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Discusses Canada's victory at Vimy Ridge during World War I.
"It's all here. The financiers and founders of the White Star Line; the building and launch; the ship's features; the crew and passengers; the fateful collision; the scramble for lifeboats; the sinking and the survivors; the high-tech discovery of the wreck; the movie. 882-1/2 Am...
On the night of August 19, 1942, a force of five thousand Canadians launched an attack on the Nazi-held French port of Dieppe. When the disastrous raid was done,and the Allies were forced to retreat, nearly a thousand Canadian troops lay dead. Almost two thousand were taken priso...
Text and cut-away illustrations feature the stories of real-life children who sailed aboard the Titanic on the night of its disaster in the North Atlantic.
A look at D-Day, June 6, 1944, when Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy, France, focusing on Canada's role that day.
Introduces some of the dinosaurs living in Canada millions of years ago.
"This is a fictionalized account of the creation of Sargent's famous painting, but it is based on real events"--P. 48.
Shielded from St Petersburg society, the last tsar's four daughters enjoyed a simple life of almost cloudless happiness. Their evenings were spent with their parents, reading aloud and pasting snapshots into albums. Drawing on these precious personal keepsakes - long hidden in Ru...