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My Father's War
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How an ordinary family survived extraordinary circumstances, while also helping others through a perilous period of modern Dutch history. With arrest and starvation, frequent hazards under the Nazi regime, lives could unexpectedly be changed or...
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Mrs. Simcoe
A Life in the Age of Revolution
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Born into war and orphaned at birth, Elizabeth Posthuma Gwillim Simcoe lived through some of the most dramatic upheavals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. From the genteel world of the English landed gentry to rugged colonial Canada,...
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From Ancient Gaul to Canada
A Trip Through the Enchanting History of French Canadians
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From the Celtic peoples of ancient Gaul to the French settlers of Québec, this is the epic tale of how we became Canadians. In 390 BC, the ancient ancestors of the French-speaking peoples lived in a huge region of western Europe known as Gaul....
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I am Saxon
A History of the Transylvanian Saxons
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I Am Saxon chronicles the history of the little-known Transylvanian Saxons. From their humble beginnings in the 12th century as immigrants to a remote and sparsely populated area in the southern basin of the Carpathian Mountains, the Saxons...
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Life at the Top of the World
Growing Up on Sweden's Arctic Circle
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'Life at the Top of the World: Growing Up on Sweden's Arctic Circle' highlights the story of Maria Maki Anttila, a Finnish-Swede residing in the northern hamlet of Juoksengi. Born in a sauna overlooking the Tornio River in the late 1800s, Maria...
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Stooks on the Horizon
The Story of a Prairie Family Homestead
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This is a story of land, a farm that was not just the giver of life’s sustenance but a character in its own right, with its own spirit and vitality found in its black earth, pastures, woods, and sloughs as it moves through seasons. When faded,...
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Axis Rising
The Beginner's Guide to The Second World War
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Axis Rising: The Beginner’s Guide to the Second World War is the book to read for a quick, easy-to-understand, yet comprehensive overview of World War Two. Beginning with the birth of Hitler and following through the entire war and its aftermath,...
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The Narrow Path
The Known Ancestors of Brenna Wagenbach
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This family history explores the ancestry of the Wagenbach and Wiegand families. The book traces the origins of these families in Germany, among Amish Mennonites in Switzerland and France, and in Puritan England, culminating in the emigration of...
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The English Trip of 1910
Toronto, Sir Henry Pellatt, the Queen's Own Rifles and the Press Gang
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The year 1910 saw the 50th anniversary of the Queen’s Own Rifles, Canada’s longest-serving reserve regiment. To celebrate this landmark, a series of events, military parades, and spectacular historical pageants featuring hundreds of participants...
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The Life of a Romanian WWI Prisoner of War
A War Journal
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Readers today are watching the voices of those who endured the First and Second World Wars diminish or disappear, unheard, altogether. To preserve, illuminate, and share her great-grandfather’s memories for future generations, Emma Dirk has...