Americas

John Demont.Categories: TravelTravel Writing

Many books on the Luftwaffe in World War II have been published over the years, although the Night Fighter´s branch has been studied less often. In our Gui...

The most comprehensive reconstruction of the history and fate of the legendary ancient civilization of Atlantis • Draws together compelling evidence f...

The women pilots profiled in this book have flown from British Columbia to Newfoundland and in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. Right from the beginni...

The untold story of an eccentric Wall Street tycoon and the circle of scientific geniuses he assembled before World War II to develop the science for radar ...

The Canadian West has a history littered with tales of robbers and murderers. These frontier days were long before faxes, DNA analysis and e-mail, and the b...

Canada Abounds In Historical Burial Places. Once You Begin Noticing Their Presence, Old Cemeteries Seem To Be Everywhere. But These Important Links To The P...

Lawyer, Activist, And Former Chatelaine Legal Columnist Linda Silver Dranoff Details Her Trailblazing Journey From A Traditional 1950s Childhood To The Batt...

The Group Of Seven, Sometimes Known As The Algonquin School, Were A Group Of Canadian Landscape Painters In The Early 20th Century Who Initiated The First C...

The True Story Behind the Events on 9/11 that Inspired Broadway’s Smash Hit Musical Come from Away When 38 jetliners bound for the United States were for...

Winner: Distinguished Book Award, Society of Colonial Wars of New York (2008)Winner: Charles P. Stacey Prize for Canadian Military History (2008)Globe and ...

Canadian Foreign Policy in a Changing World highlights the descriptive record of Canadian foreign policy, especially in the period since 1945 but also reach...

The book of the popular movie STARRING GAEL GARCIA BERNAL NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The young Che Guevara’s lively and highly entertaining travel ...

Destinies is a well written, highly readable, clearly organized and richly illustrated history of Canada from 1867 to the present. It incorporates the histo...

From the moment explorer Giovanni Caboto stepped onto Canadian soil, Italians have left their footprints on Canadian history. In the 1700s, Italians includ...

[with Herb Shoveller]. Includes Index.Categories: History AmericasCanada

Presents A True Account Of The Early Twentieth-century Murders Of Dozens Of Wealthy Osage And Law-enforcement Officials, Citing The Contributions And Misste...

The Arquives, The Largest Independent Lgbtq2+ Archive In The World, Is Dedicated To Collecting, Preserving, And Celebrating The Stories And Histories Of Lgb...

From The Era Before European Contact To The Present Day, People Living In What Is Now The United States Have Constantly Been Interacting With Their Environm...

Metis and the Medicine Line is a sprawling, ambitious look at how national borders and notions of race were created and manipulated to unlock access to in...

A deeply engaging new history of how European settlements in the post-Colombian Americas shaped the world, from the bestselling author of 1491. Presenting t...

An outstanding book. Truly gripping and chilling.—Captain G. Andy Chase, Maine Maritime Academy Built for luxury on a grand scale, the Fantome was a 282-f...

National Bestseller • The Riveting, Tick-tock Account Of The Largest Manmade Explosion In History Prior To The Atomic Bomb, And The Equally Astonishing Ta...

Some books stand the test of time and become classics -- this history of the Georgian Bay region is one of them. This edition includes a new epilogue by th...

At the midpoint of the twentieth century, the First Nations people of Ontario’s underdeveloped hinterland lived primarily from the land. They congregated...

In the summer of 1846, the Army of the West marched through Santa Fe, en route to invade and occupy the Western territories claimed by Mexico. Fueled by t...

This Is The Biggest, Grandest, Most Sprawling Epic Ever Told, Filled With Battles And Hardship, Courage, Determination, Daring Voyages Into The Unknown, And...

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Canada will lead you straight to the best attractions this country has to offer. The fully updated guide includes unique cutawa...

Using Recently Declassified Evidence O'keefe Provides New Explanations For The Motives Behind The Raid On Dieppe. The Canadian Albatross -- A Very Special B...

Biographies of six Western Indian chiefs who led their people in a historic moment of crisis, when a decision had to be made about fighting or cooperating ...

In the weeks after D-Day, the level of artillery action in Normandy was unprecedented. In what was a relatively small area, both sides bombarded each other...

George G. Blackburn. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: History Americas Canada20th Century

The History Of The Lake's Canadian Shore Is Explored Through Stories Of The Adventures, Failures, Triumphs, And Deceits Of Those Who Came To Fulfill Their D...

An Account Based On Interviews With Top Officials Surveys The First Eighteen Months Of The Bush Administration To Consider How The President And His Advisor...

The Bestselling Author Of The Sign And The Seal Looks Into The True Origins Of Civilization. Connecting Puzzling Clues Scattered Throughout The World, Hanco...

A wild ride through Canadian history, fully revised and updated! This new edition of Canadian History For Dummies takes readers on a thrilling ride thro...

Colonial Lives offers a rich variety of archival documents in translation which bring to life the political and economic workings of Latin American coloni...

Roderick Nash's classic study of America's changing attitudes toward wilderness has received wide acclaim since its initial publication in 1967. The Los An...

Journalist Michael Mckinley Celebrates 100 Years Of Hockey Canada, From The Creation Of The Canadian Amateur Hockey Association In 1914 To Today. Michael Mc...

They had defeated the French and now the English possessed the vast North American Empire. Soldiers, traders, settlers—all began the trek across the wilder...

Robert Lyman’s deep knowledge and understanding of the war in Burma, and the great battles at Kohima and Imphal in 1944, are well known. In this book he u...

Beginning With The Pre-hispanic Period, Moving On To Cuba's Struggle To Maintain The Revolution In The Years Following The Collapse Of The Soviet Union, And...

100 Events that Shaped World History is a wonderful and insightful overview of the basic facts that have created the world as it is today. Interesting and f...

In this poignant collection of oral histories, four Indian elders recount their life stories in their own quiet but uncompromising words. Growing up and liv...

Rosemary Neering. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 139) And Index. Issued Also In Electronic Format.Categories: HistoryUnited States

Children's author Bobbie Kalman's new series Native Nations of North America is an ongoing series that looks at the lives of the indigenous peoples of Nort...

Between the late 1970s and the mid-1980s, the people of Guatemala were subjected to a state-sponsored campaign of political violence and repression designe...

A boat full of explosives heads in to the harbour as a large cargo ship steams out to sea. What happened next, on a fateful day in December 1917, is etched ...