Allen Lane imprint: 15 books
A History of Canada in Ten Maps
Epic Stories of Charting a Mysterious Land
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
**Winner of the 2018 Louise de Kiriline Lawrence Award for Nonfiction
Longlisted for the 2018 RBC Taylor Prize
Shortlisted for the 2018 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction
The sweeping, epic story of the mysterious land that came to be called “Canada” like it’s...
Vimy
The Battle and the Legend
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
**#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Winner of the 2018 JW Dafoe Book Prize
Longlisted for British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction 2018
Runner-up for the 2018 Templer Medal Book Prize
Finalist for the 2018 Ottawa Book Awards
A bold new telling of the defining battle of the Great War,...
by Tim Cook
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Co-winner of the 2014-2015 Charles P. Stacey Award
Tim Cook, Canada’s leading war historian, ventures deep into World War Two in this epic two-volume story of heroism and horror, of loss and longing, sacrifice and endurance.
Written in Cook’s compelling narrative style, this book...
The History of Canada Series: The Best Place To Be
Expo '67 And Its Time
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
A pivotal event in Canada’s history For six months in 1967, from late April until the end of October, Canada and its world's fair, Expo 67, became the focus of national and international attention in a way the country and its people had rarely experienced. Expo 67 crystallized the buoyant mood and...
Fight to the Finish
Canadians in the Second World War, 1944-1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
**Winner of the 2016 Ottawa Book Award
The magisterial second volume of Tim Cook's definitive account of Canadians fighting in the Second World War.**
Historian Tim Cook displays his trademark storytelling ability in the second volume of his masterful account of Canadians in World...
The Secret History of Soldiers
How Canadians Survived the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
There have been thousands of books on the Great War, but most have focused on commanders, battles, strategy, and tactics. Less attention has been paid to the daily lives of the combatants, how they endured the unimaginable conditions of industrial warfare: the rain of shells, bullets, and chemical...
by Otto Dov Kulka
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
In a life dedicated to studying and writing about Nazism and the Holocaust, Otto Dov Kulka has set to one side his experiences as a child inmate at Auschwitz. Breaking years of silence, Kulka brings together the personal and historical in a devastating, at times poetic, account of the concentration camps and the private mythology he constructed.
The History of Canada Series - The Last Act: Pierre Trudeau
The Gang Of Eight And The Fight For Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Between the morning of Wednesday, November 4, and the morning of Thursday, November 5, 1981, a fateful drama unfolded that changed Canada forever.
In one last attempt to renew the constitution with the consent of the provinces, Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau met behind closed doors in...
Better Now
Six Big Ideas to Improve Health Care for All Canadians
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Longlisted for British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction 2018
Dr. Danielle Martin sees the challenges in our health care system every day. As a family doctor and a hospital vice president, she observes how those deficiencies adversely affect patients. And as a health policy...
by Adrienne Clarkson
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
In this exciting and revealing personal inquiry, former governor general Adrienne Clarkson explores the immigrant experience through the people who have helped transform Canada.
The Canadians she befriends—whether an Ismaili doctor, a Doukhobor farmer, a Holocaust survivor, or a Vietnam War...
The History of Canada Series: Three Weeks in Quebec City
The Meeting That Made Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
In 1864, thirty-three delegates from five provincial legislatures came to Quebec City to pursue the idea of uniting all the provinces of British North America. The American Civil War, not yet over, encouraged the small and barely defended provinces to consider uniting for mutual protection. But there...
The History of Canada Series: Death or Victory
The Battle For Quebec And The Birth Of An Empire
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
Perched atop a tall promontory and surrounded on three sides by the treacherous St. Lawrence River, Quebec City forms an almost impregnable natural fortress. But in 1759, with the Seven Years War raging around the globe, the capital city of New France came under attack. With the irascible British...
Beyond the Trees
A Journey Alone Across Canada's Arctic
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2019
A thrilling odyssey through an unforgiving landscape, from "Canada's greatest living explorer."
In the spring of 2017, Adam Shoalts, bestselling author and adventurer, set off on an unprecedented solo journey across North America's greatest wilderness. A place where, in our increasingly interconnected,...
The Raisina Model
Indian Democracy at 70
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
Meghnad Desai reflects on Indian democracy as it completes seventy years of colourful, eventful and energetic parliamentary existence. Pulling no punches, Desai looks at the history and evolution of Indian democratic institutions, pinpointing their achievements, but also their repeated failure to...
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