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  • Orchestrating Warfighting

    A History of the British Army’s Corps and Divisions at War since 1914

    Edited by Tim Bean, Edward Flint, James E. Kitchen, Paul Latawski ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern British History
    Orchestrating Warfighting provides a detailed and wide-ranging examination of the employment of corps and divisions from the First World War through to the early twenty-first century.Division and corps formations have been at the forefront of the British Army’s prosecution of war since 1914. They constituted the major command and organisational elements that underpinned the conduct of large-scale ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The British Imperial Army in the Middle East

    Morale and Military Identity in the Sinai and Palestine Campaigns, 1916-18

    by Dr James E. Kitchen ...
    Series series War, Culture and Society
    The First World War has often been understood in terms of the combat experiences of soldiers on the Western Front; those combatants who served in the other theatres of the war have been neglected. Using personal testimonies, official documentation and detailed research from a diverse range of archives, The British Imperial Army in the Middle East explores the combat experiences of these soldiers. ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

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  • 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

  • On to Victory

    The Canadian Liberation of the Netherlands, March 23May 5, 1945

    by Mark Zuehlke ...
    The eighth Canadian Battle Series volume is the little-told story of the tense final days of World War II, remembered in the Netherlands as the sweetest of springs,” which saw the country’s liberation from German occupation.The Liberation Campaign, a series of fierce, desperate battles during the last three months of the war, was bittersweet. A nation’s freedom was won and the war concluded, but ... Read more

    $16.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • Breakout From Juno

    First Canadian Army and the Normandy Campaign, July 4-August 21, 1944

    by Mark Zuehlke ...
    The ninth book in the Canadian Battle Series, Breakout from Juno, is the first dramatic chronicling of Canada's pivotal role throughout the entire Normandy Campaign following the D-Day landings.On July 4, 1944, the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division won the village of Carpiquet but not the adjacent airfield. Instead of a speedy victory, the men faced a bloody fight. The Canadians advanced relentlessly ... Read more

    $16.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cinderella Army

    The Canadians in Northwest Europe, 1944-1945

    by Terry Copp ...
    In his controversial and award-winning 2003 book Fields of Fire, Terry Copp offered a stunning reversal of accepted military history, challenging the conventional view that the Canadian contribution to the Battle of Normandy was a failure. Cinderella Army continues the story of the operations carried out by the First Canadian Army in the last nine months of the war, and extends the argument ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • El Alamein

    The Battle that Turned the Tide of the Second World War

    by Bryn Hammond ...
    El Alamein, Britain's victory in the deserts of North Africa in 1942, was the first major reversal of fortunes for Hitler's Third Reich.Before the Battle of El Alamein in 1942, the British had never won a major battle on land against the Germans; nor indeed had anyone else. Drawing on a remarkable array of first-hand accounts, this book reveals the personal experiences of those on the frontline ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

  • The Military Life & Times of General Sir Miles Dempsey GBE KCB DSO MC

    Monty's Army Commander

    by Peter Rostron ...
    Miles Dempsey, Commander of the British Second Army in the invasion of Europe 1944-45, is almost unknown to the general public. Yet his part in Britains contribution to that campaign was second only to Montgomerys in importance. Dempsey survived two and a half years of bitter fighting as an infantry officer on the Western Front before accompanying his beloved Royal Berkshire Regiment in the little ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Second to None

    The Fighting 58th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force

    by Kevin R. Shackleton ...
    One of only fifty infantry battalions to see action with the Canadian Expeditionary Force during World War I, the 58th nevertheless had no official history. Second to None tells the story of this important, yet forgotten, battalion. The soldiers who formed the 58th exemplified the ideal citizen soldiers and later evolved into the tough, battle-savvy veterans who destroyed the cream of the German ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Vimy Ridge

    A Canadian Reassessment

    by Geoffrey Hayes, Andrew Iarocci, Mike Bechthold ...
    On the morning of April 9, 1917, troops of the Canadian Corps under General Julian Byng attacked the formidable German defences of Vimy Ridge. Since then, generations of Canadians have shared a deep emotional attachment to the battle, inspired partly by the spectacular memorial on the battlefield. Although the event is considered central in Canadian military history, most people know very little ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • 1918 Year of Victory: The end of the Great War and the shaping of history

    by Ashley Ekins ...
    World War I, The Great War involved the mobilisation of some 70 million soldiers worldwide. It produced images of such pervasive horror on the Western Front that it defined warfare in human memory long into the twentieth century. The war also left a grim legacy: 13 million people died, 9 million of them combatants. Over one-third of those who died were missing, having no known graves. The chapters ... Read more

    $8.69 USD