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  • Passport Not Required

    U.S. Volunteers in the Royal Navy, 1939-1941

    by Estate of Eric J Dietrich-Berryman USN (Ret.), Charlotte E Hammond, Ronald E White ...
    Before America entered World War II, twenty-two U.S. citizens went to England and volunteered with the Royal Navy. Commissioned between September 1939 and November 1941, they fought in the Battle of the Atlantic and on a variety of fronts. While the history of Americans serving in the Royal Air Force is well known, the story of these naval volunteers has not been previously told. Most trained at ... Read more

    $13.19 CAD

  • Vodou in the Haitian Experience

    A Black Atlantic Perspective

    by Patrick Delices, Patricia Marie-Emmanuelle Donatien, Charlotte Hammond, Benjamin Hebblethwaite, Tammie Jenkins, Barbara Lewis, Ann E. Mazzocca, Bronwyn Mills, Mambo Vye Zo Komande LaMenfo DaGinen (Patricia D. Scheu), Kantara Souffrant, Michel Weber ...
    One glaring lacuna in studies of Haitian Vodou is the scarcity of works exploring the connection between the religion and its main roots, traditional Yoruba religion. Discussions of Vodou very often seem to present the religion in vacuo, as a sui generis phenomenon that arose in Saint-Domingue and evolved in Haiti, with no antecedents. What is sorely needed then is more comparative studies of ... Read more

    $136.79 CAD

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    The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

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  • Assault on Juno

    by Mark Zuehlke ...
    Series series Rapid Reads
    Dawn, June 6, 1944. Off the Normandy coast 6,500 ships carry 150,000 Allied troops. This is D-Day, the long-awaited Allied invasion of German-occupied Europe. The Allies will storm five beaches. One is code-named Juno Beach. Here, 14,500 Canadians will land on a five-mile stretch of sand backed by three resort towns. The beach is heavily protected by a seawall, barbed wire, underwater obstacles ... Read more

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  • The Longest Day

    The Classic Epic of D-Day

    by Cornelius Ryan ...
    From the acclaimed author of A Bridge Too Far comes the unparalleled, classic work of history that vividly recreates the battle that changed World War II—the Allied invasion of Normandy.The Longest Day is Cornelius Ryan’s unsurpassed account of D-Day, a book that endures as a masterpiece of military history. In this compelling tale of courage and heroism, glory and tragedy, Ryan painstakingly ... Read more

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  • The Necessary War, Volume 1

    by Tim Cook ...
    Series Book 3 - Canadians Fighting
    Co-winner of the 2014-2015 Charles P. Stacey AwardTim Cook, Canada’s leading war historian, ventures deep into World War Two in this epic two-volume story of heroism and horror, of loss and longing, sacrifice and endurance.Written in Cook’s compelling narrative style, this book shows in impressive detail how soldiers, airmen, and sailors fought—the evolving tactics, weapons of war, logistics, and ... Read more

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  • Target Tirpitz

    X-Craft, Agents and Dambusters - The Epic Quest to Destroy Hitler’s Mightiest Warship

    by Patrick Bishop ...
    A gripping account of the epic hunt for Hitler’s most terrifying battleship – the legendary Tirpitz – and the brave men who risked their lives to attack and destroy this most potent symbol of the Nazi’s fearsome war machine.Tirpitz was the pride of Hitler’s navy. To Churchill, she was ‘the Beast’, a menace to Britain’s supply lines and a threat to the convoys sustaining Stalin’s armies. Tirpitz ... Read more

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  • H.M.S. Rodney

    Warships of the Royal Navy

    by Iain Ballantyne ...
    The biography of a British battleship, from an author with " a facility for rendering nonfiction into a narrative as brisk and readable as a novel" ( HistoryNet).The Second World War battleship HMS Rodney achieved lasting fame for her role in destroying the pride of Hitler's navy, the mighty Bismarck, in a thrilling duel. The Rodney, carrying the largest guns ever mounted in a British warship, ... Read more

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  • The World War II Collection

    The Miracle of Dunkirk, Day of Infamy, and Incredible Victory

    by Walter Lord ...
    Full-length accounts of three decisive WWII events—Pearl Harbor, Midway, and the evacuation of Dunkirk—from a #1 New York Times –bestselling author.In May 1940, the remnants of the French and British armies, broken by Hitler's blitzkrieg, retreated to the beach at Dunkirk. Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered an evacuation on May 26, expecting to save no more than a handful of his men. But ... Read more

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  • A Bastard of a Place

    by Peter Brune ...
    '. . . Brune's book is a timely reminder that despite the warmest alliances, nations sometimes have to stand up and save themselves.' - The Weekend Australian Financial Review'. . . A Bastard of a Place undeniably ranks as the best book ever written about the Aussie battles in Papua . . . Very highly recommended, and certainly one of the best books of the year.' - Bill Stone, Stone + Stone Second ... Read more

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  • John Moffat: Legend of the Bismarck

    by Richard Edwards ...
    Series series British Flying Legends
    DESCRIPTIONJohn Moffat: Legend of the Bismarck tells the remarkable story of a Fleet Air Arm pilot and flying legend who, with a single torpedo strike, delivered from an obsolete biplane, in a force nine gale, in the middle of the Atlantic, brought about the sinking of Nazi Germany’s most powerful battleship, the Bismarck.This short book gives the reader a concise and straightforward insight into ... Read more

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  • Great Canadian War Heroes

    Victoria Cross Recepients of World War II

    by Tom Douglas ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    Great Canadian War Heroes tells the amazing stories of the 16 Canadians who received the Victoria Cross during WWII. They came from all walks of life and from various ranks within the Canadian Forces, but they all had one thing in common: each displayed exceptional bravery in the face of the enemy. ... Read more

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