The novel focuses on a set of characters from both the North and the South, providing a multi-perspective view of the war. Central to the story are two young men, one from the Union and the other from the Confederacy, who become the embodiments of their respective sides. As the war progresses, these characters experience the brutal realities of battle, the hardships faced by soldiers, and the emotional turmoil caused by the conflict.The narrative also delves into the lives of the families ...

If Ontario is the land that is ours to discover then surely Randall White has written a book of discovery. Ontario 1610-1985 fulfills the need for a comprehensive text that chronicles the history of one of the founding provinces of Confederation, a province that has provided a vital legacy for Canada.Ontario 1610-1985 is for the general reader and an invaluable text for teachers and students of Canadian and Ontario history. Randall white concentrates his account of Ontario's past a...

In "The Blue and the Gray; Or, The Civil War as Seen by a Boy," Annie Randall White offers a poignant and immersive depiction of the American Civil War through the eyes of a young boy. Written in a lyrical and evocative style, the narrative captures the innocence of childhood amidst the harsh realities of war. White's unique perspective emphasizes not only the historical events but also the emotional landscape of her characters, drawing upon rich imagery and vivid descriptions that immerse...

America Divided: 40 Civil War Novels surveys the conflict not as a single national epic but as a fractured imaginative terrain. Spanning battle narrative, romance, adventure tale, regional realism, historical reconstruction, satire, and domestic fiction, the volume registers war's military violence alongside its effects on households, communities, race relations, sectional memory, and political belonging. Vivid scenes of campaigning and captivity stand beside narratives of divided loyaltie...

The Complete Works of Annie Randall WhiteA British writer and thinker and philosopher.This collection includes the following:he Blue and The Gray Or, The Civil War as Seen by a Boy

40 Must-Read Civil War Novels surveys the American Civil War through an expansive spectrum of popular, historical, regional, and psychologically searching fiction. Ranging from battlefield narratives and espionage plots to domestic dramas, romances, Reconstruction tales, and stories shaped by sectional memory, the volume reveals how the conflict entered literary culture long after the firing ceased. Starkly ironic war writing stands beside adventure fiction, sentimental narrative, and hist...

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 Jews would be allowed into Canada after the war … ‘None,’ he...

Ottawa Book Award 2015 — ShortlistedBetween 1918 and 1921 a great storm blew through Canada and raised the expectations of a new world in which all things would be possible.|The years after World War I were among the most tumultuous in Canadian history: a period of unremitting change, drama, and conflict. They were, in the words of Stephen Leacock, “a time such as there never was before.”The war had been a great crusade, promising a world made new. But it h...

Rails Across Ontario will take the reader back to a time when the railway ruled the economy and the landscape.Read about historic stations, railway museums, heritage train rides, and historic bridges. Follow old rail lines along Ontario's most popular rail trails. Find out where steam engines still puff across farm fields and where historic train coaches lead deep into the wilds of Ontario's scenic north country. Discover long forgotten but once vital railway structures, s...

Explore Ontario's historic roads, each with unexpected side trips and a fascinating story.In his relentless quest for the unusual in a world of the mundane, modern-day explorer Ron Brown has traveled nearly every backroad in Ontario. This guidebook features 22 trips, each illustrated with photographs and accompanied by an easy-to-follow map.These trips range in length from afternoon outings to weekend excursions. And all lead to fascinating out-of-...

Brown celebrates the survival of our railway heritage in stations that have been saved or remain in use.Despite the "green" benefits of rail travel, Canada has lost much of its railway heritage. Across the country stations have been bulldozed and rails ripped up. Once the heart of communities large and small, stations and tracks have left little more than a gaping hole in Canada’s landscapes. This book revisits the times when railways were the country’s economic lifelines, and the ...

Canadians of Scottish descent, who today total over 4.7 million, have never made up more than 16 per cent of Canada’s population. Yet they have supplied thirteen of twenty-two Canadian prime ministers, and have made proportionate contributions in exploration, education, banking, military service, railroading, invention, literature, you name it.Award-winning author Ken McGoogan has written a vivid, sweeping narrative showcasing more than sixty Scots who have shaped Canada. They incl...