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Catastrophe: Europe goes to war 1914
Par Max Hastings. 2013
In 'Catastrophe', Max Hastings answers how World War I could ever have begun. Ranging across Europe, from Paris to St.…
Petersburg, from kings to corporals, he traces how tensions across the continent kindled into a blaze of battles; not the stalemates of later trench-warfare, but battles of movement and dash where Napoleonic tactics met with weapons from a newly industrialised age. 2013.World War I: the Great War and the world it made
Par John Ramsden. 2004
In this course, Queen Mary University of London professor, John Ramsden, examines the major events of World War I to…
further understand how they led us to the shaping of this new world. 2004.With malice aforethought: six spectacular Canadian trials
Par David R Williams. 1993
Beginning with the 1868 shooting of politician Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Williams chronologically examines it and the trials of Louis Riel…
in 1885, Ernest Chenoweth in 1900, Wilbert Coffin in 1953, Steven Truscott in 1959, and Peter Demeter in 1974. Williams concludes that there is no reason to doubt the justice of the verdict in any of the six cases. 1993.When your number's up: the Canadian soldier in the First World War
Par Desmond Morton. 1993
Canadian historian Desmond Morton looks beyond the battles and events of the First World War and considers the men who…
actually did the fighting. He examines the reasons they joined the army, their training as soldiers, and what life was like for them at the front. He also asks about what happened to the wounded and the captured, and what became of those who made it home. 1993.When freedoms collide: the case for our civil liberties
Par A. Alan Borovoy. 1988
Discusses some of the civil liberty and human rights issues with which Canadians are faced, including pornography, hate literature, affirmative…
action employment practices, police powers, right to privacy, the protection of minorities, and the rights of strikers, welfare recipients, and the mentally ill. 1988.Vivre en santé après 40 ans
Par Gilles A Bordeleau. 1986
Gilles A. Bordeleau fait figure de pionnier dans le domaine de la naturopathie au Québec. Son livre nous enseigne ce…
qu'il faut faire pour être en forme et le rester malgré les tribulations et les vicissitudes de la vie. 1986.Vimy
Par Pierre Berton. 1986
In 1917, the Canadian Corps seized and held the best-defended German bastion on the Western Front, a feat thought impossible…
by the British, French and German forces. The author believes they succeeded because the men were civilians, with flexible minds unfettered by military rules. Bestseller 1986. Winner of the 1987 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award.Vimy: the battle and the legend
Par Tim Cook. 2017
Cook examines the battle of Vimy Ridge in April 1917 and the way the memory of it has evolved over…
100 years. Vimy is unlike any other battle in Canadian history: it has been described as the "birth of the nation." But the meaning of that phrase has never been explored, nor has any writer explained why the battle continues to resonate with Canadians. The Vimy battle that began April 9, 1917, was the first time the four divisions of the Canadian Expeditionary Force fought together. 10,600 men were killed or injured over four days--twice the casualty rate of the Dieppe Raid in August 1942. Bestseller. 2017.Victory at Vimy: Canada comes of age, April 9-12, 1917
Par Ted Barris. 2007
On Easter Monday April 9, 1917, sixteen battalions of the Canadian Corps rose along a six-kilometre line of trenches in…
northern France against the occupying Germans. All four Canadian divisions advanced in a line behind a well-rehearsed creeping barrage of artillery fire, and by nightfall the Germans had suffered a major setback. The Ridge, which other Allied troops had assaulted previously and failed to take, was firmly in Canadian hands. It was the first time Canadians had fought as a distinct national army, and in many ways it was a coming of age for the nation. Some descriptions of violence. c2007.Verdun: the lost history of the most important battle of World War I, 1914–1918
Par John Mosier. 2014
Alongside Waterloo and Gettysburg, the Battle of Verdun during World War I stands as one of history's greatest clashes. Yet…
it is also one of the most complex and misunderstood. Conventional wisdom holds that the battle began in February 1916 and lasted until December, when the victorious French wrested all the territory they had lost back from the Germans. In fact, says historian John Mosier, from the very beginning of the war until the armistice in 1918, no fewer than eight distinct battles were waged for the possession of Verdun. These conflicts are largely unknown, even in France, owing to the obsessive secrecy of the French high command and its energetic propaganda campaign to fool the world into thinking that the war on the Western Front was a steady series of German checks and defeats. Although British historians have always seen Verdun as a one-year battle designed by the German chief of staff to bleed France white, Mosier's careful analysis of the German plans reveals a much more abstract and theoretical approach. Our understanding of Verdun has long been mired in myths, false assumptions, propaganda, and distortions. Now, using numerous accounts of military analysts, serving officers, and eyewitnesses, including French sources that have never been translated, Mosier offers a compelling reassessment of the Great War's most important battle. 2014.Until you are dead: Steven Truscott's long ride into history
Par Julian Sher. 2001
In 1959, 14-year-old Steven Truscott was arrested for the murder of 12-year-old Lynne Harper near Clinton, Ontario. Though sentenced to…
death, Truscott's sentence was eventually commuted and he was released ten years later, all the while maintaining his innocence. This account details the case, trial, and Truscott's new appeal to have the case reopened. 2001.En 2011, Jacqueline Lagacé, Ph. D., publie l'ouvrage Comment j'ai vaincu la douleur et l'alimentation chronique par l'alimentation, qui suscite…
un immense intérêt tant au Canada qu'en Europe. Son blogue est rapidement inondé de témoignages et commentaires soulignant les bienfaits de la diète hypotoxique, pointant aussi les difficultés rencontrées. Infatigable chercheuse, Jacqueline Lagacé s'attelle aussitôt à la tâche, soucieuse d'apporter des réponses précises aux 1001 questions soulevées et de faire état des avancées de la recherche scientifique en ce domaine. L'ouvrage Une alimentation ciblée pour préserver ou retrouver la santé de l'intestin est le fruit de ce travail. L'auteure y vulgarise les connaissances scientifiques les plus récentes concernant les liens entre les aliments consommés et les maladies inflammatoires chroniques. Elle indique comment et pourquoi les choix alimentaires sont en très grande partie responsables de l'équilibre ou du déséquilibre fonctionnel de l'intestin et, conséquemment, de la santé globale. Elle explicite aussi l'impact de la diète hypotoxique sur les maladies chroniques. Enfin, elle apporte un éclairage précieux sur des sujets controversés, comme la prise de suppléments de calcium, de vitamine D, d'oméga 3, la fiabilité des tests de détection des intolérances alimentaires, etc. La réussite de la diète hypotoxique passe par une alimentation ciblée et cet ouvrage est l'outil indispensable pour y parvenir. 2016.Ultimate foods for ultimate health.. and don't forget the chocolate!: And Don't Forget The Chocolate!
Par Mairlyn Smith, Liz Pearson. 2007
Covers disease-fighting powerhouse foods, how often to eat them, and in what quantities. Filled with great tips for eating on…
the run, dining out and snacking wisely, the book includes recipes such as orange avocado black bean salsa salad, Jamaican spiced marinade for pork tenderloin, and wild blueberry muffins with lemon-zest topping. Follow-up to "The Ultimate Healthy Eating Plan". c2007.Tout sur les compléments alimentaires: les bons et les moins bons
Par Luc Cynober, Jacques Fricker. 2017
Faut-il prendre des compléments alimentaires ? Dans quels cas ? Et, si oui, lesquels ? Comment alors bien les choisir…
? Pour quels bénéfices ? Ce guide combine l'expertise d'un professeur et la pratique d'un médecin. Il vous permet de distinguer les bons produits des moins bons, voire de ceux qui sont dangereux pour la santé. Pour choisir les bons compléments alimentaires qui peuvent améliorer votre bien-être quand vous voulez combattre la fatigue, retrouver du tonus, lutter contre les signes de l'âge, maigrir ou encore avoir de beaux cheveux... 155 compléments alimentaires de consommation courante passés au crible avec des conseils avisés pour bien les choisir, mieux acheter et préserver votre santé. 2017.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 zone: a dietary road map (The zone Ser.)
Par Barry Sears, Bill Lawren. 1995
Believing the trend towards eating a diet high in carbohydrates will not lead to weight loss and health, the author…
details a diet he calls the zone. He stresses the importance of getting the correct amount of protein and restricting the amount and the types of carbohydrates eaten because of their detrimental hormonal effects. 1995.