New Releases: February

As we kick off the second month of 2024, we are happy to announce five new titles for February. This month, our titles cover a broad range of historical and literary topics.

Friendship and the Novel

Edited by Allan Hepburn

Friendship and the Novel illustrates how friendship, in its many forms – short or lifelong, intense or circumstantial – is a central problem and an abiding mystery in fiction as in life, a subject that continues to shape the novel as a literary form and, in turn, its readers.

Hungry and Starving

Voices of the Great Soviet Famine, 1928–1934

By James R. Gibson

Hungry and Starving offers a broader understanding of the Great Soviet Famine, highlighting the experiences of life and death under Stalin’s ruthless regime.

Lost in the Crowd

Acadian Soldiers of Canada’s First World War

By Gregory M.W. Kennedy

Lost in the Crowd offers a completely new and replicable approach to the traditional regimental history, reconstituting the lives of soldiers and their families. The focus on the Acadians, a francophone minority group in the Maritime provinces, significantly shifts our understanding of French Canada and the First World War.

A Thirst for Wine and War

The Intoxication of French Soldiers on the Western Front 

By Adam Zientek

A Thirst for Wine and War shows how the French army’s intoxication of its soldiers constituted a unique exercise of biopower deployed on a mass scale.

To Make a Killing

Arthur Cutten, the Man Who Ruled the Markets

By Robert Stephens 

To Make a Killing tells the tale of Cutten’s journey to fabulous wealth, the forces that propelled him, and the fascinating characters in his life.