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  • Graves & Sassoon

    On the Trail of the Poets of the Great War

    by Helen McPhail, Philip Guest ...
    Series series Battleground Europe
    The war memoirs of these two officers with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers have never been out of print since their first publication. Both men won instant and enduring fame with these very different narratives, which made them two of the most influential participants in shaping later attitudes to the war. Graves gave offence in many quarters with his factual inaccuracies and/or slurs on various units ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wartime Captivity in the 20th Century

    Archives, Stories, Memories

    Edited by Anne-Marie Pathé, Fabien Théofilakis, Helen McPhail ...
    Series Book 19 - Studies in Contemporary European History
    Long a topic of historical interest, wartime captivity has over the past decade taken on new urgency as an object of study. Transnational by its very nature, captivity’s historical significance extends far beyond the front lines, ultimately inextricable from the histories of mobilization, nationalism, colonialism, law, and a host of other related subjects. This wide-ranging volume brings together ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • St Quentin

    Hindenburg Line

    by Philip Guest, Helen McPhail ...
    Series series Battleground Europe
    After the First World War, how many thousands of British families would have proud or bitter reason to remember the name St Quentin? At least eight Divisions, 23 Brigades, 74 Battalions an enormous number of fighting men, a weight of experience, courage, defeat and victory, all to be traced through these fields and villages round the city. There is much to honour here: exhausted British troops ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wilfred Owen

    On the Trail of the Poets of the Great War

    by Philip Guest, Helen McPhail ...
    Series series Battleground Europe
    This is a guide to the battlefields that inspired the young and sensitive poet, whose poems are probably the twentieth century's best-known literary expressions of experience of war. Detailed maps, military diaries, photographs and modern roads guide the visitor through the battlefields. Owen's letters are used extensively, together with his poetry, linking specific places events, vividly ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Republican Identities in War and Peace

    Representations of France in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

    by Antoine Prost ...
    Translated by Jay Winter, Helen McPhail ...
    Series series The Legacy of the Great War
    Antoine Prost's contributions to French history have enabled us to understand the failure of fascism in France and why the Republic survived the humiliation of occupation and collaboration in the Second World War. He is the pre-eminent historian of civil society in France. For the first time his seminal articles have been translated into English and collected in this single volume. Beginning with ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Acquired Tastes

    Why Families Eat the Way They Do

    by Brenda L. Beagan, Gwen E. Chapman, Josée Johnston, Deborah McPhail, Elaine M. Power, Helen Vallianatos ...
    Magazine articles, news items, and self-improvement books tell us that our daily food choices – whether we opt for steak or vegetarian, a TV dinner or a sit-down meal – serve as bold statements about who we are as individuals. Acquired Tastes makes the case that our food habits say more about where we come from and who we would like to be.This intimate portrait of eating habits and attitudes ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD