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Spring jaunts: some walks, excursions & personal explorations of town, country & seashore
Par Anthony Bailey. 1986
The author's jaunts take him round the Isle of Wight, along the Massachusetts to Maine coastline, into the bizarre and…
hilarious history of Nice's Promenade des Anglais, and down the Severn River. A world of friendly conversation, tranquil landscapes, antique churches and country pubs. 1986.Slow boats to China
Par Gavin Young. 1981
The author's love of the sea, inspired by Conrad, led him to set off on a voyage that was to…
take him halfway round the world on small, local boats of every kind. 1981.Skulking for the King: a loyalist plot
Par J Fraser. 1985
Six months that changed the world: the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 (The modern scholar)
Par Margaret MacMillan. 2003
In this course, University of Toronto history professor Margaret MacMillan takes us back to Paris in 1919, when, for six…
months, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, British Prime Minister David Lloyd George and French Prime Minister George Clemenceau met to discuss the peace settlements that would end World War I. 2003.Sinister twilight: the fall of Singapore
Par Noel Barber. 1988
In just ten weeks, Malaya was overrun and the 'fortress' of Singapore surrendered to a Japanese army that found itself…
outnumbered by the 100,000 plus British and Commonwealth prisoners. Written at a time when he could still interview many of the senior officers as well as ordinary soldiers caught up in this disaster, Noel Barber's account reveals how peacetime complacency prevailed in Singapore up to the very moment the Japanese onslaught began. 1988.Shock factor: American snipers in the War on Terror
Par Jack Coughlin, John R Bruning. 2014
Follows the Canadian fighting forces during the battles of Vimy Ridge, Hill 70, Passchendaele, and the Hundred Days campaign, through…
the eyes of the soldiers who fought and died in the trenches, and based on newly uncovered sources. The Canadian fighting forces never lost a battle during the final 2 years of the war, and although they paid a terrible price, they were indeed, as British Prime Minister David Lloyd George exclaimed, the shock troops of the Empire. Companion to "At the sharp end" (DC32639). Some descriptions of sex and descriptions of violence. 2009.Sea of thunder: four commanders and the last great naval campaign 1941-1945
Par Evan Thomas. 2006
Based on oral histories, diaries, correspondence, post-war testimony from both American and Japanese participants, Evan Thomas provides an almost cinematically…
suspenseful account not only of the great culminating sea battle and the Pacific naval war, but of the contrasting cultures pitted against each other. The book focuses on four naval commanders, two American, two Japanese, whose lives collided at the Battle of Leyte Gulf in October 1944--a clash involving more ships (almost 300), more men (nearly 200,000) and covering a larger area (more than 100 thousand square miles, roughly the size of the British Isles) than any naval battle in recorded history. 2006.Shake hands with the devil: the failure of humanity in Rwanda
Par Roméo A Dallaire, Brent Beardsley. 2003
As former head of the 1993 U.N. peacekeeping mission in Rwanda, Canadian general Dallaire's initial proposal called for 5,000 soldiers,…
to permit orderly elections and the return of the refugees. Nothing like this number was supplied, and the result was an outright attempt at genocide against the Tutsis that nearly succeeded, with 800,000 dead over three months. Dallaire's argument that Rwanda-like situations are fires that can be put out with a small force if caught early enough will certainly draw debate, but the book documents in horrifying detail what happens when no serious effort is made. Explicit descriptions of violence. Winner of the 2004 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. Canada Reads 2012. 2003.Seraffyn's Mediterranean adventure
Par Lin Pardey, Larry Pardey. 1981
Account of the authors' journey along the south coast of Spain and Malta, crossing over to Tunisia, then moving on…
to Italy and Yugoslavia. Intersperses tales of unwitting smuggling, military arrests, a collision and a hurricane. 1981.Searching for Sofia: a tale of murder, obsession and war
Par John Nadler. 2003
When Gjorg returns to his home in Kosovo, he finds that many people are missing and rumoured to be murdered.…
His girlfriend is also torn away from him because he is Albanian and she is Serbian. When Gjorg meets John Nadler, he asks for help in finding his lost love. Some descriptions for violence. 2003.Salut au grand Sud (Documents)
Par Isabelle Autissier, Erik Orsenna. 2007
Sans bagage: un conte d'amour et de voyage : roman
Par Clara Bensen, Fabienne Gondrand. 2016
" Après avoir traversé une phase difficile, Clara Bensen, vingt-cinq ans, décide de s'inscrire sur un site de rencontre. Elle…
y fait la connaissance de Jeff, un professeur d'université débordant d'énergie et réputé pour son rejet des conventions - tout son opposé. À peine se connaissent-ils qu'ils se lancent dans une expérience de voyage unique. La règle du jeu ? Pas de réservation d'hôtel ni de programme, juste les billets aller-retour et, surtout, aucun bagage, rien à part les vêtements qu'ils portent. Comment trouver le courage de sortir de sa zone de confort ? Peut-on aimer en délaissant les schémas habituels ? " -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: No baggage : a minimalist tale of love & wandering.Sarajevo days, Sarajevo nights (Key Porter Bks.)
Par Elma Softic, Nada Conic. 1995
When Serbian forces began bombing Sarajevo in the spring of 1992, Elma Softic was forced out of the comfort of…
a cosmopolitan lifestyle, and plunged into war. To escape the siege around her, and to try to understand what was happening, she kept a diary and began writing open letters to friends in Zagreb. These letters reached a growing public in Croatia and eventually Europe. This book is a collection of Elma's diaries and letters, from April 1992 to June 1995. 1995.Saving Bravo: the greatest rescue mission in Navy SEAL history
Par Stephan Talty. 2018
The untold story of the most important rescue mission not just of the Vietnam War, but the entire Cold War:…
one American aviator, who knew our most important secrets, crashed behind enemy lines and was sought by the entire North Vietnamese and Russian military machines. One Navy SEAL and his Vietnamese partner had to sneak past them all to save him. At the height of the Vietnam War, few American airmen are more valuable than Lt. Colonel Gene Hambleton. His memory is filled with highly classified information, and he knows secrets about cutting-edge missile technology that the Soviets and North Vietnamese badly want. When Hambleton is shot down behind enemy lines in the midst of North Vietnam's Easter Offensive, US forces place the entire war on hold to save a single man hiding amongst 30,000 enemy troops and tanks. Airborne rescue missions fail, killing eleven Americans. Finally, Navy SEAL Thomas Norris and his Vietnamese guide, Nguyen Van Kiet, volunteer to go after him on foot. Gliding past hundreds of enemy soldiers, it takes them days to reach a starving Hambleton, who, guided toward his rescuers via improvised radio code, is barely alive, starved, and hallucinating after eleven days on the run. In this deeply-researched, untold story, award-winning author Stephan Talty describes the extraordinary mission that led Hambleton to safety. Drawing from dozens of interviews and access to unpublished papers, Saving Bravo is the riveting story of one of the greatest rescue missions in the history of the Special Forces. 2018.Sarajevo: a war journal
Par Zlatko Dizdarevic. 1993
The editor of Sarajevo's sole daily newspaper in the mid-1990s has drawn together nearly sixty of his previously published columns…
to form a journal of events in the besieged city. The author, who is Muslim and continues to live there with his Serbian wife and their family, chronicles the gradual destruction of the city, the actions of those in power, the daily carnage known as "ethnic cleansing," and the determination of those who choose not to leave. 1993. Uniform title: Journal de guerre.Renégats: les Canadiens engagés dans la guerre civile espagnole (Mémoire des Amériques)
Par Michael Petrou, Veronique Dassas, Colette St-Hilaire. 2015
Entre 1936 et 1939, près de 1 700 Canadiens ont défié la politique étrangère de leur gouvernement et se sont…
engagés comme volontaires dans la guerre civile espagnole. En faisant ce choix, ils quittaient la misère des camps de secours, des mines et des grandes villes pour aller combattre le fascisme dans un pays qui leur était inconnu. Ils furent plus de 400 à y perdre la vie. S'appuyant sur des archives de l'Internationale communiste rendues publiques récemment et sur les témoignages de vétérans qu'il a interviewés, Petrou raconte l'histoire de ces hommes. 2015. Titre uniforme: Renegades.Roosevelt and Churchill: men of secrets
Par David Stafford. 1999
Explores the relationship between the United States president Franklin Roosevelt and the British prime minister Winston Churchill before and during…
the Second World War. Explains how the two leaders shared intelligence secrets, bribed Spain to remain neutral, and trusted each other despite conflicting postwar national interests. 1999.Sailing through China
Par Paul Theroux. 1983
American novelist and travel writer sails down the Yangtze River in China along with thirty-three Americans, mostly millionaires, on an…
exclusive Lindblad tour. Theroux offers prose pictures of the river's industry-fouled cities and villages, the countless junks and sampans, the spectacular gorges, the endless views of Chinese people tilling the half-dead fields, plus acerbic sketches of his rich companions. Some strong language. 1984, c1983.Hertig asserts that both the American and Canadian governments are intentionally misleading their citizens about the Pentagon's unprecedented plans to…
weaponize space, about the new Russian and Chinese nuclear missile build-ups, and about the destruction of important, long-standing arms control agreements. Other topics covered are why the so-called U.S. missile "defence" system is really about establishing a U.S. first-strike-from-space capability, why both Paul Martin and Stephen Harper want to join in George W. Bush's program, and how all these factors may be leading to a rapidly increasing danger of a nuclear apocalypse. 2004.