A midnight's child of poor rural India, Ujjal Dosanjh emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1964 at the age of eighteen, and spent nearly four years making crayons, car parts and shunting trains while he attended night school and learned English by listening to BBC Radio. He moved to Canada in 1968, to the west coast, where he pulled lumber in a sawmill for a few years, eventually earning a B.A from Simon Fraser University in 1973 and then his ...
After a turbulent childhood in Communist Czechoslovakia, Milan Kroupa turned his back on a promising career in soccer and fled the country of his birth. He arrived in Canada as a refugee in 1968 at the age of twenty-five, with a new wife, and a new baby. He had little more in his pocket than good advice from his father, who taught him that there are as many opportunities in the world as there are stars in the sky, and that the secret is to grasp ...
How does it feel to be deemed guilty before trial? To be held in a cutthroat Panamanian prison while suffering from terminal lung cancer? How does it feel to rise to the top of the medical and public arenas in your adopted country, only to crash miserably to earth under allegations of fraud and money laundering? In short: What is it like to be Dr. Arthur Porter? There are few contemporary figures in Canada more intriguing and controversial than ...
CBS Foreign Correspondent Kimberly Dozier shares her compelling story from being injured in Iraq to her recovery…shedding light on the ordeal faced by countless combat veterans and civilians. ...
?As I look back, I am happy that I have lived for so long?. It is a happiness shared by many: family members, friends and colleagues. Cephas Msipa?s memoirs take us back to his birth in Zvishavane in 1931, and they reflect a life dedicated to the welfare of others and the development of his country. Following secondary education at Dadaya Mission, he worked as a teacher in Zvishavane and Kwekwe, where he was active in the Rhodesian African Teach ...
Farida Khalaf ist 18 Jahre alt, als der IS im August 2014 ihr Dorf im irakischen Sinjar-Gebirge uberfallt. Die Terroristen treiben die Manner und Jungen des Dorfes zusammen und toten sie. Die Madchen und Frauen nehmen sie mit. Vier Monate lebt Farida in der Holle auf Erden: Sie wird als Sklavin von Mann zu Mann verkauft, vergewaltigt, fast totgeschlagen. Doch sie uberlebt und entwickelt in der Folge den ungeheuren Mut, sich ihren Peinigern zu wi ...
It’s the story where it all started: A homestead for generations, with 1000 years of life and struggles to survive, as well as moments of happiness. It’s a resurrection of the past projected upon history. Thus, this Saga is the most comprehensive genealogical data gathering of the 1000 years of Hollenbergs on both sides of the Atlantic and an amazing discovery: How this ancestral trunk, over centuries, has given us a multitude of branches and bu ...
In diesem Buch kommen historische Personlichkeiten zu Wort, die unter verschiedensten Umstanden ihres Lebens in allen Jahrhunderten den Liedschatz Paul Gerhardts zu Heil und Trost verwendet haben. Johann Sebastian Bach, Husarengeneral Joachim von Zieten, Konigin Luise von Preu?en, Kunstmaler und Illustrator Ludwig Richter und Pfarrer Dietrich Bonhoeffer sind Menschen, die Trost und Hoffnung aus dem »Hohen Lied der Treue Gottes« schopfen konnten. ...
It is an image etched in the minds of a generation: Ronald Reagan perched atop his horse, riding through the dusty trails and canyons of his California ranch with his beloved wife, Nancy, at his side. But what most of us did not see was the man who always rode just a few steps away.John Barletta was a Vietnam veteran and Secret Service agent who spent over a decade with the Reagans, poised to give his own life at any moment to save the 40th pres ...
