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The area now called Little Burgundy was the birthplace of jazz in Montreal.

Bill Brownstein tells the colourful story of Schwartzs Hebrew Delicatessen and the origins of its unique smoked meat.

Briefly allies during World War II, Adolph Hitler and Josef Stalin then tried to exterminate each other.

A powerful collection of never-before-told war stories crafted from hundreds of interviews by James Patterson and First Sergeant US Army (Ret.) Matt Eversmann.

Margaret Coker provides an account of how a covert Iraqi intelligence unit came together against all odds to defeat ISIS.

The Enlightenment is the fountainhead of modern secular Western values: religious tolerance, freedom of thought, speech, and the press, of rationality and evidence based argument.

Poet and educator Clint Smith explores the places where the history of slavery has been preserved, if not fully reckoned with.

Emma Southon examines a trove of real-life homicides from Roman history to explore Roman culture, including how perpetrator, victim, and the act itself were regarded by ordinary people.

The story of the Hudson's Bay Company is the story of modern Canada's creation. And it has never before been told in such depth and detail as in this new book by Stephen R. Bown.

On January 17, 1913, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was alone and near starvation--and one hundred miles from base camp.

In a devastated Europe at the end of World War II, the improbable relationship between fallen tyrant Hermann Göring and rising US Army physician Douglas Kelley becomes a hazardous quest into the n

Each the subject of innumerable biographies, Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee have never before been paired as they are here. William C.

Human rights activist Lisa Shannon weaves together the stories of one family's tragic encounters with Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army in the Congo with tales from the family's rich and vibrant

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Award-winning author Karen Blumenthal devoted months to tracing the footsteps of Bonnie and Clyde, unearthing new information and debunking many persistent myths.