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The ghosts of Medak Pocket: the story of Canada's secret war
By Carol Off. 2004
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.The geometry of love: space, time, mystery, and meaning in an ordinary church
By Margaret Visser. 2000
This book features the church of Sant'Agnese fuori le Mura in Rome as its subject. The author takes readers on…
a journey through time and space, beginning with the modern church and the community that uses it. She discusses the history, theology, art history and technology, hagiography, folklore and iconography expressed in this 7th century building. 2000.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.The bloody red hand: a journey through truth, myth and terror in Northern Ireland
By Derek Lundy. 2006
Author Derek Lundy, bearing in mind that the name "Lundy" is synonymous with traitor in Ulster, delves into the lives…
of ancestors Robert Lundy, Protestant governor of Derry in 1688, William Steel Dickson, a Protestant preacher of the early 19th century who advocated resisting the English, and Billy Lundy, born in 1890 and the embodiment of what the Ulster Protestants became - a tribe united in their hostility to Catholics and to the prospect of an independent Ireland. 2006.Red cloud at dawn: Truman, Stalin, and the end of the atomic monopoly
By Michael D Gordin. 2009
On August 29, 1949, the first Soviet test bomb, dubbed "First Lightning", exploded in the deserts of Kazakhstan. This surprising…
international event marked the beginning of an arms race that would ultimately lead to nuclear proliferation beyond the Soviet Union and the United States. Using newly opened archives, Gordin follows a trail of espionage, secrecy, deception, political brinksmanship, and technical innovation to provide a fresh understanding of the nuclear arms race. 2009.Paris 1919: six months that changed the world
By Margaret MacMillan. 2001
Analyzes the failure of the Versailles Peace Conference after World War I. Focuses on the nationalistic goals of American president…
Woodrow Wilson, French premier Georges Clemenceau, and British Prime Minister David Lloyd George - the author's great-grandfather - as they reorganized the defeated empires and created the League of Nations. Foreword by Richard Holbrooke. Bestseller. Winner of the 2003 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. Canada Reads 2012. 2001. Uniform title: PeacemakersL'Iran: des Perses à nos jours ((Pluriel).)
By Pierre Briant, Leili Anvar, Pierre Blanchet. 2012
" L'Iran actuel éclipse une civilisation millénaire, l'une des plus anciennes et des plus brillantes du Proche-Orient, l'Empire perse, dont…
le Shah Reza Pahlavi faisait encore un modèle dans les années 1970 : les Empires perses. Ce livre est l'occasion d'interroger les continuités et les ruptures d'un Orient qui ne vit pas uniquement au rythme de la religion chiite. Jadis, en effet, les Perses étaient considérés comme les Barbares par excellence et les Grecs, comme les Romains, les ont combattus en les regardant tels des sauvages gouvernés par des despotes. Pourtant, la culture perse s'est montrée d'une rare richesse et d'une grande tolérance. N'est-ce pas là que le monde juif puisa une partie de ses traditions et de ses coutumes ? N'est-ce pas aussi dans l'Empire perse que trouvaient refuge les bannis des cités grecques ?Quand le pays de Zarathoustra se convertit à l'islam, cet Orient change en profondeur. Il prend les allures d'un concurrent d'un genre nouveau pour le monde occidental, qui le regarde aujourd'hui avec une terrible angoisse, celle de voir une théocratie se doter de l'arme nucléaire. " -- 4e de couv.Le roman de Pékin (Le roman des lieux et destins magiques)
By Bernard Brizay. 2008
Pour les Chinois, comme pour les Occidentaux, jamais capitale n'a autant mérité le statut de ville mythique. Résidence du Fils…
du Ciel, capitale administrative, culturelle et religieuse du plus vieux, du plus peuplé et du plus grand empire au monde, Pékin et la Cité pourpre interdite où vivait l'empereur, entouré de ses concubines et de ses eunuques, fait toujours fantasmer. Le palais impérial est resté pendant cinq cents ans le centre sacré de l'Empire, le siège du gouvernement, où s'est écrite la grande histoire, celle de la Chine. Et la petite histoire, car la Cité interdite fut aussi le lieu privilégié d'intrigues, de drames et de crimes. 2008.Histoires de croisades ((Champs. Histoire ; 960).)
By Alessandro Barbero, Jean-Marc Mandosio. 2010
" C'est donc ainsi que commencent les croisades, c'est-à-dire l'aventure de ces chrétiens qui ont entendu l'appel du pape, en…
sont restés fascinés et se sont engagés dans une entreprise qu'avec nos valeurs d'aujourd'hui nous jugeons assez discutable, mais qui pour eux était sacro-sainte : ils partent pour Jérusalem, à pied, en se taillant un chemin par la force, et prennent la ville. C'est la première croisade ; mais il y en aura ensuite beaucoup d'autres. Car les musulmans, de leur côté, ne restent pas inertes à la vue d'une horde de barbares sanguinaires venus on ne sait d'où - mécréants, qui plus est -, entrant en terre d'Islam, semant la destruction et venant conquérir une de leurs villes saintes. Ils ont évidemment ressenti comme une grande offense le fait que ces mécréants d'Occident se soient emparés de Jérusalem et du tombeau du Christ. Le monde islamique se mobilise donc aussitôt pour reconquérir la Ville sainte et chasser les envahisseurs. Voilà pourquoi la chute de Jérusalem en 1099 est suivie par deux siècles de croisades. " Titre uniforme: Benedette guerre : Crociate e Jihad.Imperial reckoning: the untold story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
By Caroline Elkins. 2005
Recovers the lost history of the last days of British colonialism in Kenya. In the aftermath of World War II…
and the triumph of liberal democracy over fascism, the British detained and brutalised hundreds of thousands of Kikuyu - the colony's largest ethnic group - who had demanded their independence. Winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction. Explicit descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2005.Egg on Mao: the story of an ordinary man who defaced an icon and unmasked a dictatorship
By Denise Chong. 2009
On May 23, 1989, as student protests raged, Lu Decheng and two other men hurled 30 paint-filled eggs at the…
immense portrait of Mao Zedong that dominates Beijing's Tiananmen Square. His poli-art stunt stranded Lu in prison for almost a decade, cost him his wife and daughter, and led to his eventual defection to Canada. While hoping to bring true democracy and to unmask the repression of Mao's reign, Lu learned that in China, preserving the Chairman's legacy mattered more. 2009.Disarming Iraq
By Hans Blix. 2004
Blix reluctantly came out of retirement in 2000 to lead the U.N. weapons inspections team in Iraq because he was…
the only man everyone could agree on for the job. Three years later, those clamouring for military intervention grumbled at his inability (or, as they saw it, refusal) to present evidence of weapons of mass destruction, but he reminds readers that his assignment was to assess and report on the available evidence. A play-by-play account of the months of diplomacy and inspection efforts leading up to the Iraq war. Some descriptions of violence. 2004.A time to die: the untold story of the Kursk tragedy
By Robert Moore. 2003
At 11:28 am on Saturday, August 12, 2000, Captain Gennady Lyachin was taking the Kursk, the pride of Russia's Northern…
fleet, through the last steps of firing a practice torpedo when it exploded, incinerating all seven men in the forward compartment. In order for the surviving 27 crew members to get out, it was a race against the clock. Some descriptions of violence. 2003.A people's tragedy: the Russian Revolution, 1891-1924
By Orlando Figes. 1997
Explores the early-twentieth-century revolution in Russia that led to the removal of Czar Nicholas II and the rise to power…
of Lenin's Bolsheviks. The author places the blame for the failure of the coup d'etat to achieve its social aims at the feet of both the government and the people. 1997.Tudor England (Shire living histories ; #3)
By Derek Wilson. 2010
The Tudor age was a time of massive social change in England, with expanding cities, increasing trade, and growing domestic…
stability after the Wars of the Roses. Derek Wilson offers insight into Tudor England up to the accession of Elizabeth I, revealing what it was really like to live in this period of great growth, and the differences between life in city and country, for both rich and poor. 2010.Reaping the whirlwind: the Taliban movement in Afghanistan
By Michael Griffin. 2001
Griffin chronicles the rise of the Taliban from their first appearance in 1994, examines their place in the context of…
Afghanistan's political instability, and discusses the significance of their brand of Islamic fundamentalism. 2001.Gulag: a history of the Soviet camps
By Anne Applebaum. 2003
Washington Post columnist documents the evolution of the Soviet Union's forced labour camp system - from its origins during the…
Bolshevik Revolution, expansion under Stalin, and its dissolution after the dictator's death. The chronicle also examines the lives of prisoners and the unique society they formed. Some descriptions of sex and violence. 2003.Bury me standing: the Gypsies and their journey
By Isabel Fonseca. 1996
After the revolutions of 1989, Isabel Fonseca lived and travelled with the gypsies of Eastern Europe, sharing their daily lives,…
and recording their stories and their attempts to become something more than despised outsiders. She traces the gypsies from their exodus out of India, to their enslavement by the princes of medieval Romania, from their massacre by the Nazis, to their new violently contested presence in the political arena.The island of seven cities: the discovery of a lost Chinese settlement in the Americas
By Paul Chiasson. 2006
2002. Architect Paul Chiasson climbed a mountain on Cape Breton and found an old wide, well-made road, once flanked by…
walls. After two years of study, he believed that these ruins were originally built by the Chinese, as part of a large colony that thrived on Canadian shores well before the European Age of Discovery. Chiasson addresses how the colony was abandoned and forgotten except in the storytelling and culture of the Mi'kmaq, whose written language, clothing, technical knowledge, religious beliefs and legends expose deep cultural roots in China. 2006.