Between 1973 and 1978, six thousand Chileans leftists took refuge in central Canada after the Pinochet coup d’état. Once resettled at the northern extreme of the Americas, these political exiles had to find ways of coping with an abrupt...
Cold War (1945-1989)
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Author:Peddie, Francis, Loewen, RoydenSummary: -
Author:Wynne-Jones, TimSummary:Rex Zero and the End of the WorldIt's the summer of 1962, and to twelve-year-old Rex the world is starting to look like a pretty scary place. On TV there are reports about the Russians and a nuclear war. Some people in his new...
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Author:Gaddis, John LewisSummary:From "the dean of Cold War historians" (New York times): an important new reckoning with the hostile relationship that defined our age.
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Author:Mackay, Robert W.Summary:A military thriller set on a submarine during the Cold War. The year is 1962 and the Cuban Missile Crisis is brewing. Naval lieutenant Ted Hawkins is sent to sea aboard the HMCS Alert. The submarine’s mission is to shadow an aggressive...
- Author:Yelchin, EugeneSummary:
In this noir mystery middle grade from Newbery Honor author Eugene Yelchin, a boy stumbles upon a secret that jeopardizes American national security. It's 1953 and the Cold War is on. Communism threatens all that the United States...
- Author:ARCHER, GeoffreySummary:
Project Skydancer; the brainchild of the Ministry of Defence and terrifying in its simplicity. New warheads had been designed that could evade the batteries of anti-ballistic missiles the Russians had set up around Moscow. For...
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Author:Wynne-Jones, TimSummary:It's the summer of 1962, and to twelve-year-old Rex the world is starting to look like a pretty scary place. On TV there are reports about the Russians and a nuclear war. Some people in his new neighborhood are even building bomb...
- Author:Anderson, JenniferSummary:
During the early Cold War, thousands of Canadians attended events organized by the Canadian-Soviet Friendship Society (CSFS) and subscribed to its publications. The CSFS aimed its message at progressive Canadians, hoping to convince...
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Author:Mystery Writers of AmericaSummary:Selected by Jeffrey Deaver and Raymond Benson, this is a collection of mystery/thriller short stories from some of today's top writers.Nuclear brinksmanship, psychological warfare, spies, double agents, femmes fatales, and dead drops'...
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Author:Sweatman, MargaretSummary:Winner, Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction. Shortlisted, McNally Robinson Book of the Year and ReLit Award (Novel). Award-winning author Margaret Sweatman has proven herself a virtuoso writer of historical fiction. Yet nothing she has...
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Author:Zimmerman, DavidSummary:The Royal Canadian Navy crews that sailed the Atlantic during the early Cold War held a contemptuous view of their West Coast brethren, likening the Pacific fleet to a “yacht club” where sailors enjoyed a life of leisurely service on a...
- Author:Watson, PeterSummary:
The justification for the atomic bomb was simple: it would defeat Hitler and end the Second World War faster, saving lives. The reality was different. [This book] dismantles the conventional story of why the atom bomb was built. Peter...
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Author:Follett, Ken.Summary:Edge of Eternity, the finale, covers one of the most tumultuous eras of all: the 1960s through the 1980s, encompassing civil rights, assassinations, Vietnam, the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, presidential impeachment,...
- Author:Raska, JanSummary:
During the Cold War, more than 36,000 individuals entering Canada claimed Czechoslovakia as their country of citizenship. A defining characteristic of this migration of predominantly political refugees was the prevalence of anti-...
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Author:Touhey, RyanSummary:In 1974, India shocked the world by detonating a nuclear device. In the diplomatic controversy that ensued, the Canadian government expressed outrage that India had extracted plutonium from a Canadian reactor donated only for peaceful...
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Author:Carew, AnthonySummary:During the Cold War, American labour organizations were at the centre of the battle for the hearts and minds of working people. At a time when trade unions were a substantial force in both American and European politics, the fiercely...
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Author:Carre, John Le.Summary:The undisputed master returns with a riveting new book-his first Smiley novel in more than twenty-five years Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, is...
