Piecing together the last days of Imperial Japan
PAT MURPHY: Historical animosity between Japan and the Soviet Union shaped the final act of the Second World War
Tag: Non-fiction books
Caesar and Alexander – heroes, villains, or both?
PAT MURPHY in BOOKS: Projecting modern values back over two thousand years is the tricky bit
When Buffalo Bill took London by storm
PAT MURPHY: Buffalo Bill was an interesting blend of the authentic and the fictional. Most of all, he was a gifted showman
The Canadian who helped tame America’s Wild West
PAT MURPHY: Born in Quebec, Bat Masterson set out to find adventure on America’s frontier – and he found plenty
Riding the Toonerville Trolley in Kentucky…or New York?
MICHAEL TAUBE: Fontaine Fox’s Toonerville Trolley was the first proper collection of Fox’s legendary comic strip Toonerville Folks
Tying up the loose ends on Flora Macdonald’s story
Flora Macdonald, who helped Bonnie Prince Charlie escape after the Battle of Culloden, was nothing if not a practical woman
Flora Macdonald, from Scottish rebel to loyalist
PAT MURPHY in BOOKS: Flora Macdonald helped Boonie Prince Charlie escape to France after the disastrous Battle of Culloden
Popular historian Paul Johnson dead at 94
BOOKS: An enthusiastic polemicist, Johnson had no qualms about giving voice to his particular perspective on the world
Liberal disloyalty toward John Turner was truly shocking
PAT MURPHY: After the Trudeau-Chretien wing of the party turned on him, an offer of help came from an unlikely source – Brian Mulroney
1889 book provides a way forward for Aboriginal policy today
BOOKS: An eye-opening description of Aboriginal culture as it was in the 1880s
Every man is not in it for himself
GERRY CHIDIAC in BOOKS: The vast majority of us get along with our neighbours
The Search for Bridey Murphy a tale of reincarnation
PAT MURPHY: Sales of the book far outpaced expectations
What an aging society will mean for inequality, inflation
PAT MURPHY: A labour shortage will reduce income inequality. But inflation will trend higher
Windsor bookstore’s highly successful venture into publishing
MICHAEL TAUBE: Biblioasis has recently released two new books, one on baseball, the other on the origins of Covid
BOOKS: The assassination of Sir Henry Wilson Ireland’s Sarajevo?
PAT MURPHY: Regardless of the reaction to Wilson’s death, the Irish civil war was likely to happen. No government can tolerate an armed opposition
Richard Nixon’s California embarrassment
PAT MURPHY: How did a man with one of the highest profiles in American politics – someone who’d just come within a hairsbreadth of winning the presidency in 1960 – flop so badly in 1962?
Fenians used Canada as an Irish revolutionary pawn
PAT MURPHY: There were five armed Fenian incursions into Canada between 1866 and 1871. But they failed and the whole thing eventually petered out
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