John Mellor – lisa·èÂíÐã Publishing and Vagrant Press lisa·èÂíÐã Publishing is the largest English-language publisher east of Toronto Thu, 27 Jun 2024 10:27:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 153484567 Dieppe /store/dieppe.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dieppe Tue, 04 Jun 2024 11:08:48 +0000 /store/dieppe.html/dieppe Gripping in its intensity, this 75th Anniversary edition of the 1942 Canadian raid on a well-fortified German-held French town with fairness, eloquence, and compassionate detail. Mellor fought at Dieppe, and puts the reader in landing craft and on the beaches with individual Canadians who formed the bulk of the attackers. He follows survivors into P.O.W. camps, where courageous leadership and successful tunnel escapes sustained men for three long years. Terrific reading!

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]]> 55179 Company Store /store/company-store.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=company-store Tue, 04 Jun 2024 11:08:01 +0000 /store/company-store.html/company-store With all the passion and forward thrust of a terrific novel, The Company Store is John Mellor's winning story of Labour's Wars in Cape Breton Island. A much sought after book, it has been too long out of print, and it remains a good place for the general reader to start in digging into this essential story in the making of the character of industrial Cape Breton. The company store itself stands as a powerful symbol for the entire system against which the miners fought-a system wherein the company owned the mines, the homes, the stores and often even the ministers and priests-all with the goal of profits for shareholders and of keeping the workers indebted and in line. And when all these failed, the governments sent in the troops against the workers!

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