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  • Punching Above Our Weight

    The Canadian Military at War Since 1867

    by David A. Borys ...
    **THE HILL TIMES TOP 100 BOOKS OF 2024Punching Above Our Weight takes readers on a riveting exploration spanning one hundred and fifty years of Canadian forces.**This photograph-rich history of 150 years of the Canadian military traces the evolution of the country’s armed forces from a small, underfunded, poorly trained militia to the modern, effective military it is today. From the Red River ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Civilians at the Sharp End

    First Canadian Army Civil Affairs in Northwest Europe

    by David A. Borys ...
    Mitigating the destruction and chaos wrought upon the civilian populations of northwest Europe during the latter years of the Second World War became the focus of Civil Affairs, a little-known branch of the First Canadian Army. Comprising a motley collection of civilians-turned-soldiers – too old for combat yet too valuable to remain off the front lines – the members of Civil Affairs served as ... Read more

    $33.09 USD

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  • Canada in the Great Power Game 1914-2014

    by Gwynne Dyer ...
    Canada in the Great Power Game 1914-2014 is a serious contemplation of what it means to engage in major world conflicts, and the price we pay when we do.The First World War was Canada's baptism of fire, or at least the only one that people now remember. (Montrealers in 1776 or Torontonians in 1814 would have taken a different view.) From 1914 to 1918, after a century of peace, Canadians were ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Fifth Army in Italy, 1943–1945

    A Coalition at War

    by Ian Blackwell ...
    A history of the Allied coalition in Italy during World War II.The US Fifth Army first saw action during the Salerno Landings in September 1943. While commanded by US Lieutenant General Mark Clark, from the outset one of its two Corps was the X (British) Corps; the other V1 (US) Corps.The multi-national composition of Fifth Army is demonstrated by the French Expeditionary Corps, the Brazilian ... Read more

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  • The Great War and the Making of the Modern World

    by Jeremy Black ...
    This new work demonstrates how the outcome of the First World War has formed the modern world we live in today. The First World War was the Great War for its leading participants. In revisiting the events of 1914-1918 a century on, Jeremy Black considers how we now look at the impact of the conflict across the globe and how it came to be World War I in our consciousness. For millions, both ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Fight to the Finish

    Canadians in the Second World War, 1944-1945

    by Tim Cook ...
    Series Book 4 - Canadians Fighting
    **Winner of the 2016 Ottawa Book AwardThe magisterial second volume of Tim Cook's definitive account of Canadians fighting in the Second World War.**Historian Tim Cook displays his trademark storytelling ability in the second volume of his masterful account of Canadians in World War II. Cook combines an extraordinary grasp of military strategy with a deep empathy for the soldiers on the ground, at ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Triumph and Tragedy

    by Winston S. Churchill ...
    Series Book 6 - Winston S. Churchill The Second World Wa
    Winston Churchill recounts the end of WWII and its aftermath, in the conclusion of his majestic six-volume history.In Triumph and Tragedy, British prime minister Winston Churchill provides in dramatic detail the endgame of the war and the uneasy meetings between himself, Stalin, and Truman to discuss plans for rebuilding Europe in the aftermath of devastation.Beginning with the invasion of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Necessary War, Volume 1

    by Tim Cook ...
    Series Book 3 - Canadians Fighting
    Co-winner of the 2014-2015 Charles P. Stacey AwardTim Cook, Canada’s leading war historian, ventures deep into World War Two in this epic two-volume story of heroism and horror, of loss and longing, sacrifice and endurance.Written in Cook’s compelling narrative style, this book shows in impressive detail how soldiers, airmen, and sailors fought—the evolving tactics, weapons of war, logistics, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Triumph at Imphal-Kohima

    How the Indian Army Finally Stopped the Japanese Juggernaut

    by Raymond A. Callahan ...
    Series series Modern War Studies
    Finalist, Templer MedalIn the spring of 1944, on the eastern front of India near the Burmese border, the seemingly unstoppable Imperial Japanese Army suffered the worst defeat in its history at the hands of Lieutenant General William Slim’s British XIV Army, most of whose units were drawn from the little-esteemed Indian Army. Triumph at Imphal-Kohima tells the largely unknown story of how an army ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • A Short History of World War I

    by James L. Stokesbury ...
    A concise history covering the causes and the battles of the world's first global conflict, "the war to end all wars."World War I was a bloodletting so vast and unprecedented that for a generation it was known simply as the Great War. Casualty lists reached unimagined proportions as the same ground—places like Ypres and the Somme—was fought over again and again. Other major bloody battles remain ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Military History of Canada

    by Desmond Morton ...
    Updated to 2007, including Canada’s war on terrorism.Is Canada really “a peaceable kingdom” with “an unmilitary people”? Nonsense, says Desmond Morton. This is a country that has been shaped, divided, and transformed by war — there is no greater influence in Canadian history, recent or remote.From the shrewd tactics of Canada’s First Nations to our troubled involvement in Somalia, from the Plains ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The First World War:A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Michael Howard ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    By the time the First World War ended in 1918, eight million people had died in what had been perhaps the most apocalyptic episode the world had known. This Very Short Introduction provides a concise and insightful history of the 'Great War', focusing on why it happened, how it was fought, and why it had the consequences it did.It examines the state of Europe in 1914 and the outbreak of war; the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD