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  • The Politics of Procurement

    Military Acquisition in Canada and the Sea King Helicopter

    by Aaron Plamondon ...
    In 1993, Canada’s Liberal Party cancelled an order to replace the Sea King maritime helicopter. The Liberals claimed the Tory plan was too expensive, but the cancellation itself actually cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. The incident drew public attention to the waste in Canada’s defence spending and to the under-equipped state of its military.Aaron Plamondon ties the bungled ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

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  • Amazing Airmen

    Canadian Flyers in the Second World War

    by Ian Darling ...
    Canadian and British airmen engaged in fierce and deadly battles in the skies over Europe during the Second World War. Those who survived often had to overcome incredible obstacles to do so -- dodging bullets and German troops, escaping from burning planes and enduring forced marches if they became prisoners.In one story, a tail gunner from Montreal survived despite being unconscious when blown ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Raymond Collishaw and the Black Flight

    by Roger Gunn ...
    Ever wondered what it would be like to fly a biplane or triplane in the First World War? Raymond Collishaw and the Black Flight takes you to the Western Front during the Great War. Experience the risks of combat and the many close calls Collishaw had as a pilot, flight commander, and squadron leader. Understand the courage Collishaw and his fellow flyers faced every day they took to the air in ... Read more

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  • Deadlock in Korea

    Canadians at War, 1950-1953

    by Ted Barris ...
    Between 1950 and 1953, nearly 30,000 Canadian volunteers joined the effort to contain communist incursions into South Korea and support the fledgling United Nations. All the services were there and all served with distinction. The Royal Canadian Navy led a daring rescue of troops from the port of Chinnampo in 1950; members of the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry won the highest US ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Through a Canadian Periscope

    The Story of the Canadian Submarine Service

    by Julie H. Ferguson ...
    A comprehensive history of Canada’s submarine service and the people who have served in it.Through a Canadian Periscope’s second edition celebrates the story of the Canadian submarine service on the occasion of its centenary in 2014.Created in 1914, at the beginning of World War I, Canada’s submarine force has overcome repeated attempts to sink it since then. Surprise, controversy, political ... Read more

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  • Scarce Heard Amid the Guns

    An Inside Look at Canadian Peacekeeping

    by Lieutenant-Colonel John Conrad ...
    In the Service of Peace simple words that adorn the obverse of every United Nations medal, yet behind this eloquence lurks violence and an unheralded heroism invisible to an often misunderstood quarter of Canadas military history. The Canadian contribution to peacekeeping is enormous but ensnared in a lethal mythology that has seen it abandoned to popular folklore. From the early and intrinsic ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • NORAD and the Soviet Nuclear Threat

    Canada’s Secret Electronic Air War

    by Gordon A.A. Wilson ...
    NORAD and the Soviet Nuclear Threat is the history of the air defence of Canada during the Cold War era. The reader is taken into the Top Secret world of NORAD, the joint Canadian-American North American Air Defence network. Ride along with the aircrew in their cockpit as they fight an electronic joust in the skies. Go deep underground to the Command Centre as the Air Weapons controllers plot the ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Victory at Vimy

    Canada Comes of Age, April 9-12, 1917

    by Ted Barris ...
    National BestsellerAt the height of the First World War, on Easter Monday April 9, 1917, in early morning sleet, sixteen battalions of the Canadian Corps rose along a six-kilometre line of trenches in northern France against the occupying Germans. All four Canadian divisions advanced in a line behind a well-rehearsed creeping barrage of artillery fire. By nightfall, the Germans had suffered a ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Disaster at Dieppe

    The biggest catastrophe in Canadian military history

    by Jim Lotz ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    In the early morning of August 19, 1942, over five thousand Canadian troops landed on the beach at Dieppe to reclaim the shore from German troops occupying France. It was a mission doomed from the start. Mere hours later, over two-thirds of the men were dead, wounded, or taken prisoner by German forces. It was the worst disaster in Canadian military history, and historians have found no convincing ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Sam Steele and the Northwest Rebellion

    The Trail of 1885

    by Wayne F. Brown ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    In the spring of 1885, it appeared that war was about to set the Canadian West aflame. Louis Riel had established a Metis provisional government at Batoche, and the Cree, led by war chief Wandering Spirit, had killed settlers, taken hostages and forced the capitulation of Fort Pitt. Among the forces marshalled to quell the unrest was an elite scouting unit of the Alberta Field Force, led by the ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Forced to Change

    Crisis and Reform in the Canadian Armed Forces

    by Colonel Bernd Horn, Dr. Bill Bentley ...
    Undeniably, the 1990s were a period of crisis for the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF). Drastic budget reductions and a series of endless scandals all collided to form the perfect storm. The outcome of this was nothing short of the implosion of the Canadian Armed Forces Officer Corps.Stripped by the government of the right to regulate itself, the Officer Corps, which represented the nation’s stewards ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Highway of Heroes

    True Patriot Love

    by Pete Fisher ...
    The first four Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan were repatriated at Canadas largest military base in 2002. The fallen soldiers were driven down the 172-kilometre stretch of highway between Trenton and Toronto, and pedestrians lined the overpasses, hoping to make a connection with the grieving families. The support these people show isnt political; its not a movement for or against Canadian ... Read more

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