Jack Batten
Tundra’s Jack Batten is a well-known author, journalist, reviewer, and radio personality. He has written over thirty books on subjects that include biography, crime fiction, law and court cases, and sports. Jack Batten’s first career was as a lawyer. After four years, he turned to writing. He has been a staff writer at Maclean’s Magazine and the Star Weekly. Batten has written for many magazines, including Chatelaine, Rolling Stone, and Toronto Life. He has written radio plays for the CBC and a jazz column for The Globe and Mail. Nowadays, Jack Batten writes books and reviews crime novels for The Sunday...
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The War to End All Wars
Hardcover | 160 pages | Tundra Books | Juvenile Nonfiction - History - Europe; Juvenile Nonfiction - History - Military & Wars; Juvenile Nonfiction - Social Situations - New Experience
978-0-88776-879-8 (0-88776-879-2)
October 13, 2009 | $24.99
A brilliant, concise history of The War to End All Wars.
In the decade leading up to 1914, Europe had never known such prosperity. But the times were not good enough for the continent’s most powerful nations: Germany wanted a navy that matched England’s; Russia wanted an army as large and as...
Written by Jack Batten
Hardcover | 160 pages | Tundra Books | Juvenile Nonfiction - History - Europe; Juvenile Nonfiction - History - Military & Wars; Juvenile Nonfiction - Social Situations - New Experience
978-0-88776-879-8 (0-88776-879-2)
October 13, 2009 | $24.99
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A brilliant, concise history of The War to End All Wars.
In the decade leading up to 1914, Europe had never known such prosperity. But the times were not good enough for the continent’s most powerful nations: Germany wanted a navy that matched England’s; Russia wanted an army as large and as...
The Man Who Ran Faster Than Everyone
eBook | pages | Tundra Books | Juvenile Nonfiction - Sports & Recreation - Olympics; Juvenile Nonfiction - Sports & Recreation - Track & Field; Juvenile Nonfiction - Biography & Autobiography
978-1-77049-063-5 (1-77049-063-9)
June 5, 2009 | $12.95
Tom Longboat was a hero. A member of the Onondaga Nation, he was born on the Six Nations reserve in Oshwegen, near Brantford, Ontario. Despite poverty, poor training, and prejudice, Longboat went on to become one of the world’s best runners. In 1907, at the height of his fame, he won...
Written by Jack Batten
eBook | pages | Tundra Books | Juvenile Nonfiction - Sports & Recreation - Olympics; Juvenile Nonfiction - Sports & Recreation - Track & Field; Juvenile Nonfiction - Biography & Autobiography
978-1-77049-063-5 (1-77049-063-9)
June 5, 2009 | $12.95
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Tom Longboat was a hero. A member of the Onondaga Nation, he was born on the Six Nations reserve in Oshwegen, near Brantford, Ontario. Despite poverty, poor training, and prejudice, Longboat went on to become one of the world’s best runners. In 1907, at the height of his fame, he won...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Silent in an Evil Time
eBook | pages | Tundra Books | Juvenile Nonfiction - Biography & Autobiography - Historical; Juvenile Nonfiction - History - Europe; Juvenile Nonfiction - Girls & Women
978-1-77049-005-5 (1-77049-005-1)
May 8, 2009 | $16.95
Dutiful nurse, hospital matron, courageous resistance fighter, Edith Cavell was all of these. A British citizen, the forty-eight-year-old Cavell was matron of an institute for nurses in the suburbs of Brussels at the outbreak of World War I. Dedicated to the methods of Florence Nightingale, her intelligence and ferocious sense of...
Written by Jack Batten
eBook | pages | Tundra Books | Juvenile Nonfiction - Biography & Autobiography - Historical; Juvenile Nonfiction - History - Europe; Juvenile Nonfiction - Girls & Women
978-1-77049-005-5 (1-77049-005-1)
May 8, 2009 | $16.95
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Dutiful nurse, hospital matron, courageous resistance fighter, Edith Cavell was all of these. A British citizen, the forty-eight-year-old Cavell was matron of an institute for nurses in the suburbs of Brussels at the outbreak of World War I. Dedicated to the methods of Florence Nightingale, her intelligence and ferocious sense of...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Silent in an Evil Time
Trade Paperback | 144 pages | Tundra Books | Juvenile Nonfiction - Biography & Autobiography - Historical; Juvenile Nonfiction - History - Europe; Juvenile Nonfiction - Girls & Women
978-0-88776-737-1 (0-88776-737-0)
October 9, 2007 | $18.99
Dutiful nurse, hospital matron, courageous resistance fighter, Edith Cavell was all of these. A British citizen, the forty-eight-year-old Cavell was matron of an institute for nurses in the suburbs of Brussels at the outbreak of World War I. Dedicated to the methods of Florence Nightingale, her intelligence and ferocious sense of...
Written by Jack Batten
Trade Paperback | 144 pages | Tundra Books | Juvenile Nonfiction - Biography & Autobiography - Historical; Juvenile Nonfiction - History - Europe; Juvenile Nonfiction - Girls & Women
978-0-88776-737-1 (0-88776-737-0)
October 9, 2007 | $18.99
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Dutiful nurse, hospital matron, courageous resistance fighter, Edith Cavell was all of these. A British citizen, the forty-eight-year-old Cavell was matron of an institute for nurses in the suburbs of Brussels at the outbreak of World War I. Dedicated to the methods of Florence Nightingale, her intelligence and ferocious sense of...
Also available as an
eBook.
The Man Who Ran Faster Than Everyone
Trade Paperback | 112 pages | Tundra Books | Juvenile Nonfiction - Sports & Recreation - Olympics; Juvenile Nonfiction - Sports & Recreation - Track & Field; Juvenile Nonfiction - Biography & Autobiography
978-0-88776-507-0 (0-88776-507-6)
March 12, 2002 | $16.99
Tom Longboat was a hero. A member of the Onondaga Nation, he was born on the Six Nations reserve in Oshwegen, near Brantford, Ontario. Despite poverty, poor training, and prejudice, Longboat went on to become one of the world’s best runners. In 1907, at the height of his fame, he won...
Written by Jack Batten
Trade Paperback | 112 pages | Tundra Books | Juvenile Nonfiction - Sports & Recreation - Olympics; Juvenile Nonfiction - Sports & Recreation - Track & Field; Juvenile Nonfiction - Biography & Autobiography
978-0-88776-507-0 (0-88776-507-6)
March 12, 2002 | $16.99
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Tom Longboat was a hero. A member of the Onondaga Nation, he was born on the Six Nations reserve in Oshwegen, near Brantford, Ontario. Despite poverty, poor training, and prejudice, Longboat went on to become one of the world’s best runners. In 1907, at the height of his fame, he won...
Also available as an
eBook.
