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  • Building a Capable State

    Service Delivery in Post-Apartheid South Africa

    by Ian Palmer, Nishendra Moodley, Susan Parnell ...
    The sustainable development goals signed in 2016 marked a new phase in global development thinking, one which is focused on ecologically and fiscally sustainable human settlements. Few countries offer a better testing ground for their attainment than post-apartheid South Africa. Since the coming to power of the African National Congress, the country has undergone a policy making revolution, driven ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • What to Expect When You're Adopting...

    A practical guide to the decisions and emotions involved in adoption

    by Dr Ian Palmer ...
    As would-be parents cycle through the adoption process, they balance anxiety and fear with the life-altering decision of adoption. The emotional toll of this dance can be completely overwhelming and can confuse parents while navigating the decisions of how to expand their families.Drawing on extensive research and the author's own experience of being adopted, What to Expect When You're Adopting... ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • German Commerce Raider vs British Cruiser

    The Atlantic & The Pacific 1941

    by Robert Forczyk ...
    Series Book 27 - Duel
    The history of one of the greatest acts of deception as Kriegsmarine raiders disguised as merchant ships wrecked havoc on Allied shipping and the Allied cruisers who finally destroyed them.During World War II, the Kriegsmarine armed a number of merchant vessels with concealed guns and torpedo tubes for surprise attacks against Allied shipping. To counter this deadly threat, the Royal Navy employed ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • German Field Fortifications 1939–45

    by Gordon L. Rottman ...
    Series Book 23 - Fortress
    The German Army of World War II considered itself an offensive, mobile force.The experiences in the trenches in World War I had done much to shape its concept of field fortification, and its mobile warfare ethos was intended to prevent the previous war's stalemate. This book addresses frontline defensive field fortifications, built by infantrymen using local materials, and includes rifle platoon ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Japanese Pacific Island Defenses 1941–45

    by Gordon L. Rottman ...
    Series Book 1 - Fortress
    An illustrated guide to the defences beset by prolonged and bloody fighting for control of the Japanese occupied Pacific islands in World War II.No two islands were alike in the systems and nature of their defensive emplacements, and local improvization and command preferences affected both materials used and defensive models. This title details the establishment, construction and effectiveness of ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Abbey Art Centre in Postwar London 1946–1956

    Edited by Jane Eckett, Ian McLean, Sheridan Palmer ...
    William Ohly’s Abbey Art Centre has long been sidelined in Australian art history and all but invisible in British accounts due to the dominance of national art histories. Yet over twenty Australian artists lived and worked there during the centre’s first decade of operations, including Robert Klippel, James Gleeson and the art historian Bernard Smith, alongside such avant-garde British figures as ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Nelson's Folly

    Sometimes the hero isn't the one we all knew

    by Oliver Greeves ...
    Narrated by Oliver Greeves, Ian Palmer ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 45 min

    The French Revolutionary Wars have begun, and as fighting intensifies, Horatio is recalled to sea.As the years pass and the war rages on, Horatio Nelson becomes a lauded hero, while Fanny loyally manages their affairs back in England. But Horatio’s success in battle has changed him – he’s proud, arrogant, bitter. How can a woman like Fanny, self-reliant but bound by 18th century attitudes, face ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • U-Boat Bases and Bunkers 1941–45

    by Gordon Williamson ...
    Series Book 3 - Fortress
    Few of the massive military structures built by Germany during World War II are as impressive as the U-Boat bases and bunkers in Germany, Norway and France.This title takes a close look at the formidable edifices on the French coast (Brest, Lorient, St Nazaire, La Pallice, Bordeaux) in Norway (Bergen, Trondheim) and in Germany (Keil, Hamburg, Helgoland) and also focuses on the huge 'Valentin' ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • US World War II and Korean War Field Fortifications 1941–53

    by Gordon L. Rottman ...
    Series Book 29 - Fortress
    Gordon L Rottman explores the design development and combat history of the US Army's field fortifications during these two major wars, alongside illustrations and diagrams throughout.The US Army and Marine Corps in World War II considered themselves highly mobile, offensive forces. Their mobile-warfare doctrine envisioned field fortifications and obstacles as temporary in nature. As a result, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Wolf Pack

    The Story of the U-Boat in World War II

    by Gordon Williamson ...
    In this comprehensive book, the wartime development of the U-Boat is traced along with the experiences of typical U-Boat crewmen, from recruitment to combat.Germany's World War II U-Boat fleet represented the elite of their naval personnel. In terms of technology, training, tactics and combat successes, the U-Boat Waffe was far superior to that of any other combatant nation. Gordon Williamson ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Carlson’s Marine Raiders

    Makin Island 1942

    by Gordon L. Rottman ...
    Series Book 44 - Raid
    On August 17–18, 1942, 211 men of the US Marine Corps' 2nd Raider Battalion conducted a daring amphibious raid on the Japanese-occupied Makin Island in the South Pacific. This ambitious but flawed operation was intended to divert Japanese reinforcements bound for Guadalcanal, over 1,000 miles to the southwest, in the wake of the US landings there ten days earlier; the Raiders were to destroy the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • U-boat Tactics in World War II

    by Gordon Williamson ...
    Series Book 183 - Elite
    From the lone, stealth attack to the fearsome potential of the legendary 'wolf packs', this book provides crucial insight into how U-boats operated in the war.At the start of the war, German U-boat technology vastly out performed that possessed by the Allies, and under the pressure of the war continual development helped keep pace with wartime needs and improvements in anti-submarine weaponry. But ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD