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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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: Peacemakers
" 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Kennedy discusses the long history of relations between Scotland and its neighbour to the south, England. He tells the tales…
of Scotland's heroes and the battles they fought that have become part of Scotland's proud and sometimes painful past.
"Puisant dans ses archives historiques personnelles ou dans son imagination fertile (ainsi, l'interview de Cadet Rousselle ou l'histoire du docteur…
Mu), Guy Breton met en scène des personnages truculents. Au cours de ces morceaux choisis, on découvrira, par exemple, comment Henri III fut à l'origine des termes féminins "altesse" ou "majesté" ; comment on concevait la beauté, du Moyen Âge au XVIIIe siècle ; comment a été inventée la fourchette ; ou dans quelles circonstances George Sand mangeait des fraises dans un crâne..." -- 4e de couv.
"Le sens de la formule n'était-il pas la qualité première de Napoléon : "Impossible n'est pas français" ? Se souviendrait-on…
de la bataille de Fontenoy sans le fameux : "Messieurs les Anglais, tirez les premiers !" ? De l'histoire de France à l'histoire de la langue, il n'y a qu'un mot ! Ce petit dictionnaire décrypte des centaines d'épisodes qu'un mot bien senti a immortalisés". -- 4e de couv.
[] Exemples à l'appui, ce livre rappelle comment les médias ont broyé l'information du public tout au long des quinze…
dernières années - et continuent de le faire. Ce qu'il décrit, loin de constituer une collection d'exceptions, est devenu la règle ; pas un dérapage, la norme. -- 4e de couv.
"Jérusalem. Ville de la paix, selon la tradition biblique. Ville trois fois sainte. Cité des patriarches juifs, berceau du christianisme,…
lieu du voyage nocturne de Mahomet. Capitale pour deux peuples. Coeur du conflit israélo-palestinien. 1850. Endormie au fond d'une province de l'Empire ottoman, Jérusalem est une modeste cité levantine de 15 000 habitants. Juifs, musulmans, chrétiens grecs orthodoxes ou arméniens y vivent côte à côte dans leurs quartiers propres, derrière les remparts élevés par Soliman le Magnifique. 1917. La cité tombe aux mains des Britanniques. Londres promet l'établissement d'un Foyer national juif en Palestine. Trente ans plus tard, la bataille de Jérusalem précipite la ségrégation spatiale entre Juifs et Arabes. Jusqu'en 1967, deux Jérusalem vivent en se tournant le dos : Jérusalem-Ouest, la capitale de l'État d'Israël ; Jérusalem-Est, devenue jordanienne. Des dernières décennies de la domination ottomane à la guerre des Six jours, Catherine Nicault retrace l'histoire accidentée de la Ville sainte, et s'interroge sur les origines du divorce entre ses populations. Un ouvrage indispensable pour comprendre la genèse du conflit actuel". -- 4e de couv.