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  • Great Military Leaders

    Charismatic Canadian Commanders

    by Norman Leach ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    "I never saw his equal for true grit... He lay all day with his body torn and bleeding, and it was only at night when the stretcher bearers could approach the trench to get out the wounded that he was carried away, and then he went last." The history of Canada is filled with charismatic and talented military leaders. Each of the men featured in this collection was wildly successful in business and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Sam Steele

    An Officer and a Gentleman

    by Norman S. Leach ...
    A GLOBE AND MAIL BESTSELLERHad there been no Sam Steele, it has been observed, Hollywood would have had to invent him. Born into the comparative stability of the Victorian era's Pax Britannica, Steele lived to witness the postwar turmoil of the Lost Generation. From humble beginnings in what is now Bracebridge, Ontario, to his knighthood in England two years before his death in 1919, Steele's life ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cavalry of the Air

    An Illustrated Introduction to the Aircraft and Aces of the First World War

    by Norman S. Leach ...
    Many of the airmen of the First Word War who challenged both the enemy and death did not survive. These are their stories.In the clinging mud and trench warfare of WWI, it was soon clear that the cavalry — the elite of the elite — would be of little use.The dashing men and officers of the cavalry searched for a way to be front and center in the conflict, and found it in the new air forces being ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Richthofen Jagdstaffel Ahead

    RFC Fighter Pilots Out-Performed and Out-Gunned over the Western Front, 1917. With Colour Artwork by John Batchelor.

    by Peter McManus Peter ...
    In early 1917 the war in the air intensified on the Western Front in France. Richthofen's deadly Jagdstaffel 11 was flying vastly superior Albatros and Halberstadt planes, with synchronized machine guns. Into the fray came 40 Squadron RFC with its problematic FE8s.No contest you would think, but the bravery and courage of men like Lionel Blaxland, Mick Mannock and their fellow pilots ensured the ... Read more

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  • Pioneers of Aerial Combat

    Air Battles of the First World War

    by Michael Foley ...
    When the Wright Brothers made their first flight in the early years of the twentieth century it sparked the imagination of those who wanted to fly, both in their country and around the world. In Britain, however, the spark wasn't strong enough to light a fire and it was in other parts of Europe, notably France, where flight began to develop seriously.Early pioneers of flight faced a high level of ... Read more

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  • Oakville's Flower

    The History of the HMCS Oakville

    by Sean E. Livingston ...
    The story of HMCS Oakville, a corvette that fought U-boats in WWII and remains a hero to its hometown in Oakville, Ontario.This is an in-depth look at the history and legacy of HMCS Oakville, a Canadian World War II corvette that fought in the Battle of the Atlantic, and was one of the few corvettes to sink a U-boat. From its creation through its christening off the shores of its namesake town, ... Read more

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  • Sniping in the Great War

    by Martin Pegler ...
    A military history analyzing the evolution of sniper warfare during WWI by the firearms expert and author of Eastern Front Sniper.From the sharpshooters of the American Civil War to Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, military snipers are legendary for their marksmanship and effectiveness in battle. The specialized role of the sniper developed among the ranks of the British Army over the course of World War I. ... Read more

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  • Clearing the Plains

    Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life

    by James Daschuk, Ph.D ...
    In arresting, but harrowing, prose, James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and, most disturbingly, Canadian politics--the politics of ethnocide--played in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of aboriginal people in the realization of Sir John A. Macdonald’s "National Dream."It was a dream that came at great expense: the present disparity in health and economic well ... Read more

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  • Battle on the Seven Seas

    German Cruiser Battles, 1914–1918

    by Gary Staff ...
    "This concise and well-written book will serve as a valuable library addition for anyone interested in the naval activities of the Great War." —Sea ClassicsThe cruisers of the Imperial German Navy (Kaiserlische Marine) were active throughout the First World War and saw action all around the globe, tying up valuable Allied naval resources out of all proportion to their number. Drawing on firsthand ... Read more

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  • HMS Royal Sovereign and Her Sister Ships

    by Peter C. Smith ...
    Series series Battleships at War
    This is the wartime history of the battleship HMS Royal Sovereign, along with the story of her four sister ships HMS Revenge, HMS Resolution, HMS Royal Oak and HMS Ramillies. These ships were built and launched during World War I and although old and slow, and bitterly criticised by Churchill and others as being "Coffin Ships", the Royal Sovereign class battleships in fact played a valiant and ... Read more

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  • Taking the Sea: Perilous Waters, Sunken Ships, and the True Story of the Legendary Wrecker Captains

    by Dennis Powers ...
    "Kirkus Reviews" summarized: "Maritime historian Powers ("Treasure Ship" and others) offers a series of vignettes from the golden age of American marine salvage. It extended from the end of the Civil War to the decade following World War I. Sail was merging with steam, wooden hulls with iron ones, but as the nation expanded westward in the wake of the Forty-Niners, the burgeoning demand for ... Read more

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  • St. John's and the Battle of the Atlantic

    by Bill Rompkey ...
    During World War II St. John’s, Newfoundland played a critical role in the fight against Nazi Germany. Seamen from all over the world sailed to and from the old seaport, chosen for duty because it was closest to Europe and because its people knew both the peril and glory of the North Atlantic. In his introduction to this absorbing collection of stories, Bill Rompkey examines the city’s service to ... Read more

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