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  • Father Duffy's Story, A Tale of Humor and Heroism, of Life and Death with the Fighting Sixty-Ninth

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by Francis Patrick Duffy ...
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    Father Francis Duffy, U. S. Army chaplain during World War One, recalls his time fighting alongside the famous 69th Infantry Regiment on the western front. Comprised mostly of Irish Catholic volunteers who enlisted in and around New York City, the 'Fighting Sixty-Ninth' already had a long history and a reputation for bravery and grit. Father Duffy is frank and upfront, recalling the conversations ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Father Duffy's Story; A Tale Of Humor And Heroism, Of Life And Death With The Fighting Sixty-Ninth [Illustrated Edition]

    by Father Francis Patrick Duffy ...
    [Includes 8 photograph illustrations]On the northern half of Times Square in the heart of New York is a square named after Father Francis Patrick Duffy, a priest whose faith in God was only matched by the attachment to his flock. He is mainly known for his legendary exploits as chaplain of the Fighting Sixty-Ninth regiment (renumbered the 165th in Federal Army List) in the First World War. The ... Read more

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  • Father Duffy's Story: A Tale of Humor and Heroism, of Life and Death with the Fighting Sixty-ninth

    by Francis Patrick Duffy ...
    "Father Duffy's Story...is the most human and lovable book of personal experience that has come out of the war." -NY Times, Jan. 4, 1920"A graphic picture of American heroism in Europe." The Fortnightly Review, 1920"Holds interest in every page." The Weekly Review, 1920"An account of heroism and humor of peculiar interest." The Literary Digest, 1920As World War I gradually recedes into the past, ... Read more

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  • Vimy

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    The bestselling, award-winning author of The American Invasion of Canada "has given great drama and immediacy to that turning point in Canadian history" ( Maclean's).On Easter Monday 1917 with a blizzard blowing in their faces, the four divisions of the Canadian Corps in France seized and held the best-defended German bastion on the Western Front—the muddy scarp of Vimy Ridge. The British had ... Read more

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  • Sub Rosa

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    A thrilling history of the Office of Strategic Services, America's precursor to the CIA, and its secret operations behind enemy lines during World War II.Born in the fires of the Second World War, the Office of Strategic Services, or OSS, was the brainchild of legendary US Maj. Gen. William "Wild Bill" Donovan, designed to provide covert aid to resistance fighters in European nations occupied by ... Read more

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  • The Deserters

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  • The Remains of Company D

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  • Captain Henry Evelyn Arthur Platt - Diaries and Letters of a First World War Officer in the 19th Hussars and 1st Coldstream Guards

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    Diary and letters of Captain Henry Evelyn Arthur Platt including his time at Eton, Sandhurst and in the First World War where he served as a Captain in the 19th Hussars before transferring to the Coldstream Guards after a dispute with his Major over the safety of his men. He describes life in the Cavalry, how he was gassed in May 1915, and life in the trenches.He was killed in action near Ypres in ... Read more

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  • Eyewitnesses at the Somme

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  • The Warfare Collection - Complete Historiographical Military Works of Rudyard Kipling (Annotated)

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