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  • Hell in Flanders Fields

    Canadians at the Second Battle of Ypres

    by George H. Cassar ...
    On 22 April 1915, the men of the 1st Canadian Division faced chlorine gas, a new lethal weapon against which they had no defence. In defiance of a particularly horrible death, or, at the very least, severe lung injury, these untested Canadians fought almost continuously for four days, often hand-to-hand, as they clung stubbornly against overwhelming odds to a vital part of the Allied line after ... Read more

    $9.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Hero Walks Alone

    by George Cassar ...
    Heroes are not made; theyre born with the gift of having special powers that many of us only dream about. Wrongly judged not only by authorities but also by his own father, Fabian Barnas life dramatically changes after being wrongly convicted and jailed for a crime he didnt commit before becoming a hero in the Vietnam War. A Hero Walks Alone tells of the hardships the Barna family are forced to ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Recent Advancements in Tourism Business, Technology and Social Sciences

    10th International Conference, IACuDiT, Crete, Greece, 2023 - Vol. 2

    Edited by Vicky Katsoni, George Cassar ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    The book features the second volume of the proceedings of the 10th International Conference of the International Association of Cultural and Digital Tourism (IACuDiT), with the theme “Recent Advancements in Tourism Business, Technology, and Social Sciences,” which was held from August 29 to 31, 2023, in Crete, Greece. It showcases the latest research on Tourism Business, Technology, and Social ... Read more

    $224.09 USD

  • Recent Advancements in Tourism Business, Technology and Social Sciences

    10th International Conference, IACuDiT, Crete, Greece, 2023—Vol. 1

    Edited by Vicky Katsoni, George Cassar ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    The book features the first volume of the proceedings of the 10th International Conference of the International Association of Cultural and Digital Tourism (IACuDiT), with the theme “Recent Advancements in Tourism Business, Technology, and Social Sciences,” which was held from August 29 to 31, 2023, in Crete, Greece. It showcases the latest research on Tourism Business, Technology, and Social ... Read more

    $296.99 USD

  • Trial By Gas

    The British Army at the Second Battle of Ypres

    by GEORGE H. CASSAR ...
    World War I has long captured the macabre imagination for the seemingly willful manner in which nations sent their young men to die in droves while fighting over essentially the same patch of land for four long years. The vision of those senseless deaths becomes even harsher and more depraved when we consider how many soldiers were killed by poison gas.In May 1915 the long and bloody Second Battle ... Read more

    $29.95 USD

  • Kitchener as Proconsul of Egypt, 1911-1914

    by George.H. Cassar ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book covers the tenure of Kitchener as Proconsul in Egypt in the years preceding the First World War. Based mostly on unpublished sources – including government records and private papers – it not only fills a gap in the life and career of Kitchener, the most famous soldier in Britain since Wellington, but it also deals with an important but practically unknown period in Egyptian history. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Risk and Safety Challenges for Religious Tourism and Events

    by Professor Maximiliano Korstanje, Yasin Bilim, Aynur Gülenc Birsen, George Cassar, Ayesha Chowdhury, Alan Clarke, Carlos Fernandes, Danielle Griffin, Kevin Griffin, Dane Munro1, Cyril Peter2, Jahanzeeb Qurashi3, Yadukrishna P R4, Hugues Seraphin5, Geoffrey Skoll6, Bernadette Theodore7, Dr Razaq Raj9 ...
    Series series CABI Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Series
    Travellers today face many challenges from risk and safety issues. Focusing in particular on risk and safety issues faced by visitors to holy sites, this book looks at the unique challenges raised, where annual religious festivals are commemorated with mass gatherings lasting for days and large crowds require detailed disaster management plans. Beginning with a general section on risk management, ... Read more

    $49.89 USD

  • The Torch We Throw: The Dundurn WWI Historical Library

    Amiens/Second to None/The Making of Billy Bishop/Hell in Flanders Fields/It Made you Think of Home

    by Brereton Greenhous, James McWilliams, R. James Steel, Kevin R. Shackleton, George H. Cassar, Bruce Cane ...
    Series series The Torch We Throw: The Dundurn WWI Historical Library
    The giant conflagration of the First World War created the world we live in today, and its history is replete with stirring battles, mind-boggling strategies, and geopolitical manoeuvring. However, the real story was lived in the trenches of Europe and the lonely households of those left behind. The stories of this period are full of tragedy, anger, and loss but also inspirational courage. This ... Read more

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  • 1917: Vimy Ridge to Ypres

    Key Dates and Events from the Fourth Year of the First World War

    by Saul David Ltd, Saul David ...
    This special ebook has been created by historian Saul David from his acclaimed work 100 Days to Victory: How the Great War was Fought and Won, which was described by the Mail on Sunday as 'Inspired' and by Charles Spencer as 'A work of great originality and insight'. Through key dates from the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II, to the capture of Jerusalem, Saul David's gripping narrative is an ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Brave Battalion

    The Remarkable Saga of the 16th Battalion (Canadian Scottish) in the First World War

    by Mark Zuehlke ...
    Brave Battalion presents the story of four Canadian Highland regiments that were banded together as the 16th Battalion. Ninety years after the end of WWI, this work honours those soldiers and makes their stories a vivid reality. Focusing on the Canadian Scottish (Princess Mary’s) Battalion, Mark Zuehlke presents the harrowing experiences that bonded the men and which came to represent the uniting ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • In the Ypres Salient, The Story of a Fortnight's Canadian Fighting, June 2-16 1916 [Illustrated Edition]

    by Beckles Willson ...
    Every evening since 1928, the Last Post is sounded in the town of Ypres in West Flanders, and the local fire brigade turn toward the Menin Gate as the local traffic stops. This Mark of respect to the Allied soldiers who fell defending the Ypres salient has been a tradition in the town for almost one hundred years. Tens of thousands of British, French, Canadian, Australian, Indian, New Zealand, ... Read more

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  • And We Go On

    A Memoir of the Great War

    by Will R. Bird ...
    Series Book 229 - Carleton Library Series
    In the autumn of 1915 Will Bird was working on a farm in Saskatchewan when the ghost of his brother Stephen, killed by German mines in France, appeared before him in uniform. Rattled, Bird rushed home to Nova Scotia and enlisted in the army to take his dead brother's place. And We Go On is a remarkable and harrowing memoir of his two years in the trenches of the Western Front, from October 1916 ... Read more

    $21.89 USD