By Richard Gwyn - $37.00 - add to cart

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Winner of the 2008 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction.The first full-scale biography of Canada’s first prime minister in half a century by one of our best-known and most highly regarded...

By Ben Macintyre - $16.95 - add to cart

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Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a philanderer. He was also one of the most remarkable double agents Britain has ever produced. Inside the traitor was a man of loyalty; inside ...

By Sarah Lyall - $27.50 - add to cart

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Sarah Lyall, a reporter for the New York Times, moved to London in the mid-1990s and soon became known for her amusing and incisive dispatches on her adopted country. As she came to terms with its ...

By James S. Corum - $29.95 - add to cart

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Four case studies--Algeria, Cyprus, Vietnam, and Iraq--reveal the common mistakes military and civilian leaders make when confronting insurgencies.

By Mark Zuehlke - $36.95 - add to cart

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Brave Battalion presents the story of four Canadian Highland regiments that were banded together as the 16th Battalion. Ninety years after the end of WWI, this work honours those soldiers and makes...

By John Gascoigne - $21.95 - add to cart

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Captain James Cook was a supreme navigator and explorer, but in many ways was also a representative of English attitudes in the eighteenth century. In his voyages he came across peoples with hugely...

By Yitzchak Mais - $22.95 - add to cart

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Moving first-hand accounts of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust are supported by photographs, ritual objects, and art produced clandestinely by Jews in ghettos and camps. Several entries are f...

By Peter Edwards - $32.95 - add to cart

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I have a Son who is 1st Lieut. and Adjutant in the Army of the U.S. of America station at Nashville Tennessee from where I am continually receiving communications on general events some of which co...

By Petr Ginz - $17.50 - add to cart

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Petr Ginz was a 14-year-old Jewish boy living in Prague. Six exercise books full of his writings and drawings were found in a house in Prague in 2003. Lappin, who translated his diaries from Czech,...

By William Kilbourn - $24.99 - add to cart

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In The Firebrand, William Kilbourn brings to life the rebel Canadian hero William Lyon Mackenzie. A skilled historian and an entertaining writer, Kilbourn reveals Mackenzie's complex character: abl...

By Kathryn Shevelow - $30.50 - add to cart

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he engaging story of how an unlikely group of extraordinary people laid the foundation for the legal protection of animals In eighteenth-century England—where cockfighting and bullbaiting drew...

By Gary J. Bass - $40.00 - add to cart

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Why do we sometimes let evil happen to others and sometimes rally to stop it? Whose lives matter to us? These are the key questions posed in this important and perceptive study of the largely forgo...

By H. P. Willmott - $23.95 - add to cart

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"The best balanced one-volume history of the Second World War in its coverage of all the major themes and all the fronts. Willmott's fresh insights into the war on the Eastern Front are an outstand...

By Robert F. Dalzell - $20.00 - add to cart

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Despite his immense personal fortune, John D. Rockefeller was by all accounts a modest man who detested displays of ostentation. So it is ironic that the Rockefeller "family house," built above the...

By Thomas J. Craughwell - $21.95 - add to cart

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Compelling stories and unforgettable characters More than 800 years have past since the last barbarian horde slaughtered and plundered its way across Asia and Europe, yet civilized folks are sti...