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By 1941, Winston Churchill had come to believe that the outcome of World War II rested on the battle for the Atlantic. A grand strategy game was devised to reveal the tactics behind the vicious success of the German U-boats. Through play, the designers developed a maneuver to turn the tide of World War II.

In 1943, amidst the start of German occupation, Eddy de Wind worked as a doctor at Westerbork, a Dutch transit camp. His mother had been taken to this camp by Nazis but Eddy was assured by the Jewish Council she would be freed in exchange for his labor.

This account of one mountain man's life at the height of the nineteenth-century fur industry follows Rose as he overcomes adversity, learns from those around him, and becomes one of the most successful trappers of the Rockies.

In December of 1943, a group of highly trained US and Canadian soldiers capture a crucial Nazi stronghold perched atop stunningly steep cliffs. The unit, with its vast range of capabilities and mission-specific exercises, became a model for the "Green Berets" and other special forces groups. David Saul knits together first-hand accounts and documents to show how these too-often forgotten heroes managed a string of incredible feats with strategic importance to WWII.

In 1939, a horrific triple murder occurred in Oklahoma. As pressure mounted to find a villain, prosecutors settled on a black farmer named W. D. Lyons, who was arrested and tortured into signing a confession. This book tells the story of Lyons v. Oklahoma, the oft-forgotten case that set Marshall and the NAACP on the path that led ultimately to victory in Brown v. Board of Education and the accompanying social revolution.

Les années suivant la création du Dominion du Canada en 1867, le territoire canadien connait une expansion fulgurante. Face à la menace grandissante des trafiquants d'alcool et des brigands régnant sur l'Ouest américain, la mise en place d'une force de police devient rapidement nécessaire pour assurer l'ordre et la sécurité dans la vaste étendue des prairies et des régions du Nord. C'est ainsi qu'est créée la Police à cheval du Nord-Ouest en 1873, chargée de faire régner une justice impartiale.

Ce livre de la collection « À la découverte du Canada » redonne vie à une époque mémorable, celle d'un Canada habité par les autochtones avant l'arrivée des Européens. Qui sont ces peuples? Où habitaient-ils? Quels étaient leurs légendes, leurs mythes, leurs héros et leur divinité? Les Premières nations permet aux jeunes lecteursd'apprendre de façon interactive et amusante. On y apprend à construire une maison longue typiquement iroquoise, à jouer à un jeu inuit, à créerson propre totem et bien plus encore...

Four years after Therese Greenwood and her husband moved to Fort McMurray, Alberta, their new community was devastated by one of the worst wildfires in Canadian history. As the flames approached, they had only minutes to pack, narrowly escaping a fire that would rage for weeks, burn more than 85,000 hectares and force 80,000 people to flee. This skilfully told first-person account is more than a disaster narrative: Greenwood's experience and skill as a journalist and a mystery writer engages and maintains suspense.

The Rocking P Ranch was one of the most ambitious family ranches in Southern Alberta. Founded in 1900 by Roderick Riddle Macleay, the Rocking P flourished during the Second Cattle Frontier as open-range the Texas System ranches failed. Beginning in 1923, Maxine and Dorothy Macleay edited, reported, and published The Rocking P Gazette, a monthly newspaper grounded in the daily life of the Rocking P Ranch.

The history of Branching Out, Canada's first national magazine of second-wave feminism, is the surprising story of an upstart magazine published on the prairies that was read from coast to coast. It is an Edmonton-based story of political activism, feminist community-building, and survival in the cultural industries. When it ceased publication in 1980, Branching Out had reached more readers than any other Canadian second-wave feminist periodical.