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Jouer avec le feu: Armand Vaillancourt, sculpteur engagé
Par John K Grande, Monique Crépault. 2001
Première biographie consacrée à un sculpteur de réputation internationale et activiste engagé, Armand Vaillancourt. L'auteur retrace les principaux événements qui…
ont ponctué la carrière du légendaire artiste, et reconstitue le contexte de ses principales oeuvres. 2001. Titre uniforme: Playing with fire.Marqués du triangle rose
Par Ken Setterington, Daoud Najm. 2018
Avant les années 1930, l'Allemagne, et en particulier sa capitale, Berlin, était l'un des endroits les plus tolérants envers les…
homosexuels. Des militants comme Thomas Mann et Albert Einstein ont ouvertement milité pour les droits des gais. Mais tout cela change quand le Parti nazi arrive au pouvoir. La vie des homosexuels devient alors rapidement un enfer : raids, arrestations, emprisonnement et expulsions deviennent monnaie courante. Lorsque les camps de concentration sont construits, les homosexuels sont emprisonnés en même temps que les autres groupes que les nazis veulent supprimer. Le triangle rose, cousu sur les uniformes des camps, devient ainsi le symbole de la persécution des homosexuels, une persécution qui continuera pendant de nombreuses années après la guerre. 2018. Titre uniforme: Branded by the pink triangle.Jardins et jardiniers laurentiens, 1660-1800: creuse la terre, creuse le temps
Par Jean-Pierre Hardy. 2016
" Dans les colonies, et à plus forte raison dans un pays où la végétation est en dormance une bonne…
moitié de l'année, l'alimentation est une préoccupation constante. Dans ce contexte, un potager devient vite une nécessité. Alors que certains sont gérés par leur propriétaire, d'autres sont confiés à l'expertise et aux soins de jardiniers de métier. Jean-Pierre Hardy retrace l'origine de ces derniers et évalue leur formation, leur équipement, leurs techniques horticoles, leurs conditions de travail et leur niveau de vie. Les potagers sont-ils aussi nombreux qu'on le dit? Que produit-on et quels sont les légumes préférés? Le potager répond-il aux besoins d'une maisonnée et à combien peut-on l'évaluer? Jardins et jardiniers laurentiens fait le point sur les potagers et les jardiniers des principales villes de la vallée du Saint-Laurent entre 1660 et 1800. "Bacque investigates the treatment received by German POWs following the end of World War II. Bacque alleges that hundreds of…
thousands of German prisoners were stripped of their rights under the Geneva Convention, and died of starvation and preventable diseases or were used as slave labour by the French. 1989.Le régiment de Maisonneuve vers la victoire, 1944-1945
Par Gérard Marchand. 1980
Voici le récit des péripéties vécues par les soldats du Régiment de Maisonneuve durant la phase la plus meurtrière de…
la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Vous revivrez de l'intérieur les drames et les joies de ces combattants dont la vie ne tenait qu'à un fil. 1980.Un jardinier offre un bouquet à un promeneur inconnu qui accepte de visiter son jardin. Ce bouquet est composé de…
divers sujets de réflexion: les valeurs où s'implante notre existence, le sens des expériences multiples qui jalonnent notre destinée, les questions qui motivent nos quêtes. 1997.Ordinary men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
Par Christopher R Browning. 2017
The true story of Reserve Police Battalion 101 of the German Order Police, which was responsible for mass shootings as…
well as round-ups of Jewish people for deportation to Nazi death camps in Poland in 1942. Browning argues that most of the men of RPB 101 were not fanatical Nazis but, rather, ordinary middle-aged, working-class men who committed these atrocities out of a mixture of motives, including the group dynamics of conformity, deference to authority, role adaptation, and the altering of moral norms to justify their actions. Very quickly three groups emerged within the battalion: a core of eager killers, a plurality who carried out their duties reliably but without initiative, and a small minority who evaded participation in the acts of killing without diminishing the murderous efficiency of the battalion whatsoever. 2017.Operation Paperclip: the secret intelligence program that brought Nazi scientists to America
Par Annie Jacobsen. 2014
Annie Jacobsen pulls the curtain back on one of the most complex and nefarious government secrets of the twentieth century,…
when the US government secretly allowed some of the Third Reich's most brilliant scientific minds to work in this country without the public's knowledge. 2014.Operation Mincemeat: the true spy story that changed the course of World War II
Par Ben Macintyre. 2010
Operation Mincemeat was the most successful wartime deception ever attempted, and certainly the strangest. It hoodwinked the Nazi espionage chiefs,…
sent German troops hurtling in the wrong direction, and saved thousands of lives by deploying a secret agent who was different, in one crucial respect, from any spy before or since: he was dead. Ben Macintyre weaves together private documents, photographs, memories, letters and diaries, as well as newly released material from the intelligence files of MI5 and Naval Intelligence, to tell for the first time the full story. 2010.Open your hearts: the story of the Jewish war orphans in Canada
Par Fraidie Martz. 1996
From 1947 to 1949, the Canadian government reluctantly allowed 1,123 children, survivors of the Holocaust, into the country. Drawing on…
archival materials, memoirs, interviews and diaries, it describes how these young people, though traumatized by their war-time experiences, flourished in the care of their community and became productive citizens. Their stories also may hold lessons for current Canadian immigration policy.One woman's war: a Canadian reporter with the Free French
Par Gladys Arnold. 1987
The author was the Paris correspondent for Canadian Press during the first part of World War II. She was the…
only Canadian reporter to experience the invasion of France by the Germans in 1940. She returned to Canada in 1941 to work for the cause of the Free French. 1987.One day in August: the untold story behind Canada's tragedy at Dieppe
Par David R O'Keefe. 2013
For seven decades, the objective for the Dieppe raid has been one of the most perplexing mysteries of World War…
II. After almost two decades of research, David O’Keefe skillfully pieces together the story like a jigsaw puzzle to reveal the prime reason behind the raid: a highly secret mission designed, in one of Britain’s darkest times, to redress the balance of the war. c2013.The Liberation Campaign for Holland, a series of fierce battles during the last three months of the war, was bittersweet…
- a nation's freedom was won and the war concluded, but the fighting cost Canada over 6,000 casualties. Drawing upon official records and veteran memories, Zuehlke brings to life this concluding chapter in the story of Canada in World War II. Explicit descriptions of violence and strong language. Bestseller. 2010. (Canadian Battle Series)On the triangle run
Par James Barrett Lamb. 1986
Lamb tells the story of our navy's battles in the waters off Canada's coasts during World War II. The navy…
struggled against the fearsome elements of the North Atlantic as well as the dreaded German U-boats. 1986.O'Keefe and Stieglitz: an American romance
Par Benita Eisler. 1991
This dual biography chronicles the 30-year relationship between photographer/gallery owner Alfred Stieglitz and painter Georgia O'Keeffe. Twenty-three years older than…
Georgia, Alfred introduced her into his exclusive New York art circle and acted as her dealer while she often posed as his model. They married in 1924. 1991.Le camp des femmes: Ravensbruck (Collection Dossiers et documents)
Par Christian Bernadac. 1980
Ravensbruck est unique. Seul camp de concentration réservé aux femmes, il fut un enclos de travail et d'extermination pour des…
dizaines de milliers de femmes. L'auteur a préféré laisser la parole à celles qui furent les personnages réels de cette monstrueuse tragédie de l'histoire, les déportées. Quelques descriptions de violence. 1980.Norval Morrisseau: man changing into thunderbird
Par Armand Garnet Ruffo. 2014
Norval Morrisseau (1932–2007), Ojibway shaman-artist, drew his first sketches at age six in the sand on the shores of Lake…
Nipigon. By the end of his tumultuous life, the prolific self-taught artist was sought by collectors, imitated by forgers and received the Order of Canada. Ruffo evokes the artist's life from childhood to death, including his breakthrough exhibition at the Pollock Gallery in Toronto; his heartwrenching battle with alcoholism, then Parkinson's disease; and exultant "Shaman's Return" to national status in the Canadian art scene and his solo show at The National Gallery of Canada. Ruffo also draws upon his own Ojibway heritage and experiences to provide insight into Morrisseau’s life and iconography from an Ojibway perspective. 2014.Northern light: the enduring mystery of Tom Thomson and the woman who loved him
Par Roy MacGregor. 2010
The author re-examines the mysteries of Tom Thomson's life, loves and violent death in the definitive non-fiction account. Why does…
a man who died almost a century ago and painted relatively little still have such a grip on our imagination? 2010.North Atlantic run: the Royal Canadian Navy and the battle for the convoys
Par Marc Milner. 1985
Night witches: the untold story of Soviet women in combat
Par Bruce Myles. 1990
In 1941, as the Nazi hordes swept eastward into the Soviet Union, the desperate call went out for female volunteers…
to join the Russian air force. Making up three regiments, the lives, exploits, loves and fears of these women are captured here - the pilots whom the Germans came to dread as the "Night witches". 1990.