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  • Marne

    by Georges Blond ...
    Series series Stackpole Classics
    One of the decisive battles of the 20th century began on August 29, 1914 with the cry that echoed throughout France: “The Prussians are coming!” It ended on September 10th, that same year. Earlier, more than a million German troops—five massive armies—poured into Belgium and France. The French army began the biggest retreat in its history, and Germany seemed about to triumph. But the German right ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • The Guns of August

    The Outbreak of World War I; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series

    by Barbara W. Tuchman ...
    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • “A brilliant piece of military history which proves up to the hilt the force of Winston Churchill’s statement that the first month of World War I was ‘a drama never surpassed.’”—NewsweekSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all timeIn this landmark account, renowned historian Barbara W. Tuchman re-creates the first month of World War I: ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Waterloo

    Wellington's Victory & Napoleon's Last Campaign

    by Christopher Hibbert ...
    A portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte, the Duke of Wellington, and the fateful clash of their armies in 1815 from "a remarkably good writer" ( The New York Times). It was the greatest of battles—the defining military engagement of the nineteenth century that forever ended one man's dreams of a European empire unified under his rule. This epoch-defining conflict would ultimately be remembered for the ... Read more

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  • The Battle of Waterloo

    by J. Christopher Herold ...
    "My system has changed - no more war, no more conquests," Napoleon announced after his escape from Elba in 1815. In the space of what is now known as the Hundred Days, the deposed French emperor was to demonstrate that nothing had changed. Only forty-six, he still possessed the ambition that made Europe quake at the news of his return to France, the magnetism that made men offering undying ... Read more

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  • The Price of Glory

    Verdun 1916

    by Alistair Horne ...
    The battle of Verdun lasted ten months. It was a battle in which at least 700,000 men fell, along a front of fifteen miles. Its aim was less to defeat the enemy than bleed him to death and a battleground whose once fertile terrain is even now a haunted wilderness. Alistair Horne's classic work, continuously in print for over fifty years, is a profoundly moving, sympathetic study of the battle and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME – First & Second Phase (Complete Edition – Volumes 1&2) (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Eyewitness history of 1916's Allied offensive: tactics, air power, first tanks

    by John Buchan, Reid Graybourne ...
    John Buchan's The Battle of the Somme – First & Second Phase offers a contemporary account of the 1916 offensive, tracing its strategic aims, battlefield geography, troop movements, and shifting fortunes across its opening and subsequent operations. Written in lucid, disciplined prose, it blends military narrative with patriotic interpretation, standing within the wartime documentary tradition ... Read more

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  • To Lose a Battle

    France 1940

    by Alistair Horne ...
    In 1940, the German army fought and won an extraordinary battle with France in six weeks of lightning warfare. With the subtlety and compulsion of a novel, Horne’s narrative shifts from minor battlefield incidents to high military and political decisions, stepping far beyond the confines of military history to form a major contribution to our understanding of the crises of the Franco-German ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Franco-Prussian War 1870–1871, Volume 1

    The Campaign of Sedan: Helmuth Von Moltke and the Overthrow of the Second Empire

    by Quintin Barry ...
    The first volume of this comprehensive study of the Franco-Prussian War presents a detailed account of Germany Confederation's decisive victory over France.In the first part of this two-volume military history, Quintin Barry examines the war against the French Imperial Army waged by the armies of the German Confederation, directed by that supreme military mind, Helmuth von Moltke. Barry places ... Read more

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  • Franco-Prussian War 1870–1871, Volume 2

    After Sedan: Helmuth Von Moltke and the Defeat of the Government of National Defence

    by Quintin Barry ...
    The second volume of this comprehensive military history examines the fall of the Second French Empire and the founding of a unified Germany.Helmuth von Moltke's victory over France in the Battle of Sedan resulted in the capture of Napoleon III. But the war against the Government of National Defense presented quite different problems to von Moltke and his staff.Although the Siege of Paris loomed ... Read more

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  • The March of the Twenty-Six

    by R. F. Delderfield ...
    Series series Pen & Sword Military Classics
    Between the years 1804 and 1815, Napoleon created twenty-six Marshals of France. These men, who held the highest positions in the Empire after Napoleon himself, came from very diverse backgrounds and ranged from a smuggler to a Prince. They acquired titles and great riches but in the end there was only one who was not corrupted by greed or ambition. This book describes their rise and fall. ... Read more

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  • Canada's Hundred Days; With The Canadian Corps From Amiens To Mons, Aug. 8-Nov. 11, 1918.

    by John Frederick Bligh Livesay ...
    The Allied forces on the Western Front had taken a beating under the weight and new tactics of the German army masterminded by General Ludendorff in 1918. However in August the Allies were ready to fight back, and they did so with a vengeance; spearheaded by the Canadian and Australian corps and 500 tanks the allied forces hammered through the German lines. Ludendorff dubbed it as "the Black Day ... Read more

    $1.38 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • To Lose a Battle

    France 1940

    by Alistair Horne ...
    The author has sifted through the vast Nazi archives and the fragmentary records of the beaten Allies to tell the story of the fall of France. The author also wrote "The Price of Glory: Verdun, 1916" and "The Fall of Paris 1870-71". ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD