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  • Hitler Strikes North

    The Nazi Invasion of Norway and Denmark, 9 April 1940

    A detailed account of Germany's groundbreaking Operation Weserübung, the first three dimensional—land, sea, air—strategic invasion in history.The German invasion of Denmark and Norway in April 1940 brought a sudden and shocking end to the "Phoney War" in the West. In a single day, multiple seaborne and airborne landings established German forces ashore in Norway, overwhelming the unprepared ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Slim Hardy Mystery Series Books 1-3 Boxed Set

    by Jack Benton ...
    Narrated by Kevin E Green ...
    Series series The Slim Hardy Mystery Series

    Unabridged

    16 hours 9 min

    THE FIRST THREE SLIM HARDY MYSTERIES COLLECTED TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME.THE MAN BY THE SEAJohn "Slim" Hardy, heavy drinker and disgraced soldier turned bumbling private detective, is hired to investigate Ted Douglas, an investment banker who slips out of work every Friday to visit a desolate cove on the Lancashire coast. There, he walks to the shore, opens an old book, and begins to read aloud ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Along the Old Pier

    by Jack Benton ...
    Narrated by Kevin E Green ...
    Series Audiobook 10 - The Slim Hardy Mysteries

    Unabridged

    5 hours 47 min

    “I was only gone a half hour. When I came back, he was gone.”Puppeteer Bob Harker has wandered the grey sands of Weston-Super-Mare for as long as anyone can remember, peddling his own brand of Punch’n’Judy to tourists and locals alike. Now, according to Reggie Bowles, his best friend, Bob Harker is dead.The only problem is that Bob’s body has disappeared.Convinced by Reggie to investigate both Bob ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pursuits of Happiness

    The Social Development of Early Modern British Colonies and the Formation of American Culture

    In this book, Jack Greene reinterprets the meaning of American social development. Synthesizing literature of the previous two decades on the process of social development and the formation of American culture, he challenges the central assumptions that have traditionally been used to analyze colonial British American history.Greene argues that the New England declension model traditionally ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Naval War in the Mediterranean, 1940–1943

    This superbly researched book gives a complete account of the war in the Mediterranean on, above and beneath the sea up until Italy's armistice in September 1943. Written with full access to Italian sources, it not only provides a detailed and fascinating narrative of the entire naval war, but also sets the individual actions fully in their strategic context for both the Axis and the Allies. ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Black Prince And The Sea Devils

    The Story Of Valerio Borghese And The Elite Units Of The Decima Mas

    At the beginning of World War II, Prince Junio Valerio Borghese, dashing Italian nobleman, assembled the famous Decima MAS naval unit-the first modern naval commando squad. Borghese's "frogmen" were trained to fight undercover and underwater with small submarines and assault boats armed with a variety of destructive torpedoes. The covert tactics he and the Decima MAS developed, including the use ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Slow Train

    by Jack Benton ...
    Narrated by Kevin E Green ...
    Series Audiobook 4 - The Slim Hardy Mysteries

    Unabridged

    4 hours 57 min

    Slow Train: A thrilling British mystery that will leave you guessing until the last page...On the evening of Saturday, January 15th, 1977, a local commuter train is delayed at a small village station by a freak blizzard. Young nurse Jennifer Evans, keen to get back to her family, plans to walk the last couple of miles to her home in a neighbouring village. She phones her daughter to confirm that ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Here the Road Ends

    by Jack Benton ...
    Narrated by Kevin E Green ...
    Series Audiobook 9 - The Slim Hardy Mysteries

    Unabridged

    4 hours 52 min

    THE NEW JOHN "SLIM" HARDY MYSTERYWhen her mentally disabled son develops a strange obsession, Audrey Johnson contacts private investigator John “Slim” Hardy for help.Andy Johnson has been making teddy bears and leaving them on the memorial of a nine-year-old girl who drowned on Dartmoor more than forty years ago. When nothing will put him off his bizarre tribute to a child who died before he was ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    When the Wind Blows

    by Jack Benton ...
    Narrated by Kevin E Green ...
    Series Audiobook 7 - The Slim Hardy Mysteries

    Unabridged

    5 hours 2 min

    Traumatised by a recent case, private investigator John “Slim” Hardy tries to create a new life for himself on the remote Cornish coast. However, when he is recognised by a local woman, he is unable to resist the draw of a dark mystery which has left a long shadow over the village.Fourteen years earlier, a local man, Richard Maynard, died in mysterious circumstances. The only witness was his five ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    The Circus Lights

    by Jack Benton ...
    Narrated by Kevin E Green ...
    Series Audiobook 8 - The Slim Hardy Mysteries

    Unabridged

    4 hours 39 min

    THE NEW SLIM HARDY MYSTERYOne autumn night in 1992, young trapeze artist Maria’s circus career is cut short by a shocking fall. Later investigation reveals sabotage, but by then the ramshackle Southern Cross Circus has folded, and its garrulous ring master and owner fled to Spain.And the prime suspect in the possible crime, Maria’s boyfriend, has disappeared without trace, never to be seen again ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Intellectual Construction of America

    Exceptionalism and Identity From 1492 to 1800

    Jack Greene explores the changing definitions of America from the time of Europe’s first contact with the New World through the establishment of the American republic. Challenging historians who have argued that colonial American societies differed little from those of early modern Europe, he shows that virtually all contemporary observers emphasized the distinctiveness of the new worlds being ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Quest for Power

    The Lower Houses of Assembly in the Southern Royal Colonies, 1689-1776

    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    In this study, Greene describes the rise of the lower houses in the four southern royal colonies — Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia — in the period between the Glorious Revolution and the American War for Independence. It assesses the consequences of the success of the lower houses, especially the relationship between their rise to power and the coming of the American ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD