Dundurn: 2215 books
Amazing Airmen
Canadian Flyers in the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2009
Canadian and British airmen engaged in fierce and deadly battles in the skies over Europe during the Second World War. Those who survived often had to overcome incredible obstacles to do so -- dodging bullets and German troops, escaping from burning planes and enduring forced marches if they became...
Ringing the Changes
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2015
First published in 1957, Mazo de la Roche’s last autobiography is a vivid look at her life in Ontario, and a parting shot at her critics.
Mazo de la Roche was once Canada’s best-known writer, loved by millions of readers around the world. Her Jalna series is filled with unforgettable characters...
Sowing Poison
A Thaddeus Lewis Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
After an absence of many years, Nathan Elliott returns to the lakeside village of Wellington in Ontario's Prince Edward County to be at his dying father's side. Within a few days of his return, his brother reports that Nathan disappeared while the two were cutting firewood and no trace of him can...
The Refugee
Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
In the early 1850s, white American abolitionist Benjamin Drew was commissioned to travel to Canada West (now Ontario) to interview escaped slaves from the United States. At the time the population of Canada West was just short of a million and about 30,000 black people lived in the colony, most of...
by Richard Aldington
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 1998
"Death of a Hero", published in 1929 was the author’s literary response to the war. He went on to publish several works of fiction. In 1942, having moved to the United States, he began to write biographies. This last work was very controversial, as it was highly critical of the man still regarded as a war hero.
For Valour
Canadians and the Victoria Cross in the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
The collected stories of the Canadian recipients of the Victoria Cross, the highest military decoration.
As Canada came into its own as a nation during the First World War, proving itself capable of standing alongside Britain on the world stage, scores of Canadians were awarded the Commonwealth’s...
by Gregory Fremont-Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2016
The Battle of Waterloo is one of the most important moments in military history.
The might of the French Empire under the leadership of the Emperor Napoleon faced the Coalition army under Duke of Wellington and Gerhard von Blucher for one last time at Waterloo.
The battle saw the culmination...
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent
Father of the Canadian Crown
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2013
The story of Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent (1767-1820) is also a story of early Canada. An active participant in the very genesis of the country, including discussions that would eventually lead to Confederation, the Prince lived in Quebec City, undertook historic tours of Upper Canada and...
Now You Know Pirates
The Little Book of Answers
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2008
Shiver me timbers and avast ye hearties! We think we know pirates, from Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow to Errol Flynn as Captain Blood, or literature’s Long John Silver and Captain Hook. But what do we really know? The true Blackbeard, Captain Kidd, Sir Henry Morgan, and lots more, from ancient...
Treasure and Intrigue
The Legacy of Captain Kidd
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
Three hundred years ago, Captain Kidd was hanged for piracy, but before died he claimed to have hidden a vast fortune in the Indies. In the years since, maps to the fabled island have appeared and there have been many attempts to recover that treasure. This book examines Kidd’s life against the...
Solving the People Puzzle
Cultural Intelligence and Special Operations Forces
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2010
The twenty-first century has brought the perfect storm of conditions to create substantive global instability. This contemporary operating environment (COE) is characterized by complexity, ambiguity, volatility, and constant danger. It is a human invention that requires a human solution.
Special...
Irresponsible Government
The Decline of Parliamentary Democracy in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
2015 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize — Shortlisted, Non-Fiction
In Irresponsible Government, former MP Brent Rathgeber takes Parliament to task for its failure to hold the government to account.
Irresponsible Government examines the current state of Canadian democracy in contrast to the...
Dalton McGuinty
Making a Difference
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2015
2016 Speaker's Book Award — Shortlisted
Former Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty shares the story of his life in politics and the leadership lessons he has learned.
Dalton McGuinty was premier of Ontario for ten years, from 2003 to 2013. Inheriting a province wounded from years of cutbacks...
Rebellion in the Mohawk Valley
The St. Leger Expedition of 1777
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2002
In the summer of 1777, while the British and the Americans were engaged in the bitter American Revolution, a massive campaign was launched from Canada into New York State.
Brigadier Barry St. Leger led a crucial expedition from Lake Ontario into the Mohawk Valley. The goal was to travel by...