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To end all wars: a story of loyalty and rebellion, 1914-1918
Par Adam Hochschild. 2011
Hochschild focuses on the long-ignored moral drama of the war's critics, alongside its generals and heroes. Thrown in jail for…
their opposition to the war were Britain's leading investigative journalist, a future winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, and an editor who, behind bars, published a newspaper for his fellow inmates on toilet paper. These critics were sometimes intimately connected to their enemy hawks: one of Britain's most prominent women pacifist campaigners had a brother who was commander in chief on the Western Front. Today, hundreds of military cemeteries spread across the fields of northern France and Belgium contain the bodies of millions of men who died in the "war to end all wars." Can we ever avoid repeating history? 2011.Tin-pots and pirate ships: Canadian naval forces and German sea raiders, 1880-1918
Par Michael L Hadley, Roger F Sarty. 1991
The authors chart the origins of the Canadian Navy from the late 1800's to the end of World War One.…
Known as "The Bum Boat Fleet", the 200 ships, fisheries cruisers and private yachts reflected both Canada's real need for a navy in the face of the German imperialist threat, and Britain's reluctance to send much help. Tin Pots and Pirate Ships reveals the Canadian tradition of building a fleet only when needed, dismantling it once the conflict is over, and ultimately accepting terms dictated by alliance partners. c1991.The third battle of Ypres, culminating in a desperate struggle for the ridge and little village of Passchendaele, was one…
of the most appalling campaigns in the First World War. In this book, the author lets over 600 participants speak for themselves. A million Tommies, Canadians and Anzacs assembled at the Ypres Salient in the summer of 1917, mostly raw young troops keen to do their bit for King and Country. 1983.The Zimmermann telegram
Par Barbara Wertheim Tuchman. 1981
The intercept of the Zimmermann telegram was received in British Intelligence offices on January 17, 1917. With proposals of a…
German-backed Mexican invasion of the United States, this could be the fuse that launches America into the war. 1981.The Vimy trap or, how we learned to stop worrying and love the Great War: Or, How We Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Great War
Par Jamie Swift, Ian McKay. 2016
The story of the bloody 1917 Battle of Vimy Ridge is, according to many of today's tellings, a heroic founding…
moment for Canada. This noble, birth-of-a-nation narrative is regularly applied to the Great War in general. Yet this mythical tale is rather new. "Vimyism"--today's official story of glorious, martial patriotism--contrasts sharply with the complex ways in which veterans, artists, clerics, and even politicians who had supported the war interpreted its meaning over the decades. Was the Great War a futile imperial debacle? A proud, nation-building milestone? Explains both how and why peace and war remain contested terrain in ever-changing landscapes of Canadian memory. 2016.The suicide battalion
Par James L McWilliams, R. J Steel. 1978
This extract from the official report of the 46th Canadian infantry battalion (South Saskatchewan) after the battle of Passchendaele gives…
an indication of why the 46th called itself "The Suicide Battalion." 1978.The sleepwalkers: how Europe went to war in 1914
Par Christopher M Clark. 2012
Drawing on new scholarship, Clark offers a fresh look at World War I, focusing on the complex events and relationships…
that led a group of well-meaning leaders into brutal conflict. He traces the paths to war in a gripping narrative that examines the decades of history that informed the events of 1914, and details the mutual misunderstandings and unintended signals that drove the crisis forward in a few short weeks. Bestseller. 2013.The second line of defense: American women and World War I
Par Lynn Dumenil. 2017
In tracing the rise of the modern idea of the American "new woman," Lynn Dumenil examines World War I's surprising…
impact on women and, in turn, women's impact on the war. Telling the stories of a diverse group of women, including African Americans, dissidents, pacifists, reformers, and industrial workers, Dumenil explores both the roadblocks and opportunities they faced. By using a gendered approach to the war, she offers a complex rendering of the ways in which the United States mobilized for the coming battle and how American women helped support the largest military endeavour in the nation's history. Arguing that in contrast to prevailing notions that military service defines citizenship, Dumenil shows how women activists staked their claim to loyal citizenship by framing women's war work as industrial workers, home-front volunteers, overseas nurses, and support personnel as "the second line of defense." 2017.The rise and fall of the dinosaurs: a new history of a lost world
Par Stephen Brusatte. 2018
Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth's most fearsome and spectacular creatures vanished. Today their extraordinary true story remains one of…
our planet's great mysteries. In this stunning narrative spanning more than 200 million years, Steve Brusatte, a young American paleontologist who has emerged as one of the foremost stars of the field--discovering ten new species and leading groundbreaking scientific studies and fieldwork--masterfully tells the complete, surprising, and new history of the dinosaurs. 2018.The origins of the First World War (Origins Of Modern Wars Ser.)
Par James Joll. 1984
James Joll re-examines the events of that fateful summer of 1914. His themes include strategic planning and the arms race,…
the pressures of domestic politics, and the cultural and psychological atmosphere of 1914. He relates these factors to the decisions taken at the time, and shows how each affected the policies of the belligerent powers. 1984.Sir Sam Hughes - Minister of Militia and Defence from 1911 until his dismissal in 1916 - is remembered as…
abrasive and unstable, while Sir Arthur Currie, a part-time soldier who rose to command the Canadian Corps in France and Belgium, is remembered as one of the most effective generals of the war and a national hero. But initially, Hughes drove the nation toward a war footing and fought to keep Canadian troops from being parceled out to the British, while Currie embezzled regimental funds, never connected with his soldiers, and was accused of wantonly squandering the lives of 60,000 Canadians on the road to victory. c2010.The knock at the door: a journey through the darkness of the Armenian genocide
Par Margaret Ajemian Ahnert. 2007
Amid the chaos and violence of World War I, attacks began against the supposedly disloyal minority Armenian population within the…
Ottoman Empire. By the end of the war, high-end estimates place the death toll of Armenians at more than one million due to executions and deportations. Ahnert interviewed her 98-year-old mother, Ester, a survivor of the massacres, and intertwined her mother's recollections of the period with her own memories. Some descriptions of sex and violence. 2007.The inheritance of shame: a memoir
Par Peter Gajdics. 2017
Author Peter Gajdics spent six years in a bizarre form of conversion therapy that attempted to “cure” him of his…
homosexuality. Kept with other patients in a cult-like home in British Columbia, Canada, Gajdics was under the authority of a rogue psychiatrist who controlled his patients, in part, by creating and exploiting a false sense of family. Juxtaposed against his parents’ tormented past--his mother’s incarceration and escape from a communist concentration camp in post-World War II Yugoslavia, and his father’s upbringing as an orphan in war-torn Hungary--Gajdics explores the universal themes of childhood trauma, oppression, and intergenerational pain. 2017.The human story: where we come from and how we evolved
Par Charles Lockwood. 2007
This book is a guide to man's ancestors, from the earliest hominids such as Sahelanthropus, dating back 6-7 million years,…
through to our own species, Homo sapiens. Over the past twenty years there has been an explosion of species' names in the story of human evolution, due both to new discoveries and to a growing understanding of the diversity that existed in the past. Drawing on this new information the author explains what each of the key species represents and how it contributes to our knowledge of human evolution. He describes the main sites, the individual fossils, the people and stories involved in the key discoveries and the basic facts about each species - what it looked like, how and when it lived and what it ate as well as explaining how we know all this. 2007.Ike's mystery man: the secret lives of Robert Cutler
Par Peter Shinkle. 2018
This Cold War narrative takes listeners from top secret Cabinet Room meetings to exclusive social clubs, and into the pages…
of a powerful man's intimate diary to bring new dimension to our understanding of the inner workings of the Eisenhower White House. 2018.In search of pure lust: a memoir
Par Lise Weil. 2018
When Lise Weil came out in 1976, lesbian desire was the pulsing center of an entire way of life, a…
culture, a movement. The air throbbed with possibility. But after fifteen years of torrid but ultimately failed relationships, Weil had to admit that desire was also a conduit for childhood wounds--and it tended to trump love, over and over again. When a friend invited her to attend a Zen retreat in the mid-'80s, she was desperate enough to say yes. Her first day of sitting zazen was mostly hell--but, smitten with the (female) roshi, she stuck with it. Ultimately, the dive into Zen practice became a turning point in her quest for love. 2018.The Polar Bear Expedition: the heroes of America's forgotten invasion of Russia, 1918-1919
Par James Carl Nelson. 2019
In August 1918, the 339th regiment of the US Army-roughly 5,000 soldiers, most hailing from Michigan-sailed for Europe to fight…
in World War I. But instead of the Western Front, these troops were headed to Archangel, Russia, a vital port city 1,000 miles northeast of Moscow. There, in the frozen subarctic, amid the chaos of the Russian Civil War, one of the most extraordinary episodes of American history unfolded. 2019.Jimmy Neurosis: a memoir
Par James Oseland. 2019
Before James Oseland was a judge on Top Chef Masters, he was a teenage rebel growing up in the California…
suburbs. Diving headfirst into the churning mayhem of punk, he renamed himself Jimmy Neurosis and journeyed into a vibrant underground world of visionary musicians and artists. With humor and verve, Oseland brings to life the effervescent cocktail of music, art, drugs, and sexual adventure that characterized the end of the seventies. Through his account of how creativity saved his life, he tells a thrilling and uniquely American coming-of-age story. 2019.Coronel and the Falklands (British Battle series)
Par Geoffrey Bennett. 1962
Fire on earth: doomsday, dinosaurs, and humankind
Par John R Gribbin. 1996
British science writers provide an overview on how interstellar collisions and meteoroidal impacts have shaped life on earth, beginning with…
the dinosaurs. They discuss different technologies that could be used in the future to prevent a calamitous collision between the Earth and an asteroid. 1996.