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  • The History of Canada Series: Death or Victory

    The Battle For Quebec And The Birth Of An Empire

    by Dan Snow ...
    Series series History of Canada
    Perched atop a tall promontory and surrounded on three sides by the treacherous St. Lawrence River, Quebec City forms an almost impregnable natural fortress. But in 1759, with the Seven Years War raging around the globe, the capital city of New France came under attack. With the irascible British general James Wolfe in command, a force of more than 100 ships carrying nearly 9,000 men navigated the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Battle Castles

    500 Years of Knights and Siege Warfare

    by Dan Snow ...
    In this fully illustrated ebook, TV’s Dan Snow brings to life a cavalcade of medieval fortifications and allows the reader to experience the clashes up close. (Images best viewed on a tablet.)Castles and their ruins still dominate the landscape and are a constant reminder to us of a time when the threat of violence was very real.Dan Snow explores the world’s greatest castles including Dover Castle ... Read more

    $4.49 USD

  • 20th Century Battlefields

    by Dan Snow, Peter Snow ...
    In this riveting book, political journalist Peter Snow and military historian Dan Snow bring to life the most intense and bitterly fought battles of the 20th century - from the apocalyptic terrain of the Western Front to the desert landscape of Iraq. Punctuated by powerful eyewitness testimony, their compelling and often shocking narrative highlights the strategy of military commanders as well as ... Read more

    $17.89 USD

  • Last Stand at Zandvoorde, 1914

    Lord Hugh Grosvenor's Noble Sacrifice

    by Mike McBride, Dan Snow ...
    Being the son of the Duke of Westminster, whose family traces its lineage back to 1066, Lord Hugh Grosvenor was destined to become a cavalry officer in the prestigious 1st Regiment of Life Guards. Using unpublished letters home and contemporary accounts Noble Sacrifice describes Lord Hughs embarkation for France and the early mounted encounters which halted the enemy onslaught against the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Confusion of Command

    The Memoirs of Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas D’Oyly ‘Snowball’ Snow 1914­1918

    by Mark Pottle, Dan Snow ...
    ‘The enemy has got to be fought everywhere and hard...Everything is going very well indeed and no one minds the losses as long as we are moving.’The never-before-published papers of General Sir Thomas D’Oyly Snow provide a remarkable insight into the mindset of the Great War commanders. Despite being severely injured during the first Battle of the Marne – when his horse fell and rolled over him, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Kings & Queens

    The Real Lives of the English Monarchs

    by Ann MacMillan, Peter Snow ...
    Historians and broadcasters Peter Snow and Ann MacMillan tell the real stories of the most powerful men and women in British history.Updated for the 2023 coronation, Kings & Queens explores the lives, loves, triumphs and disasters of a monarchy that is the envy of the world. Snow and MacMillan offer a unique insight into those born to rule, whether villains or heroes – from cruel King John and ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Perdiccas Years, 323–320 BC

    Alexanders Successors at War

    by Tristan Hughes ...
    This ancient military history examines how the Macedonian empire descended into a maelstrom of violent rivalry after the death of Alexander.When Alexander the Great died in Babylon in 323 BC, he left behind one of the largest empires the world had seen, stretching from Greece to the Punjab. Surrounding the king's deathbed were his highest subordinates: some of the greatest military minds of ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • For Honour's Sake

    The War of 1812 and the Brokering of an Uneasy Peace

    by Mark Zuehlke ...
    In the tradition of Margaret MacMillan’s Paris 1919 comes a new consideration of Canada’s most famous war and the Treaty of Ghent that unsatisfactorily concluded it, from one of this country’s premier military historians.In the Canadian imagination, the War of 1812 looms large. It was a war in which British and Indian troops prevailed in almost all of the battles, in which the Americans were ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The History of Canada Series: Three Weeks in Quebec City

    The Meeting That Made Canada

    by Christopher Moore ...
    Series series History of Canada
    In 1864, thirty-three delegates from five provincial legislatures came to Quebec City to pursue the idea of uniting all the provinces of British North America. The American Civil War, not yet over, encouraged the small and barely defended provinces to consider uniting for mutual protection. But there were other factors: the rapid expansion of railways and steamships spurred visions of a continent ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Glorious Cause:The American Revolution, 1763-1789

    The American Revolution, 1763-1789

    by Robert Middlekauff ...
    Series series Oxford History of the United States
    The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States, this critically acclaimed volume--a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize--offers an unsurpassed history of the Revolutionary War and the birth of the American republic. Beginning with the French and Indian War and continuing to the election of George Washington as first president, Robert Middlekauff offers a panoramic ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Every Man Will Do His Duty

    An Anthology of Firsthand Accounts from the Age of Nelson 1793–1815

    by Dean King, John B. Hattendorf ...
    Napoleonic-era accounts of life aboard Royal Navy warships: "Readers of Patrick O'Brian and C. S. Forester will enjoy this collection" ( Library Journal ).At the dawn of the nineteenth century, the British Navy was the mightiest instrument of war the world had ever known. The Royal Navy patrolled the seas from India to the Caribbean, connecting an empire with footholds in every corner of the earth ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Birth of the West

    Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century

    by Paul Collins ...
    The tenth century dawned in violence and disorder. Charlemagne's empire was in ruins, most of Spain had been claimed by Moorish invaders, and even the papacy in Rome was embroiled in petty, provincial conflicts. To many historians, it was a prime example of the ignorance and uncertainty of the Dark Ages. Yet according to historian Paul Collins, the story of the tenth century is the story of our ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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