Military School

In 1863 the Civil War is raging throughout the country. Eleven-year-old Henry has been on the sidelines so far - but the events of a hot July week in Pennsylvania are about to change his life forever. Does he have what it takes to survive the Battle of Gettysburg?

In 2027, the testimonial records of nearly 40,000 residential school survivors are set to be destroyed. This is the story of how Canada fought to hide these stories yet again, and the small group of people who took on the government to preserve the truth. For decades, survivors of Canada’s...

»Dieses Buch war längst überfällig.« Günter Wallraff

Ein Großteil der deutschen Nachkriegskinder ist ins Leben hineingeprügelt worden. Doch wie konnte es sein, dass Schläge mit Teppichklopfer, Kochlöffel und Rohrstock in der Schule und zu Hause völlig üblich waren? Und was wurde aus diesen Kindern, die in der Gewissheit aufwuchsen: Ich bin ein Nichts, ich gehöre bestraft? Ingrid Müller-Münch spürt diesen Fragen nach und leistet damit einen wichtigen Beitrag zur gegenwärtigen Erziehungsdebatte.

Death was supposed to be my end. Instead, it was just the beginning. I woke up in someone else’s body, inside the Shadow Academy, a school for elite warriors. Now they think I’m someone I'm not, and until I escape, I’ll have to play along. But things get complicated when strange powers...

An investigative study of the far-right’s attack on education and an on-the-ground look at the parent activist battle, on either side of the debate, to control the future of public schools For well over a century, public schools have been a non-partisan gathering place and vital center of...

At ten years old, young Douglas M. Gebbie witnessed the igniting spark of World War II firsthand. As Douglas and his family listen intently to the BBC radio broadcast, the world-altering news rings out: Hitler has invaded Poland.