Historical Nonfiction - March 2022

Historical Nonfiction March 2022 LIST NO: 46238

Suggested Due Date: March 1, 2023 © Copyright March 2022

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Historical Nonfiction - March 2022 Volunteers: How Halifax Women Won the Second World War Lezlie Lowe

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138659 women during the war who trained as We all know the stories of Canadian machinists, welders, and streetcar drivers to fill the shoes of men who answered the call. This is not that story. 'The Volunteers: How Halifax Women Won the Second World War' is the untold story of Halifax women who geared up in a flash to focus on the comfort, community connections, and mental health of Halifax's exploding population of sailors, soldiers, airmen, and merchant mariners. They did a job no government could have organized or afforded. They did it without being asked. And they did it with no respite from their daily duties.

Mar-2022 nimbus publishing

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Fugitives: A History of Nazi Mercenaries During the Cold War Danny Orbach EAN 9781643138954 In the aftermath of WWII, the157408 victorious Allies vowed to hunt Nazi war criminals "to the ends of the earth." Yet many slipped away to the four corners of the world or were shielded by the Western Allies in exchange for cooperation. Shrouded in government secrecy, clouded by myths and propaganda, the tangled and often paradoxical tale of these Nazi fugitives and operatives has never been properly told until now.

Mar-2022 pegasus books

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Hastings Mill: The Historic Times of a Vancouver Community Lisa Anne Smith EAN 9781553806417 In the summer of 1865, when121799 Captain Edward Stamp began to organize the construction of a small sawmilling operation on the south shore of Burrard Inlet, he likely never realized that a future metropolis was in the making. The fledgling Stamp's Mill, later to become Hastings Mill, was Vancouver's first community.

When time and local demographics ultimately spelled the death knoll for the sawmill and its weathered structures in 1930, an unlikely group of determined ladies rose to the challenge of saving the Hastings Mill Store, Vancouver's oldest building.

Mar-2022 ronsdale press

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Historical Nonfiction - March 2022 Great War and the Birth of Modern Medicine Thomas Helling

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EAN 9781643138992 The Great War of 1914-1918157408 burst on the European scene with a brutality to mankind not yet witnessed by the civilized world. Thomas Helling's description of events that shaped refinements of medical care is a riveting account of the ingenuity and resourcefulness of men and women to deter the total destruction of the human body and human mind. The marvels of resuscitation, blood transfusion, brain surgery, X-rays, and bone setting all had their beginnings on the battlefields of France. The influenza contagion in 1918 was an ominous forerunner of the frightening pandemic of 2020-2021.

Mar-2022 pegasus books

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Unsettling the Great White North: Black Canadian History Michele A. Johnson 162907 EAN scholarship in the field of Black Canadian history, 9781487529178 An exhaustive volume of leading 'Unsettling the Great White North' highlights the diverse experiences of persons of African descent within the chronicles of Canada's past. The book considers histories and theoretical framings within the disciplines of history, sociology, law, and cultural and gender studies to chart the mechanisms of exclusion and marginalization in 'multicultural' Canada and to situate Black Canadians as speakers and agents of their own lives.

Mar-2022 university of toronto press, schol

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BBC: A Century on Air David Hendy EAN 9781610397049 Former BBC producer David129960 Hendy, an expert in broadcasting and cultural history who has privileged access to previously unused behind-the-scenes resources, tells the history of an extraordinary institution; the oldest national public broadcaster in the world. In doing so, he presents a broader cultural history of Britain, weaving into its fabric the wider world of politics, the arts, social change, and everyday life.

Mar-2022 publicaffairs

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Historical Nonfiction - March 2022 Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire Caroline Elkins

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107570 EAN 9780307272423 Drawing on more than a decade of research on four continents, 'Legacy of Violence' implicates all sides of Britain's political divide in the creation, execution, and cover-up of imperial violence. By demonstrating how and why violence was the most salient factor underwriting Britain's empire and the nation's imperial identity at home, Elkins upends long-held myths and sheds new light on the empire's role in shaping the world today.

Mar-2022 knopf

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Against All Odds: A True Story of Ultimate Courage and Survival in World War II Alex Kershaw 187773 EANand a wealth of primary source material, Alex 9780593183748 Tapping into personal interviews Kershaw has delivered his most gripping account yet of American courage, spanning more than six hundred days of increasingly merciless combat, from the deserts of North Africa to the dark heart of Nazi Germany. Once the guns fell silent, these four exceptional warriors would discover just how heavy the Medal of Honor could be and how great the expectations associated with it. Having survived against all odds, who among them would finally find peace?

Mar-2022 dutton caliber

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Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality Oded Galor 108050 EAN flourishing and inequality, from one of the world's 9780593185995 A grand unifying theory of human pre-eminent thinkers. As we face ecological crisis across the globe, 'The Journey of Humanity' is a book of urgent truths and enduring relevance, with lessons that are both hopeful and profound: gender equality, investment in education, and balancing diversity with social cohesion are the keys not only to our species' thriving, but to its survival.

Mar-2022 dutton

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Empire of the Scalpel: The History of Surgery Ira Rutkow EAN 9781501163746 From the 16th-century saga of101145 Andreas Vesalius and his crusade to accurately describe human anatomy while appeasing the conservative clergy who clamoured for his burning at the stake, to the hard-to-believe story of late-19th century surgeons' apathy to Joseph Lister's innovation of antisepsis and how this indifference led to thousands of unnecessary surgical deaths, 'Empire of the Scalpel' is both a global history and a uniquely American tale.

Mar-2022 scribner

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Historical Nonfiction - March 2022 Far Land: 200 Years of Murder, Mania, and Mutiny in the South Pacific Brandon Presser

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Her Majesty The Queen: The Official Platinum Jubilee Pageant Commemorative Album Robert Jobson an

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129960 EAN 9781541758575 In 1808, an American merchant ship happened upon an uncharted island in the South Pacific and unwittingly solved the biggest nautical mystery of the era: the whereabouts of a band of fugitives who, after seizing their vessel, had disappeared into the night with their Tahitian companions. Pitcairn Island was the perfect hideaway from British authorities, but after nearly two decades of isolation its secret society had devolved into a tribalistic hellscape; a real-life 'Lord of the Flies,' rife with depravity and deception. In 2018, Presser rode the freighter to live among its present-day families: two clans bound by circumstance and secrets.

Mar-2022 publicaffairs

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183081 EAN Princess Elizabeth became Queen on 6 February 9781906670955 Written with Katie Nicholl. When 1952, few could have anticipated that she would go on to become Britain's longest-reigning monarch; a figure revered around the world for her wisdom, dedication, and sense of duty. Seventy years on, and Her Majesty's Platinum Jubilee will see the nation come together to celebrate a truly historic landmark. Featuring more than 200 photographs from throughout The Queen's life, this fully illustrated hardback publication is the only book product licensed by the Platinum Jubilee Pageant and permitted to carry the official logo.

Mar-2022 st james's house

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We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland Fintan O'Toole

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103955 EAN 9781631496530 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. 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.

Mar-2022 liveright

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Historical Nonfiction - March 2022 War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium Barry Strauss

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101164 EAN 9781982116675 The gripping story of one of history's most important and yet little-known wars, the campaign culminating in the Battle of Actium in 31 BC, whose outcome determined the future of the Roman Empire. Had Antony and Cleopatra won, the empire's capital might have moved from Rome to Alexandria, Cleopatra's capital, and Latin might have become the empire's second language after Greek, which was spoken throughout the eastern Mediterranean, including Egypt.

Mar-2022 simon & schuster

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