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192p white paperback, some notes in pencil to margins and inside back cover, otherwise clean and freshCategories: History MilitaryWorld War I

This edited collection offers a broad reinterpretation of the origins of Canada. Drawing on cutting-edge research in a number of fields, Violence, Order, an...

The Catholic Origins of Quebec's Quiet Revolution challenges a versionof history central to modern Quebec's understanding of itself: that theQuiet Revolutio...

Marlene Epp, who has written extensively on Mennonite history, presents here the story of thousands of Soviet Mennonite women who, having lost their husban...

Published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War, Canada's Great War Album is an unprecedented and remarkable collection...

Chris Gainor. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 252-254).Categories: History Americas CanadaGeneral MilitaryAviation Book details Author: G...

When The Canadian Government Committed Forces To Join The American-led Military Mission In Afghanistan Following The Terrorist Attacks Of September 11, 2001...

During World War II, Britain's Royal Navy has to expand more than sevenfold, in the faces of the threat of invasion, enemy bombing and the need to carry out...

The Story Of The Royal Military College Drop-out Who Went On To Become Canada's Greatest War-time Hero.Categories: Biographies & Memoirs Leaders & N...

He was the only soldier the Canadians executed in the whole of the Second World War. His own countrymen carried out the orders, forbidden to go home before ...

The ‘Laforays’ were the largest, most powerfully armed and successful ships of this type to see frontline action with the Royal Navy in WWII. They were ...

Infantrymen Have Been The Sledgehammer Of Land Warfare Throughout The Twentieth Century, But Precisely How They Fought At The Tactical Level Has Been Diffic...

By every principle of war, every shred of military logic, logistics support to Canada’s Task Force Orion in Afghanistan should have collapsed in July 200...

The Cold War Was Initiated In Canada In 1945 By The Dramatic Defection Of Igor Gouzenko, A Soviet Cipher Clerk. This Event Marked The Start Of Over Four Dec...

In Spring 1945 the outcome of the war was ritually certain but the mighty River Rhine still stood in the way of the Allies. Eisenhower’s strategy was to g...

John Mcmahon.Categories: Biographies & MemoirsMemoirs

In 1795 - the year Napoleon Bonaparte was appointed commander-in-chief in Italy - the seventeen-year-old Jean-Nicolas-Auguste Noel entered the Artillery Sch...

This is the true story of King George V's own Sandringham Company which disappeared during World War I. Formed from the workers on his estate in Norfolk, th...

a Transcendent History/memoir Of One Family’s Always Passionate, Sometimes Tragic Connection To Russia. on A Midsummer Day In 1937, A Black Car Pulled Up ...

This volume in the Problems in European Civilization series is a collection of scholarly essays and primary sources focusing on the legacy of World War I. F...

a Riveting Account Of The Fall Of Greece, The Battle Of Crete, And The Cretanresistance, From The Beginning Of World War Ii To Its End. library Journal few...

Ralph Baker. Originally Published: London: Chatto & Windus, 1957. Includes Index.Categories: History MilitaryWorld War II

Journalist and broadcaster Robert Kee served as an RAF bomber pilot in World War II. His plane was shot down over Nazi-occupied Holland, and he subsequently...

This Work Analyzes Events Surrounding The Yokohama Incident (1942-1945), Which Led To The Arrest Of Dozens Of Journalists And Researchers In Japan During Th...

Few wars have had such a deep impact on the American people than the Vietnam War.Gerard de Groot's clear-eyed treatment covers the military events, the poli...

Dan Mccaffery. Bibliography: P. [221]-223.Categories: History Americas Canada20th Century

In the summer of 1940 Britain stood alone as Nazi Germany was swiftly tightening its grip on Europe. Hitler's forces appeared to be invincible, having swept...

Evolving from strong regional identities and steeped in tradition, the regimental system has been a fundamental element of the British Army for more than a ...

F. Wilkinson. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 29-32) And Index.Categories: Engineering & Transportation EngineeringMilitary Technology

The Book Pieces Together How Coco Chanel Became A German Intelligence Operative; How And Why She Was Enlisted In A Number Of Spy Missions; How She Escaped A...

Engines of War tells the dramatic story of how the railways revolutionized the nature of warfare, ushering in an age of industrialized conflict in which war...