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Émerveillements
By Alain Stanké. 2021
Tour à tour journaliste, réalisateur, écrivain, éditeur, Alain Stanké a vécu mille vies et autant de rencontres. À l'aise avec…
les grands de ce monde tout autant qu'avec les quidams, sourire en coin, il a marqué des générations par des émissions placées sous le signe de l'humour. Pourtant, rien dans son parcours aux alluresglamourne laisse deviner ses débuts tragiques. C'est que l'homme, au regard tendre, ne s'est jamais départi de cette qualité qui manque cruellement à nos sociétés désabusées : l'émerveillementTrue north: the story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack
By Brenda Niall. 2012
Growing up in suburban Perth in the 1920s, the two Durack girls were fascinated by tales of the pioneering past…
of their father and grandfather overlanding from Queensland in the 1880s and setting up four vast cattle stations in the remote north. A year spent together on the stations in their early twenties ignited in the sisters a lifelong love of the Kimberley, along with a growing unease about the situation of the Aboriginal people employed there. Through war, love affairs, children and eventual old age, the Duracks continued to write and paint - their closely intertwined creative lives always shaped by the enduring power of the Kimberley region. With unprecedented access to hundreds of private family letters, unpublished memoirs, diaries and family papers, Brenda Niall gets to the heart of a uniquely Australian story that spans the twentieth century.Pozieres: the Anzac story
By Scott Bennett. 2011
In 1916, one million men fought in the first battle of the Somme. Victory hinged on their ability to capture…
a small village called Pozières, perched on the highest ridge of the battlefield. After five attempts to seize it, the British called in the Anzacs to complete this seemingly impossible task.At midnight on 23 July 1916, thousands of Australians stormed and took Pozières. Forty-five days later they were relieved, having suffered 23,000 casualties to gain a few miles of barren, lunar landscape. Despite the toll, the capture of Pozières was heralded as a stunning tactical victory. Yet for the exhausted survivors, the war-weary public, and the families of the dead and maimed, victory came at such terrible cost it seemed indistinguishable from defeat.This account tells the stories of those men who fought at Pozières. Drawing on their letters and diaries, it reveals a battlefield drenched in chaos, suffering, and fear. Bennett sheds light on the story behind the official history, showing how commanders struggled with a war conducted on an unprecedented scale and how the survivors witnessed appalling human tragedy to return home as heroes but, too often, shattered men.War on our doorstep: diaries of Australians at the frontline in 1942
By Gabrielle Chan. 2004
As the clock struck twelve to signal the start of 1942, Australians did not give the New Year their traditional…
noisy welcome. Regular events were cancelled, nightclub bookings were down and most people stayed in their blacked out homes. Clocks were put forward an hour for the start of daylight saving, as part of a war-time scheme to save power. All around the Pacific, Japan was making gains. They already occupied most of China; bombed Pearl Harbour, Guam and Wake; sunk the stars of the British naval fleet, the Prince of Wales and Repulse. They had landed in British Borneo, Hong Kong and the Philippines. This is the story of 1942, as told in first-hand accounts by the men and women in Australia and around the world.On the war-path: an anthology of Australian military travel
By Ronin Gerster, Peter Pierce. 2004
This important anthology reveals the many ways in which going to war has formed a cultural bridge between Australia and…
the world. From the Sudan in 1885 to Afghanistan in 2001, the connection of war to travel is illustrated in the observations of writers as varied as 'Banjo' Paterson, George Johnston, Nancy Wake, John Pilger, Lily Brett and Peter Weir. Selecting writings from combatants abroad as well as the reflections of sightseers who travel to foreign battlefields and war sites, Robin Gerster and Peter Pierce reveal how the experience of war has both broadened and refined (and sometimes distorted) Australian views of the world. The collection crosses the boundaries between literature, literary criticism, travel writing, war writing and cultural commentary.Harvest of fear: a history of Australia's Vietnam War
By John Murphy. 1993
This book looks at Australia's experience of the Vietnam War. It covers: social and political life in colonial and postcolonial…
Vietnam; Australian Cold War politics and the diplomacy that led us to Vietnam; and the impact of the Australian anti-war movement.The sleeping buddha: the story of Afghanistan through the eyes of one family
By Hamida Ghafour. 2007
In 2003, journalist Ghafour was sent to Afghanistan, which she had fled in 1981, to cover the country's reconstruction. In…
a place totally changed from the world her parents had described, she discovered a school which teaches women a new kind of independence, her cousin's determined parliamentary campaign, and the archaeologist digging for his country's lost civilization in the form of a giant sleeping Buddha. Some descriptions of violence. 2007.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.It's 1942 and Hitler's armies stand astride Europe like a colossus. Germany is winning on every front. This is the…
story of how one of the world's first commando units, put together for the invasion of Norway, helped turn the tide in Italy. Some strong language and descriptions of sex, descriptions of violence. 2005.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.Paget, an expert on sexuality and relationships, uses her taboo busting and groundbreaking research to help women maintain their sensuality…
and sexuality while dealing with changes in body, relationship, and lifestyle during and after pregnancy. All the questions women - and men - have regarding pregnancy and sex will finally be answered. Explicit descriptions of sex. 2004.War and the American presidency
By Arthur M Schlesinger. 2004
The gravest decision in a democracy is the one to go to war. In a book that brings a command…
of history to the most urgent of contemporary questions, the author explores the war in Iraq, the presidency, and the future of democracy. Describing unilateralism as "the oldest doctrine in American history," he nevertheless warns of the dangers posed by the fatal turn in U.S. policy from deterrence and containment to preventive war. 2004.Shadow child: an apprenticeship in love and loss
By Beth Powning. 2005
Like many young women, Beth Powning faced decisions of whether and when to start a family. At age twenty-four she…
became pregnant, but eleven days past her due date, she delivered a perfect, stillborn son. In this exploration of motherhood and loss, we're taken on a powerful journey into the heart of grief and renewal. National Bestseller. 2005.The righteous: the unsung heroes of the Holocaust
By Martin Gilbert. 2003
A collection of hundreds of stories of Gentiles who risked their lives to save Jews from deportation and death during…
the Holocaust. These people include the Greek Orthodox Princess Alice, who hid Jewish families in her Athens home; a Polish woman, "the Angel of Lvov," who worked closely with the Roman Catholic Church to obtain false baptism certificates; and Albanian and Bosnian Muslims, who disguised Jews to appear as members of their own families. Some descriptions of violence. 2003.The guns of Normandy: a soldier's eye view, France 1944
By George G Blackburn. 1995
Blackburn follows the Canadian Army through its landing on the Normandy beaches after the D-Day attacks, and to the battles…
at Falaise and Caen. Blackburn presents a detailed description of the lives of the Canadian soldiers who fought in the battles. Some strong language.Stormy weather: F.H. Varley, a biography
By Maria Tippett. 1998
This biography of the Group of Seven painter, Fred Varley, examines both his personal and professional lives. The effects of…
his drinking and womanizing on his family and his work are closely examined.The incredible War of 1812: a military history
By Donald E Graves, J. Mackay Hitsman. 1999
An account of the causes of the war of 1812 and of the campaigns and battles that raged on land…
and water, from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. Hitsman describes the life and role of the soldiers - both the regulars and the militia - and the difficulties of waging war in largely trackless territory, where rivers and lakes were the main means of transport. Some descriptions of violence. 1999.War: the new edition
By Gwynne Dyer. 2004
The history and nature of war shows that it has remained unchanged as an act of mass violence, applied against…
an enemy so that he will do what you want. But the collapse of the Iron Curtain has forced a re-examination: can we move beyond it through open access to the channels of mass communication? And if terrorism is a red herring designed to preserve the military status quo, are our traditional military structures still relevant? Descriptions of violence. Some strong language. 2004, c1985.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.Juno Beach: Canada's D-Day victory, June 6, 1944
By Mark Zuehlke. 2004
On June 6, 1944, the greatest armada in history stood off Normandy and the largest amphibious invasion ever began, as…
107,000 men aboard 6,000 ships attacked the French coast. Of the 18,000 Canadians involved in storming Juno Beach, one out of every six either died or was wounded, yet they were the only Allied troops to meet their objectives. Drawing on personal diaries as well as military records, the author depicts Canada's pivotal contribution to the most critical Allied battle of World War II. 2004.