Hugh Brewster

Presents an account of the ship's first-class passengers and their world, drawing on original research to place their lives within an arc of the Titanic's demise, explaining how their stories reflect key tenets of the Edwardian era.

The Titanic's First-Class Passengers and Their World

Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage

A scrapbook derived from journals, letters, photographs, and watercolor paintings provides glimpes into the life of the youngest daughter of Russia's last tsar

Anastasia's Album

A scrapbook derived from journals, letters, photographs, and watercolor paintings provides glimpes into the life of the youngest daughter of Russia's last tsar.

Fatal Voyage Guilded Lives

Laurie Coulter

Questions and answers present information about the building, passengers, launching, sailing, sinking, and rediscovery of the Titanic, accompanied by illustrations, archival images, and step-by-step diagrams.

882 1/2 Amazing Answers to Your Questions about the Titanic

April 14, 2012, marks the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. The “unsinkable subject,” the story of the giant ship that sank on its maiden voyage, has become one of our most potent modern parables and enduring metaphors. The image of the ship’s plunging stern is an icon, and expressions like “rearranging the deck chairs” and “hitting the iceberg” need no explanation. Yet on a cold, clear April night the disaster happened to real people—stokers, millionaires, society ladies, parsons, parlourmaids—people who displayed a full range of all-too-human reactions as the events of the night unfolded. With new research, R.M.S. Titanic weaves the dramatic story of that fateful crossing with compelling portraits of the people on board—those who survived, and those who tragically lost their lives—allowing us to place ourselves on that sloping deck and ask, “What would we do?”

Gilded Lives On A Fatal Voyage

Rms Titanic

June 6th, 2004 will mark the 60th anniversary of D-Day, when Canadians landed on Juno Beach. This outstanding book contains unpublished accounts of D-Day eyewitnesses and participants, and through their eyes we are able to see what it was like to live through the assault on Hitler's Atlantic Wall and the massive invasion that followed. Captivating photographs and memorabilia bring these stories to life, and the topic of Juno Beach works directly with school curriculum

Canada's D-Day Heroes

On Juno Beach

April 9, 2007 marks the 90th anniversary of the pivotal World War I battle- one that many historians view as the battle that defined Canada as a nation. At Vimy Ridge, Canadian soldiers achieved what more experienced soldiers From Britain and France could not-taking the strategic position of Vimy Ridge from the Germans. It was the battle that helped a young country discover its national pride, as for the first time, Canadians fought as Canadians, and achieved a significant victory.The soaring Vimy Memorial in France is built on land ceded to Canada for achieving this stunning victory. The stunning memorial is being restored and will be rededicated in 2007. At Vimy Ridge is the perfect book for schools and libraries to mark this vital anniversary.

Canada's Greatest World War I Victory

At Vimy Ridge

Presents the life and accomplishments of Joseph Bologne, the racially-mixed son of a French aristocrat, who became a famous fencing champion, a violinist, composer, and a colonel in the French army in 1792, during France's war with Austria.

The Life of the Famous Chevalier de Saint-George

The Other Mozart

Ken Marschall

Step on board the world's largest ship for the most famous voyage of all time. INSIDE THE TITANIC's unique cut-a-way illustrations by the world's leading Titanic artist reveal this huge liner in stunning detail. Readers are invited to explore every deck of the legendary liner - from the Grand Staircase to the huge dining saloon and the luxurious Turkish baths. A spectacular four-page fold-out gives the most complete view ever of this veritable floating city that was home to over two thousand people. The book includes a look at the very heart of the ship - its bridge - on the night that disaster struck. Full-page illustrations show how the liner collided with the iceberg and depict the water slowly filling the ship after the fatal collision. Finally, words and pictures re-create the last hours of the Titanic's life as the unsinkable ship disappeared beneath the sea...

Inside the Titanic

Provides a glimpse into the lives of the world's most captivating princesses, including Mary, Elizabeth I, Marie Antoinette, and Anastasia.

The Fascinating Lives of Real Princesses

To Be a Princess

John Singer Sargent

As the model for John Singer Sargent's latest work, young Kate Millet finds it hard to keep still during the long painting process, but when her father's friend arrives with his two daughters and they begin to share her spotlight, young Kate's disappointment is hard to conceal.

The Story of a Painting

Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose

Don Lynch

Greg Curtis

After James Cameron's blockbuster movie Titanic, which became the highest earning film of all time, and the touring exhibition of the film set, interest in the events on that fateful night of 14th April 1912 is sky-high. Titanic fever is well and truly here. And 882 1/2 Amazing Answers to your Questions about the Titanic is the one book with all the answers to any questions! (882 1/2 feet was the length of the Titanic!) Here is the complete, heart-stopping story of the legendary ship - from its building, maiden voyage and tragic sinking, to its high-tech discovery and exploration on the ocean floor. Special features include the making of James Cameron's movie Titanic, a true-or-false quiz, and the real-life stories of the young people who sailed on the fateful voyage. This amazing book is illustrated with dozens of paintings, diagrams, and rare photographs.

A young soldier's gritty account of "the bloodiest nine hours in Canadian military history" - the tragic Dieppe raid of WWII Alistair "Allie" Morrison lets his friend Mackie talk him into enlisting for WWII, even though he's only 18. After months of endless training Allie's eager for battle. But his first action is not just any battle... it's the disastrous raid on the German-held port of Dieppe. He and his unit are under orders to take one of the main beaches, but they disembark from their landing craft onto a killing ground. As Allie gets his bearings and makes sense of the horror on every side, he witnesses friends advance into a massacre. All told, almost a thousand Canadian soldiers died that day. In the resulting chaotic evacuation, Allie and Mackie are captured as POWs and sent to Stalag VIIIB in Germany. Still shell-shocked from their fighting, the soldiers struggle to maintain their courage. Others, like Mackie, are determined to plot an escape and outwit their captors, at any cost. Historian Jack Granatstein vetted Prisoner of Dieppe to ensure historical accuracy.

Word War II, Alistair Morrison, Occupied France, 1942

I Am Canada: Prisoner of Dieppe

Alan Barnard

When Bertie the badger visits his grandfather at a retirement home for magicians, he learns that his grandfather's rabbit, Enigma, has disappeared along with everyone's magical things, and the reader is invited to help break a code to find the items hidden throughout the book. Includes a built-in decoder.

The Coolest, Scariest Creatures Ever Found in the USA!

Dinosaurs in Your Backyard

Eric Sauder

Mementos of the Maiden Voyage

The Titanic Collection

Historical fact and fiction blend in this riveting novel set aboard the Titanic. Fourteen-year-old Jamie Laidlaw is returning to Canada from England aboard the Titanic. In his four days on board, he busies himself with new friends, finding ways to explore the ship's forbidden areas, and generally landing himself in trouble. When disaster strikes and the horrifying scramble for survival ensues, Jamie is on the front lines - struggling to help free the lifeboats and get people on board them. When a huge wave washes over the ship's sloping deck, it's time for Jamie to take action - and take his fate into his own hands. With hundreds of others, he dives into the sea, hoping he will find a way to survive. Since its launch in Fall 2010, the I Am Canada series has been praised for its accurate and energetic exploration of fascinating moments in Canadian history, through the eyes of young men who lived through them. In Deadly Voyage, award-winning author and noted Titanic historian Hugh Brewster draws from his vast knowledge of that fateful journey to create an enthralling tale of historical fiction - the ultimate adventure, whose terrifying end we know all too well.

R.M.S. Titanic, Jamie Laidlaw, Crossing the Atlantic, 1912

I Am Canada: Deadly Voyage

À quatorze ans, Jamie Laidlaw revient au Canada. Il quitte l'Angleterre sur le Titanic qui fait son voyage inaugural. Mais le navire heurte un iceberg et sombre, emportant avec lui 1 500 personnes. La nuit du naufrage, Jamie réussit à atteindre un canot retourné et grimpe dessus. Des cris affolés déchirent la nuit avant de s'éteindre peu à peu... Jamie doit lutter toute la nuit dans le froid glacial pour garder son équilibre sur le canot retourné qui risque à tout moment de couler. Une fois à bord du navire de secours le Carpathia, Jamie doit accepter le fait que son père s'est noyé. Parmi les 2 200 passagers du Titanic, environ le tiers a survécu. À New York, les rescapés sont abasourdis de voir les milliers de personnes qui attendent l'arrivée du Carpathia : c'est l'histoire du siècle. Quelques semaines plus tard, Jamie apprend que le corps de son père a été retrouvé et qu'il a été envoyé à Halifax. Il entreprend alors de s'y rendre avec son frère. Fourteen-year-old Jamie Laidlaw is returning to Canada from England on the Titanic's maiden voyage, when the ship strikes an iceberg and sinks, with a loss of 1500 lives. Fortunately, Jamie survives and manages to scramble aboard an overturned lifeboat. Frantic cries fill the night, lessening more and more as people in the water freeze and die, leaving an unearthly silence. Of the 2200 people on the Titanic, only 705 survived. In New York, the survivors are astounded to see ten thousand people awaiting the rescue ship Carpathia's arrival - it is the news story of the century. Weeks later Jamie learns that his father's body was recovered, and is being returned to Halifax. He begins the journey there, with his brother, to bring his father's body home for burial. Original title: I Am Canada: Deadly Voyage

RMS Titanic, Jamie Laidlaw, La traversée de l'Atlantique, 1912

Au Canada : Voyage mortel

April 9, 2007 marks the 90th anniversary of the pivotal World War I battle - one that many historians view as the battle that defined Canada as a nation. At Vimy Ridge, Canadian soldiers achieved what more experienced soldiers from Britain and France could not - taking the strategic position of Vimy Ridge from the Germans. It was the battle that helped a young country discover its national pride, as for the first time, Canadians fought as Canadians, and achieved a significant victory.

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