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  • When the Great Red Dawn Is Shining

    Howard L. Moery's Memoirs of Life in the Newfoundland Regiment

    by Christopher J.A. Morry ...
    On their march towards the Somme, and Beaumont Hamel, the young men of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment raised their voices to sing “When the Great Red Dawn is Shining,” a song about returning home to the people they love. Howard Morry was one of the young men who managed to make it back. And now, one hundred years after the events that changed his life, we hear Morry’s voice, in these pages, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Mr. Big

    The Investigation into the Deaths of Karen and Krista Hart

    by Colleen Lewis, Jennifer Hicks ...
    Mr. Big is the shocking true story of a murder investigation in Newfoundland and Labrador that forever changed the face of the Canadian justice system. On August 4, 2002, three-year-old twin girls Karen and Krista Hart drowned in Gander Lake. They had gone there with their father. He said it was an accident, but the police were convinced Nelson Hart had killed his daughters that day. With not ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • 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

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Old Enough to Fight

    Canada's Boy Soldiers in the First World War

    by Dan Black, John Boileau ...
    Between 15,000 and 20,000 underage youths, some as young as ten, signed up to fight in Canada's armed forces in the First World War. They served in the trenches alongside their elders, and fought in all the major battles: Ypres, the Somme, Passchendaele, Vimy Ridge, and the rest. Many were injured or suffered psychological wounds. Many died. This is the first book to tell their story.Some boys ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • 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

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • 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

  • Divided Loyalties

    The Liberal Party of Canada, 1984-2008

    by Jeffrey Brooke ...
    The Liberal Party has governed Canada for much of the country's history. Yet over the past two decades, the 'natural governing party' has seen a decrease in traditional support, finding itself in opposition for nearly half of that time. In Divided Loyalties, Brooke Jeffrey draws on her own experience as a party insider and on interviews with more than sixty senior Liberals to follow the trajectory ... Read more

    $49.99 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