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Carrie Wachsmann. Roadblocks to Hell. Abbotsford: HeartBeat Productions,
2016. 264 pp. Reviewed by Robert Martens
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Chad Reimer. Before We Lost the Lake: A Natural and Human History of Sumas Valley.
Halfmoon Bay, BC: Caitlin Press, 2018. 255 pp. Reviewed by Robert Martens
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Leonard G. Friessen. Minority Report: Mennonite Identities in Imperial Russia and Soviet
Ukraine Reconsidered, 1789-1945 Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018. 338 pp.
Reviewed by Robert Martens
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Ben Goossen. Chosen Nation: Mennonites and Germany in a Global Era. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. 266 pp.
Reviewed by Robert Martens
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Janis Thiessen. NOT Talking Union: An Oral History of North American Mennonites and
Labour. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016. 232 pp.
Reviewed by Robert Martens
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Peter Penner. A Time to Be Born: Memoir of a Canadian Mennonite. Victoria: Friesen Press, 2016. 277 pp.
Reviewed by Robert Martens
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John B. Toews and Paul Toews, editors. All-Russian Mennonite Agricultural Union (1923-1927): Minutes, Reports, Correspondence. Translated by John B. Toews, Walter Regehr, Olga Shmakina. 417 pp.
Reviewed by Robert Martens
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Rudy Wiebe. Where the Truth Lies: Selected Essays. Edmonton, NeWest Press: 2016. 312 pp.
Reviewed by Robert Martens
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Helen Rose Pauls. Refugee: A memoir retold by Helen Rose Pauls. Self-published (Globe
Printers), Chilliwack, 2016. 96 pp. Reviewed by Robert Martens
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Dorothy M. Peters with Christine S. Kampen. Daughters in the House of Jacob: A Memoir
of Migration. Winnipeg, MB & Goessel, KS: Kindred Productions, 2016. 275 pp. Reviewed by Robert Martens
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Andrew Klager, editor. From Suffering to Solidarity: The Historical Seeds of Mennonite Interreligious, Interethnic, and International
Peacebuilding. Pickwick Publications, 2015. With a foreword by Marc Gopin. Reviewed by Ron Dart
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Wilfried Hein, editor and translator. A Witness in Times of War and Peace: The Story of Gerhard
Hein, a Mennonite Pastor Who Served in the Wehrmacht During World War II. Victoria: Friesen Press, 2015. 335 pp. Reviewed by Robert Martens.
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Jacob E. Peters, Adolf Ens and Eleanor Chornoboy, eds. The Outsiders' Gaze. Winnipeg: Manitoba Mennonite
Historical Society, 2015. 198 pp. Reviewed by Robert Martens.
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Samuel J. Steiner. In Search of Promised Lands: A Religious History of Mennonites in Ontario. Harrisonburg & Kitchener: Herald Press, 2015. 587 pp. + notes (877 pp.) Reviewed by Robert Martens.
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Malcolm B. Yarnell III, ed. The Anabaptists and Contemporary Baptists: Restoring New Testament Christianity. Essays in Honor of Paige Patterson. Nashville, TN: B&H Publishing Group, 2013. 306 pp. Reviewed by John Friesen, PhD.
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Elizabeth Reimer Bartel. The Yellow House: Poems of Life and Love. Self-published. 2015. 155 pp. Reviewed by Robert Martens.
Erica Jantzen. Six Sugar Beets, Five Bitter Years. Kitchener, Pandora Press: 2003. 186 pp. Reviewed by Robert Martens.
Rachel Epp Buller & Kerry Fast, editors. Mothering Mennonite. Bradford, ON: Demeter Press, 2013. 312 pp. Reviewed by Dorolen Wolfs.
Nicolai and Katharina Rempel. Letters of a Mennonite Couple: Nicolai and Katharina Rempel. Russia: War and Revolution 1914-1917. Introduced and edited by Teodor Rempel. Translated by Teodor Rempel with Agatha Klassen. Fresno, CA: Center for Mennonite Brethren Studies, 2014. 246 pp. Reviewed by Robert Martens.
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Dora Dueck. What You Get at Home. Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 2012. 178 pp. Reviewed by Robert Martens.
Peter P. Klassen. Die deutsch-völkische Zeit in der Kolonie Fernheim, Chaco, Paraguay 1933-1944. The time of the German Volk in Fernheim Colony, Chaco, Paraguay 1933-1944. A Contribution to the History of Expatriate German Mennonites during the Third Reich. Reviewed by Wilf Hein.
Robert Martens. Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak and his regime in Omsk.
David Funk. On The Banks of The Irtysh River. N.p., n.d. 232 pp.
Reviewed by Robert Martens.
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Glen E. Miller. Living Thoughtfully, Dying Well. Harrisonburg, Virginia: Herald Press, 2014. 170 pp.
Reviewed by Robert Martens
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Jacob A. Neufeld. Path of Thorns: Soviet Mennonite Life under Communist and Nazi Rule. Ed. and trans. by Harvey L. Dyck and Sarah Dyck. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014. 444 pp. Reviewed by John B. Toews
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Hans Werner. The Constructed Mennonite: History, Memory, and the Second World War. University of Manitoba Press: Winnipeg, 2013. Reviewed by Robert Martens
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Maureen S. Klassen. It Happened in Moscow. A Memoir of Discovery. (Winnipeg, MB, Goessel, KS: Kindred Productions, 2013). Paperback, 211 pages, including numerous black and white photographs. Reviewed by Harry Loewen
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Arlette Kouwenhoven. The Fehrs: Four centuries of Mennonite migration. Translated
from the Dutch by Leslie Fast. Leiden, Netherlands: Winco Press, 2013. 264 pp. Reviewed by Robert Martens
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Toews, John B. and Toews, Paul, editors. Union of Citizens of Dutch Lineage in Ukraine (1922- 1927). Mennonite and Soviet Documents. Reviewed by Henry Neufeld
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Royden Loewen and Steve Nolt. Seeking Places of Peace. Global Mennonite History Series. Reviewed by Robert Martens
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Conrad L. Kanagy, Tilahun Beyene, and Richard Showalter. Winds of the Spirit: A Profile of Anabaptist Churches in the Global South. Reviewed by Robert Martens
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Edited by John B. Toews and Paul Toews and translated by John B. Toews, Walter Regehr and Olga Shmakina. Union of Citizens of Dutch Lineage in Ukraine (1922-1927), Mennonite and Soviet Documents. Reviewed by Harvey Dyck.
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Mark Jantzen. Mennonite German Soldiers: Nation, Religion, and Family in the Prussian East, 1772-1880. Reviewed by Robert Martens
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Walter Klaassen and William Klassen. Marpeck: A Life of Dissent and Conformity. Reviewed by Robert Martens
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Lloyd Pietersen. Reading the Bible After Christendom. With foreword by Walter Brueggemann. Reviewed by Robert Martens
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Lisa Weaver, Julie Kauffman, and Judith Rempel Smucker. On the Zwieback Trail: A Russian
Mennonite Alphabet of Stories, Recipes and Historic Events. Reviewed by Robert Martens