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  • Military Education and the British Empire, 1815–1949

    by Douglas E. Delaney, Robert C. Engen, Meghan Fitzpatrick ...
    Common military education was the lifeblood of the armies, navies, and air forces of the British Empire. It permeated every aspect of the profession of arms and was an essential ingredient for success in both war and peace. Military Education and Empire is the first major scholarly work to address the role of military education in maintaining the empire throughout the nineteenth and twentieth ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Canadians Under Fire

    by Robert Engen ...
    Infantrymen have been the sledgehammer of land warfare throughout the twentieth century but precisely how they fought at the tactical level has been difficult to determine. American historian S.L.A. Marshall for instance famously claimed that most Allied soldiers would not fight at all even when their lives were at stake. ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Strangers in Arms

    Combat Motivation in the Canadian Army, 1943-1945

    by Robert Engen ...
    Why do soldiers fight? What keeps them going? What compels them to face death when their long-time comrades have fallen around them? Strangers in Arms addresses these questions in a groundbreaking study of the behaviour, morale, and motivations of Canadian infantrymen on the front lines of the Second World War.Canada’s army has long faced intense criticism for its combat performance during the war ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Strangers in Arms

    Combat Motivation in the Canadian Army, 1943-1945

    by Robert Engen ...
    Why do soldiers fight? What keeps them going? What compels them to face death when their long-time comrades have fallen around them? Strangers in Arms addresses these questions in a groundbreaking study of the behaviour, morale, and motivations of Canadian infantrymen on the front lines of the Second World War.Canada’s army has long faced intense criticism for its combat performance during the war ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Canadians Under Fire: Infantry Effectiveness in the Second World War

    Infantry Effectiveness in the Second World War

    by Robert Engen ...
    In Canadians Under Fire Robert Engen explores the dynamics of what combat looked like to Canada's infantrymen during the Second World War. Analyzing unexamined battle experience questionnaires from over 150 Canadian infantry officers, Engen argues for a reassessment of the tactical behaviour of Canadian soldiers in the Second World War. The evidence also shows that Marshall's theory of non ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Why We Fight

    New Approaches to the Human Dimension of Warfare

    Edited by H. Christian Breede, Allan English, Robert Engen ...
    Series Book 12 - Human Dimensions in Foreign Policy, Military Studies, and Security Studies
    For decades, the Canadian Armed Forces has used the work of foreign scholars and writers in its professional military education to try to understand the human dimension of warfare: why and how people are motivated to fight, and how they behave once they do fight. Yet the specific Canadian context, experience, and perspective are often lost in favour of appeals to universal truths.The first major ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

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    The T.R. Connection

    by Robert B. Olafson ...
    Narrated by Gene Engene ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Val Steffanson

    Unabridged

    6 hours 6 min

    Val, under the name of Will Stevens, is hiding out in the Badlands from three revenge seeking brothers of Blacky Jean La Pierre. Val killed Jean in self defense in a gunfight. The La Pierres are an outlaw Mtis clan and want blood for blood. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    The Big Island Posse

    by Robert B. Olafson ...
    Narrated by Gene Engene ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - Val Steffanson

    Unabridged

    4 hours 50 min

    In the late 1880s on the Island of Hawaii near the Parker Ranchm two young cowpunchers from the Badlands of the Dakotas, along with the beautiful women in their lives, are plunged into this ranching world. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    by Laura Hillenbrand ...
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  • Counterinsurgency

    by David Kilcullen ...
    David Kilcullen is one of the world's most influential experts on counterinsurgency and modern warfare, a ground-breaking theorist whose ideas "are revolutionizing military thinking throughout the west" (Washington Post). Indeed, his vision of modern warfare powerfully influenced the United States' decision to rethink its military strategy in Iraq and implement "the Surge," now recognized as a ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Understanding Modern Warfare

    by David Jordan, James D. Kiras, David J. Lonsdale, Ian Speller, Christopher Tuck, C. Dale Walton ...
    Understanding Modern Warfare has established itself as the leading introduction to the issues, ideas, concepts and context necessary to understand the theory and conduct of warfare in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It is an invaluable text for military professionals and students of military history. Key features include: incisive coverage of the debates surrounding contemporary and ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Direction of War

    Contemporary Strategy in Historical Perspective

    by Hew Strachan ...
    The wars since 9/11, both in Iraq and Afghanistan, have generated frustration and an increasing sense of failure in the West. Much of the blame has been attributed to poor strategy. In both the United States and the United Kingdom, public enquiries and defence think tanks have detected a lack of consistent direction, of effective communication, and of governmental coordination. In this important ... Read more

    $28.69 USD