A colourful and revealing look at more than 500 years of commerce conducted at the renowned Frankfurt Book Fair, from its beginnings in the Middle Ages. Even then, in spite of internal strife and religious upheaval, books were becoming increasingly accessible to those who found their way to Frankfurt to buy, sell, and promote. The fact that King Henry VIII sent Sir Thomas Bodley as his personal emissary to purchase books for the new library at Oxford University is an indication of the Fair’s...
Women in the military? To many, never was too soon. But by 1940, British women were out «doing their bit» for the war effort, and Canadians battled for that same right. Young Canadian women wanted to serve their country, «to free a man to fight,» as the recruiting posters urged. By the war’s end almost 50,000 of them were in the forces. Carolyn Gossage has compiled a fascinating collage of anecdotal and documentary material. The colourful story of Canada’s «forgotten women» – those who...
In April 1941, a passenger ship was attacked and sunk by Nazi Germans. This is the story of seven Canadian women survivors detained in Germany. In April 1941, seven Canadian women became prisoners of war while on a voyage from New York City to Cape Town. Their aging Egyptian liner, the Zamzam , was sunk off the coast of South Africa by the German raider Atlantis . The passengers were transferred to a prison ship and eventually put ashore in Nazi-occupied France. As «non-aliens,» all 140...
