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  • A Military Atlas of the First World War

    by Arthur Banks ...
    "With the ingenious use of maps, diagrams and statistics, this indispensable work explains the strategies of the combatants and the diplomatic history." — The BeaconThis is a unique study of the conflict of 1914–18 on land, sea and in the air, through maps, diagrams and illustrations. Within the scope of some 250 maps, Arthur Banks has presented both broad general surveys of political and military ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Turning Blood Red: The Fight For Life In Cooley's Anemia

    by Arthur Bank ...
    This book is the story of an inherited blood disease — Cooley's anemia or beta thalassemia. Cooley's anemia is a severe and potentially fatal anemia that affects millions of people worldwide. Written by a world-recognized expert on the disease who has contributed greatly to the scientific understanding of the pathophysiology of this human hemoglobin disorder, the book describes the emotional and ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Searching For The Best Medicine: The Life And Times Of A Doctor And Patient

    by Arthur Bank ...
    This book describes the life and times of a physician-scientist over the last half-century. Part One is about the author's struggle with colon cancer and the lessons he learnt from the experience; Part Two is about his life growing up, the pretzel bakery, his family, being educated at Bronx Science, Columbia College, Harvard Medical School, and his medical training at the Boston City Hospital and ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Haiku 101

    For Reading With Some Warm Tea This is Number One

    by Arthur R. D. Banks ...
    Series Book 1 - Haiku of life
    101 Haiku written during the winter months. Reflecting on life and the little things of everyday Like the days of life the haiku all have their own purpose. Some might invoke joy, others sadness and some are just plain weird, a bit nonsensical or simply out of context. Written to be enjoyed as life. That is at your ownpace and possibly with some tea every once in a while. This is the first in a ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Warships After London

    The End of the Treaty Era in the Five Major Fleets, 1930–1936

    by John Jordan ...
    The acclaimed naval historian presents an authoritative study of how the 1930 Treaty of London influenced warship design in the years before WW2.After the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 put a cap on the construction of capital ships and aircraft carriers, the major navies of the world began building 'treaty cruisers' and other warships that maximized power while abiding the restrictions. As the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Japan Runs Wild, 1942–1943

    by Peter Harmsen ...
    Series Book 2 - War in the Far East
    The author of Storm Clouds Over the Pacific, 1931–1941 chronicles Japan's dramatic reversal of fortune as Allied forces gained advantage during WWII.In early 1942, the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy were advancing on all fronts, humiliating Allied forces throughout the Pacific. In a matter of months, Japan had conquered an area larger than Hitler's empire at its apex. Hawaiians and Australians ... Read more

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  • The Great Illyrian Revolt

    Rome's Forgotten War in the Balkans, AD 6–9

    by Jason R. Abdale ...
    The little-known story of a fierce rebellion against the Romans: " A very good read for anyone interested in ancient military history and historiography." — The NYMAS ReviewIn the year AD 9, three Roman legions were crushed by the German warlord Arminius in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. This event is well known, but there was another uprising that Rome faced shortly before, which lasted from ... Read more

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  • Out of Italy

    Two Centuries of World Domination and Demise

    by Fernand Braudel ...
    Translated by Siân Reynolds ...
    From the author of Memory and the Mediterranean, a comprehensive history of the Italian city states from 1450 to 1650.In the fifteenth century, even before the city states of the Apennine Peninsula began to coalesce into what would become, several centuries later, a nation, "Italy" exerted enormous influence over all of Europe and throughout the Mediterranean. Its cultural, economic, and political ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • Just Another Day in Vietnam

    by Keith M. Nightingale ...
    This military memoir examines one of the most vicious and tragically forgotten battles of the Vietnam War from a variety of perspectives.In June of 1967, the Viet Cong sought to isolate and destroy an elite South Vietnamese unit as part of a new offensive strategy. They sent a voluntary POW as an "informant" to dupe the 52nd Vietnamese Ranger Battalion into taking a dangerous position in the III ... Read more

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  • 140 Days to Hiroshima

    The Story of Japan's Last Chance to Avert Armageddon

    by David Dean Barrett ...
    A WWII history told from US and Japanese perspectives—"an impressively researched chronicle of the months leading up to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima" ( Publishers Weekly).During the closing months of World War II, two military giants locked in a death embrace of cultural differences and diplomatic intransigence. While developing history's deadliest weapon and weighing an invasion that would ... Read more

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  • August 1914

    France, the Great War, and a Month that Changed the World Forever

    by Bruno Cabanes ...
    Translated by Stephanie O'Hara ...
    A renowned military historian closely examines the first month of World War I in France.On August 1, 1914, war erupted into the lives of millions of families across France. Most people thought the conflict would last just a few weeks . . .Yet before the month was out, twenty-seven thousand French soldiers died on the single day of August 22 alone—the worst catastrophe in French military history. ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Eyewitness to World War II

    Guadalcanal Diary, Invasion Diary, and John F. Kennedy and PT-109

    by Richard Tregaskis ...
    Three classic accounts of WWII from a reporter who "shaped America's understanding of the war, and influenced every account that came after" (Mark Bowden).Volunteer combat correspondent Richard Tregaskis risked life and limb to give American readers a soldier's–eye view of the Second World War. These three tales of bravery and sacrifice shed light on the Greatest Generation's darkest hours ... Read more

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