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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 circus at the edge of the earth: travels with the Great Wallenda Circus
By Charles Wilkins. 1998
The author travelled over three-thousand kilometres in Canada in order to get the inside story on life with a travelling…
circus. He vividly describes the seductive freedoms and horrific risks of traditional circus life. He also shares the lives of the circus performers and their motivations for becoming a member of a travelling troupe. 1998.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'homme qui marche
By Jean Béliveau, Géraldine Woessner. 2013
Après la faillite de son entreprise d'enseignes lumineuses, Jean Béliveau est parti sur un coup de têtele jour de ses…
quarante-cinq ans, le 18 août 2000, de Montréal. Il est rentré chez lui le 16 octobre 2011 après avoir parcouru 75 543 km à travers 64 pays. Il a réussi sans préparation à effectuer la plus longue marche ininterrompue autour du monde et celle-ci a été reconnue par l'Unesco dans le cadre de la décennie internationale dédiée à la paix pour les enfants. Durant ces onze années, le marcheur porte turban et grande barbe au Soudan, mange des insectes en Afrique, du chien en Corée et du serpent en Chine. Il dort sous les ponts, dans des foyers pour sans-abri, voire dans des prisons, mais la plupart du temps chez des gens séduits par son aventure. 2013.Au-delà des pyramides
By Douglas Kennedy, Bernard Cohen. 2010
Douglas Kennedy au pays des pharaons, ou comment un jeune auteur encore inconnu débarque en Égypte, il y a plus…
de vingt ans, bien décidé à éviter les pyramides, la croisière sur le Nil et autres classiques du voyage en Orient. D'Alexandrie à Assouan en auto-stop, de l'oasis de Siwa aux bidonvilles du Caire, une fascinante plongée dans l'envers du décor, où l'apprenti écrivain va multiplier les rencontres. Des confrontations hilarantes, des scènes cocasses pour les errances de cet Américain en terre musulmane. 2010. Titre uniforme: Beyond the pyramids.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.Fresh-air fiend: travel writings 1985-2000
By Paul Theroux. 2000
A collection of essays and articles written over a fifteen year period about the author's various experiences on five continents.…
In addition to the travel pieces, Theroux also includes his reminiscences, experiences as a kayaker and cyclist, readings from books of travel, profiles and appreciations of other writers, and works on the practices of other cultures. 2000.Abel's outback: explorations and misadventures on six continents, 1990-2000
By Allen J Abel. 2001
For many years, as a news correspondent, television host, and journalist, Allen Abel has travelled to some of the world's…
most fascinating, remote, or newsworthy spots to bring back his stories. This is a collection of travel pieces about his adventures on all six continents over a ten-year period. 2001.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.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.Fifty years of Europe: an album
By Jan Morris. 1997
This extraordinary assembly of reflections and observations on Europe in the second half of the 20th century is defined by…
its author as an album - a blank tablet on which anything can be recorded - and it is certainly a highly personal book. It takes the reader from evocations of megalithic religion to the sensations of barge travel on the Rhine; from the gloom of Warsaw during the Cold War to the weird euphoria of Albania in the 1990s.