"The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) was founded in 1924 as a sort of federal air service, carrying out civilian-type operations for Ottawa. In the Second World War, the RCAF grew to more than 200,000 personnel in overseas squadrons and performed virtually every type of mission, ...
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"In the fall of 1942, roundups of Jews in Dąbrowa Tarnowska, Poland, lead twelve-year-old Molly Applebaum and her cousin Helen to find refuge on a nearby farm, where their only hope for survival is to be hidden away underground--in a box. Confined "in a grave" from 1943 to early...
A collection of Rosemary Sexton's diaries, chronicling the life of a judge's wife in Ottawa at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
"Carmichael captures the anguish and the wonder of war in flashes of colour, humour, and gems of human detail mined from letters, diaries, interviews, [and] her own family history." - Halifax Chronicle Herald A rich and varied tapestry of the First World War, highlighting t...
George Mercer Dawson was indeed no ordinary man. Born in 1849, son of the first Principal of McGill University, Dawson defied health circumstances that would have defeated many people and went on to become one of our most exceptional Canadians. As a geologist in the British Nort...
One of the most important, exciting biographies of our time: the definitive, major two-volume biography of Pierre Elliott Trudeau -- written with unprecedented, complete access to Trudeau's enormous cache of private letters and papers. Bestselling biographer John English gets be...