surrounding Baltic nations before, during…
and after World War Two. He discusses the effect that being squeezed between Russia and Germany has had on the country, the impact of the Russian revolution and the two world wars, and his own family's decision to immigrate to Canada.The Iraq invasion of 2003 was only the latest in a long line of episodes of Western manipulation in that…
country, which owes its existence - and its complex and troubled demographics - to the designs of British imperialists. The brunt of Lando's argument is that the U.S. has routinely played Iraq for profit and strategic advantage yet consistently evaded responsibility for exacerbating the carnage of its destructive wars and humanitarian crises. Descriptions of violence and strong language. 2007.The rescue of Jerusalem: the alliance between Hebrews and Africans in 701 BC
By Henry T Aubin. 2002
In 701 BC, Assyria's powerful army laid siege to Jerusalem, after already pillaging forty-six Judean towns and cities -- but…
something happened. Instead of completing the attack, the invaders hastily abandoned their siege works, leaving the City of David intact. The Bible credits divine intervention, modern scholars cite a plague, but the author concludes that in the eighth century BC an Egyptian Pharaoh dispatched an army of Kushites, black Africans like himself, to do battle with the Assyrians. 2002.Inside the Alamo
By Jim Murphy. 2003
An overview of the struggle between the Texan settlers and Mexico's General Santa Anna for control of Texas, with a…
detailed description of the 1836 siege of the Alamo. The author's inside book separates fact from fiction as often as possible. For junior and senior high readers. 2003.Britain in the first millennium (Britain and Europe)
By Edward James. 2001
The first millennium in British history, a period framed by two invasions and conquests from across the Channel, is portrayed…
in this account. It covers the entire first millennium - or what might be called the "long" first millennium, from the middle of the first century BC until near the end of the eleventh century AD. The whole of Britain is studied, in its full European context, rather than as a self-sufficient island. 2001.Royal: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
By Robert Lacey. 2002
"Royal" is a celebration and analysis of Britain's monarchy - an explanation of why most people feel good about The…
Queen and why it is okay to feel that way - tracing the evolution of monarchy's alliance with popular culture which is both its strength and weakness today. The book looks at these dramas along with the turning points in Britain's recent history from the point of view of the Queen herself, showing how she felt and what she believes.The last governor: Chris Patten and the hand over of Hong Kong
By Jonathan Dimbleby. 2000
Children of Cambodia's killing fields: memoirs by survivors
By Dith Pran, Kim DePaul. 1997
The long weekend: life in the English country house between the wars
By Adrian Tinniswood. 2016
Life in the English country house during the 1920s and 1930s was by turns opulent and ordinary, noble and vicious.…
In 'The Long Weekend', Adrian Tinniswood uncovers the truth about a world half-forgotten, draped in myth and hidden behind stiff upper lips. Drawing on hundreds of memoirs, on unpublished letters and diaries, on the eye-witness testimonies of belted earls and unhappy heiresses and bullying butlers, 'The Long Weekend' gives a voice to the people who inhabited this world. 2016.The prince of the marshes: and other occupational hazards of a year in Iraq
By Rory Stewart. 2006
British diplomat and author of "The Places In Between" describes his 2003 postwar work as deputy governor in the marshlands…
of southern Iraq. Details the hazards of keeping the peace among the Shia warlords while trying to rebuild the infrastructure. Strong language and some violence. 2006.