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Canada in the great power game 1914-2014 / by Dyer, Gwynne,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Traitors Circle. by Freedland, Jonathan.;
'The Traitors Circle' is the extraordinarily true, but scarcely known story of a group of daring Germans who risked everything to save Jewish lives during the Holocaust. From the author of 'The Escape Artist'. A RADD Pick. Goodreads Marketing Campaign.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: HISTORY / Holocaust; HISTORY / Jewish; HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust; HISTORY / Social History;
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The Girl Behind the Wall [electronic resource] : by Robotham, Mandy.aut; cloudLibrary;
General adult.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Religious; War & Military; 20th Century; Historical;
© 2021., HarperCollins Publishers,
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1945 : the year that made modern Canada / by Cuthbertson, Ken,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."1945 was a watershed year for Canada and the world. It ushered in the modern era and set Canada on a new course. With the momentous dropping of the Atomic bomb on Japan, everything had changed. There was a sense of relief at the ending of hostilities, but there was also great uncertainty and fear of the brave new world unfolding. On the eve of WWII, Canada's population was just 10 million. The country was a sleepy backwater where nothing of much significance ever happened. If we accept that the country forged its national identity in World War I, it's fair to say that it came of age in the six years of WWII. As a result, Canada stepped into the modern era in 1945 completely changed and ready to assume its place in the world as an independent nation, no longer under the colonial sway of the mother country. As he did with The Halifax Explosion, bestselling author Ken Cuthbertson has written a compelling narrative about the year 1945 and the events and personalities that shaped our country and created our future. From Mackenzie King, Rocket Richard, and Emily Carr to E.P. Taylor, Igor Gouzenko, Hugh MacLennan, Agnes McPhail and Gabrielle Roy, among others, 1945 weaves an unforgettable portrait of our nation at the moment of its modern birth. Just as writer Bill Bryson's recent bestseller One Summer: America, 1927 chronicled a pivotal year in American history by focusing on the experiences of a select group of American historical figures, 1945: The Year That Made Modern Canada will tell the stories of Canadians - some celebrated, some just ordinary people - who left their mark on this country during 1945 as they seeded its future."-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: History.; Canadians;
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Stephen Leacock / by MacMillan, Margaret,1943-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-169).LSC
Subjects: Leacock, Stephen, 1869-1944.; Authors, Canadian (English); Humorists, Canadian (English);
© 2009., Penguin Group,
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The Last Love Song. by Riley, Lucinda.;
Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: Romance fiction.; FICTION; FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / Post-World W; FICTION / Romance / Historical / 20th Century; FICTION / Romance / Rock Stars;
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We don't know ourselves : a personal history of modern Ireland / by O'Toole, Fintan,1958-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A celebrated Irish writer's magisterial, brilliantly insightful chronicle of the wrenching transformations that dragged his homeland into the modern world. Fintan O'Toole was born in the year the revolution began. It was 1958, and the Irish government?in despair, because all the young people were leaving?opened the country to foreign investment and popular culture. So began a decades-long, ongoing experiment with Irish national identity. In We Don't Know Ourselves, O'Toole, one of the Anglophone world's most consummate stylists, weaves his own experiences into Irish social, cultural, and economic change, showing how Ireland, in just one lifetime, has gone from a reactionary "backwater" to an almost totally open society-perhaps the most astonishing national transformation in modern history. Born to a working-class family in the Dublin suburbs, O'Toole served as an altar boy and attended a Christian Brothers school, much as his forebears did. He was enthralled by American Westerns suddenly appearing on Irish television, which were not that far from his own experience, given that Ireland's main export was beef and it was still not unknown for herds of cattle to clatter down Dublin's streets. Yet the Westerns were a sign of what was to come. O'Toole narrates the once unthinkable collapse of the all-powerful Catholic Church, brought down by scandal and by the activism of ordinary Irish, women in particular. He relates the horrific violence of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, which led most Irish to reject violent nationalism. In O'Toole's telling, America became a lodestar, from John F. Kennedy's 1963 visit, when the soon-to-be martyred American president was welcomed as a native son, to the emergence of the Irish technology sector in the late 1990s, driven by American corporations, which set Ireland on the path toward particular disaster during the 2008 financial crisis. A remarkably compassionate yet exacting observer, O'Toole in coruscating prose captures the peculiar Irish habit of "deliberate unknowing," which allowed myths of national greatness to persist even as the foundations were crumbling. Forty years in the making, We Don't Know Ourselves is a landmark work, a memoir and a national history that ultimately reveals how the two modes are entwined for all of us"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; O'Toole, Fintan, 1958-;
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Train country : an illustrated history of Canadian National Railways / by MacKay, Donald,1925-; Perry, Lorne.;
Subjects: Canadian National Railways; Railroads;
© 1994., Douglas & McIntyre,
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The pigeon tunnel : stories from my life / by Le Carré, John,1931-author.;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Biographies.; Le Carré, John, 1931-; Novelists, English;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The outsider [sound recording] : my life in intrigue / by Forsyth, Frederick,1938-author.; Powell, Robert,narrator.; Random House Audio Publishing,publisher.;
Read by Robert Powell.
Subjects: Forsyth, Frederick, 1938-; Audiobooks.; Novelists, English;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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