Basing his work on the recent findings of scholars in many European countries and the US, Jacques Pauwels explains how Hitler gained and held the support of powerful business interests who found the well-liked ...

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Surmonter l’épreuve : Canada et la Seconde Guerre mondiale
9781988282015

The Second World War transformed Canada and its place in the world. The outbreak of war in September ...

Captain Mueller is dead. Hanged, apparently, by his own hand. But ex-police officer and war hero Sergeant August Neumann doesn’t think it’s quite so simple. How could it be, with blackshirts, legionnaires, ...

Adriana A. Davies is a writer, editor, and poet, and is the founding executive director of the Heritage Community Foundation. Jeff Keshen is dean of arts at Mount Royal University.

Readers will come away ...

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Un ciel meurtrier : Guerre aérienne, 1914-1918
9780660031446

Go beyond the dogfights and immerse yourself in the captivating stories of six people, from both sides of the ...

“Mother Tongue’s noble rescue project, now eight in the Unheralded Artists of BC series… insightfully written… a sumptuously designed book, and contains a generous number of photographs of Akroyd’s ...

During the winter of 1944–45, the western Allies desperately sought a strategy that would lead to Germany’s quick defeat. From the Swiss border to the North Sea, hundreds of thousands of soldiers ...

Catching the Torch examines contemporary novels and plays written about Canada’s participation in World War I. Exploring such works as Jane Urquhart’s The Underpainter and The Stone Carvers, Jack ...

John Werner was a storyteller. A Mennonite immigrant in southern Manitoba, he captivated his audiences with tales of adventure and perseverance. With every telling he constructed and reconstructed the ...

Investigative journalist François Bélanger finds the Second World War barrelling into his life on two separate occasions. First the alleged war criminal “Krylenko” found hiding in a quiet neighbourhood; ...