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  • The Rise And Fall Of Apartheid

    From Racial Domination To Majority Rule

    by David Welsh ...
    On his way into Parliament on 2 February 1990 FW de Klerk turned to his wife Marike and said, referring to his forthcoming speech: 'South Africa will never be the same again after this.' Did white South Africa crack, or did its leadership yield sufficiently and just in time to avert a revolution? The transformation has been called a miracle, belying gloomy predictions of race war in which the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Doll

    by Boleslaw Prus ...
    Translated by David Welsh ...
    Boleslaw Prus is often compared to Chekhov, and Prus’s masterpiece might be described as an intimate epic, a beautifully detailed, utterly absorbing exploration of life in late-nineteenth-century Warsaw, which is also a prophetic reckoning with some of the social forces—imperialism, nationalism, anti-Semitism among them—that would soon convulse Europe as never before. ButThe Dollis above all a ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • Hope is the Last to Die

    A Coming of Age Under Nazi Terror

    by Halina Birenbaum ...
    Translated by David Welsh ...
    This book is an important work in Holocaust literature and was originally published in Poland in 1967. Covering the years 1939-1945, it is the author's account of her experience growing up in the Warsaw ghetto and her eventual deportation to, imprisonment in, and survival of the Majdanek, Auschwitz, Ravensbruck, and Neustadt-Glewe camps. Since the old, the weak, and children were summarily ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • The Social Railway and Its Workers in Europe’s Modern Era, 1880-2023

    Moments of Fury, Ramparts of Hope

    by Dr David Welsh ...
    This thematically arranged book examines the evolution of rail transport and a number of railway workforces across Europe in the modern era, from around 1880 to 2023.Each chapter explores how, within the context of a social railway, rail workers developed distinct national and international perspectives on the nature of their work and their roles in societies and states. David Welsh convincingly ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • Ending Apartheid

    by Jack Spence, David Welsh ...
    Series series Turning Points
    The release of Nelson Mandela from twenty-seven years imprisonment in 1990 and the free elections which followed four years later were among the most dramatic events of the twentieth century.David Welsh and J. E. Spence here examine the complex forces which lay behind that drama. They chart the rise and decline of apartheid ideology in South Africa, the internal insurrection and increased ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

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  • Postwar

    A History of Europe Since 1945

    by Tony Judt ...
    **Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award • One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century“Impressive . . . Mr. Judt writes with enormous authority.” —The Wall Street Journal“Magisterial . . . It is, without a doubt, the most comprehensive, authoritative, and yes, readable postwar history.” —The Boston Globe**Almost a ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Borderlines

    The fascinating history of Europe in 29 borders from leading political analyst and Tim Marshall's 'borders expert'

    by Lewis Baston ...
    A timely, enthralling history of Europe unlike any other: perfect for fans of A History of the World in 47 Borders and Prisoners of Geography.'One of the most engaging and fascinating histories of Europe I've read for years.' DOMINIC SANDBROOK, co-host of The Rest Is History podcastEurope's internal borders have rarely been 'natural'; they have more often been created by accident or force.In ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

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  • The War of the World

    Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West

    by Niall Ferguson ...
    From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower"Even those who have read widely in 20th-century history will find fresh, surprising details." —The Boston Globe"A fascinating read, thanks to Ferguson's gifts as a writer of clear, energetic narrative history." —The Washington PostAstonishing in its scope and erudition, this is the magnum opus that Nia... ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • The Little Third Reich on Lake Superior

    A History of Canadian Internment Camp R

    by Ernest Robert Zimmermann ...
    An in-depth history of one of Canada's World War II internment camps that held both Nazis and anti-Nazis alike.For eighteen months during the Second World War, the Canadian military interned 1,145 prisoners of war in Red Rock, Ontario (about 100 kilometres northeast of Thunder Bay). Camp R interned friend and foe alike: Nazis, anti-Nazis, Jews, soldiers, merchant seamen, and refugees whom Britain ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • None Is Too Many

    Canada and the Jews of Europe, 1933-1948

    by Irving Abella, Harold Troper ...
    Winner of the National Jewish Book Award (Holocaust Category)Winner of the Canadian Historical Association John A. Macdonald PrizeFeatured in The Literary Review of Canada 100: Canada’s Most Important Books[This] is a story best summed up in the words of an anonymous senior Canadian official who, in the midst of a rambling, off-the-record discussion with journalists in 1945, was asked how many ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • The Long Shadow

    The Legacies of the Great War in the Twentieth Century

    by David Reynolds, Ph.D. ...
    **Winner of the 2014 PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for the Best Work of History"Brilliant…the most challenging and intelligent book on the Great War and our perceptions of it that any of us will read." —John Charley, The Times [London]**One of the most violent conflicts in the history of civilization, World War I has been strangely forgotten in American culture. It has become a ghostly war fought in a ... Read more

    $16.69 CAD

  • "The Saddest Ship Afloat"

    The Tragedy of the MS St. Louis

    by Allison Lawlor ...
    Series series Stories of Our Past
    A true story of hundreds of Jewish refugees and the sea journey they hoped would save them.On May 13, 1939, the eve of the Second World War, the MS St. Louis left port in Hamburg, Germany, headed for Havana, Cuba. Among the ship's passengers were more than six hundred Jews attempting to escape Nazi rule. But most of the visas the passengers had purchased turned out to be fake, and after several ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus