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More than 9 million Germans died as a result of deliberate Allied starvation and expulsion policies after World War II—one quarter of the country was annexed, and about 15 million people expelled in the largest act of ethnic cleansing the world has ever known. Over 2 million of these alone, including countless children, died on the road or in concentration camps in Poland and elsewhere. That these deaths occurred at all is still being denied by Western governments.At the same time, Herbert Hoover and Canadian Prime Minister MacKenzie King created the largest charity in history, a food-aid program that saved an estimated 800 million lives during three years of global struggle against post–World War II famine—a program they had to struggle for years to make accessible to the German people, who had been excluded from it as a matter of official Allied policy.Never before had such revenge been known. Never before had such compassion been shown. The first English-speaking writer to gain access to the newly opened KGB archives in Moscow and to recently declassified information from the renowned Hoover Institution in California, James Bacque tells the extraordinary story of what happened to these people and why.Revised and updated for this new edition, bestseller Crimes and Mercies was first published by Little, Brown in the U.K. in 1997.
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By analyzing publicity materials, photos, programs, reviews, and box office and theater records, D.A. Hadfield traces the process of creating a theatrical “success” and investigates how the politics involved influences what we perceive as “good” play-writing.
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Arguably the first North American play, this edition includes the original French script of Marc Lescarbot’s Theatre of Neptune in New France, two twentieth-century English translations, Ben Jonson’s Masque of Blackness, and an extensive historical and critical introduction by Jerry Wasserman.
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In Act 1, Claude, 55, visits his father Alex, 77, in an Alzheimer’s ward, intimately tending to his silent, vacant father’s bodily needs while hopelessly trying to reach him with monologues and settle misunderstandings. In Act 2, in an eerie reversal of roles, Alex visits Claude in the same ward, similarly finding disconsolate irony where he had looked for forgiveness.
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Living by Stories includes a number of classic stories set in the “mythological age” about the trickster/transformer, Coyote, and his efforts to rid the world of bad people – spatla or “monsters,” but this volume also presents historical narratives set in the more recent past, which involve the arrival of new quasi-monsters – “SHAmas” (Whites).
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Surrealist dramatization of a notorious case involving mysterious deaths on Vancouver’s Skid Row. Cast of 11 women and 2 men.
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In 1914, Simon Dulac enrolls in a Canadian contingent of military police, a perfect cover for his real ambition—to comb the battlefields of Europe unhindered, searching for legendary Templar treasure. There, Dulac encounters Nell, affecting and skilled, who has come to the trenches to practice suturing wounds. Together, haunted by the jealousy of their commanding officer, they pursue their desires.
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Many of the stories in Okanagan storyteller Harry Robinson’s second collection feature the shoo-MISH, or “nature helpers” that assist humans and sometimes provide them with special powers. Some tell of individuals who use these powers to heal themselves; others tell of Indian doctors with the power to heal others. Still others tell of power encounters of various kinds.
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This brilliant collection of satirical short stories explores the evolving corporate construction of reality in the media and information age.
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In 1990, during Operation Desert Storm, a troubled Canadian soldier and a teenage Palestinian black-marketeer meet in the Qatari desert and become unlikely and secret friends. But the tenuous friendship is severed after a horrifying act inside the Canadian base.This play rips the mask off recent western “peacekeeping” operations and challenges Canada’s long-treasured myths. Cast of 3 to 5 men.