Beautifully illustrated histories of Maritime courthouses
This book is a well-written, beautifully illustrated addition to the history of architecture in the Maritimes, profiling public buildings that many of us pass every day without noticing as true gems.
Revisiting Beaumont Hamel a century later
“The battle commenced, the various battalions moved to the attack, and the attack crumpled.” In this one sentence, author Nigel Cave succinctly encapsulates July 1, 1916.
Regimental history rediscovered
A Blue Puttee at War: The Memoir of Captain Sidney Frost, MC
By Sidney Frost, Edward Roberts (ed)
$34.95, hardcover, 538 pp.
Flanker Press, November 2014
Soldiers’ letters run the full gamut of emotions
Letters Home: Maritimers and the Great War, 1914-1918
Edited by Ross Hebb
$17.95, paperback, 166 pp.
Nimbus Publishing, July 2014
It Began with Barbara…
Halifax author Bryan Elson explains the spark that ignited the idea for his latest book
The little known story of Canada’s first pilot: J.A.D. McCurdy
The Silver Dart: The Story of J.A.D. McCurdy, Canada’s First Pilot and the First Airplane Flight in the British Empire
H. Gordon Green
$18.95, paperback, 162 pp.
Breton Books, February 2014