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  • The Best War Ever

    America and World War II

    by Michael C. C. Adams ...
    Series series The American Moment
    The most readable—and searingly honest—short book ever written on this pivotal conflict.Was World War II really such a "good war"? Popular memory insists that it was, in fact, "the best war ever." After all, we knew who the enemy was, and we understood what we were fighting for. The war was good for the economy. It was liberating for women. A battle of tanks and airplanes, it was a "cleaner" war ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Living Hell

    The Dark Side of the Civil War

    by Michael C. C. Adams ...
    A senior military historian presents an unflinching account of the human costs of the Civil War.Many Americans, argues Michael C. C. Adams, tend to think of the Civil War as more glorious, less awful, than the reality. Millions of tourists flock to battlefields each year as vacation destinations, their perceptions of the war often shaped by reenactors who work hard for verisimilitude but who ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Echoes of War

    A Thousand Years of Military History in Popular Culture

    by Michael C.C. Adams ...
    Americans are often accused of not appreciating history, but this charge belies the real popular interest in the past. Historical reenactments draw thousands of spectators; popular histories fill the bestseller lists; PBS, A&E and The History Channel air a dizzying array of documentaries and historical dramas; and Hollywood war movies become blockbusters.Though historians worry that these popular ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Living Hell

    The Dark Side of the Civil War

    by Michael C. C. Adams ...
    A senior military historian presents an unflinching account of the human costs of the Civil War.Many Americans, argues Michael C. C. Adams, tend to think of the Civil War as more glorious, less awful, than the reality. Millions of tourists flock to battlefields each year as vacation destinations, their perceptions of the war often shaped by reenactors who work hard for verisimilitude but who ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • The Best War Ever

    America and World War II

    by Michael C. C. Adams ...
    Series series The American Moment
    The most readable—and searingly honest—short book ever written on this pivotal conflict.Was World War II really such a "good war"? Popular memory insists that it was, in fact, "the best war ever." After all, we knew who the enemy was, and we understood what we were fighting for. The war was good for the economy. It was liberating for women. A battle of tanks and airplanes, it was a "cleaner" war ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Living Hell

    The Dark Side of the Civil War

    by Michael C.C. Adams ...
    Narrated by Mitch Crawford ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 22 min

    Many Americans, argues Michael C. C. Adams, tend to think of the Civil War as more glorious, less awful, than the reality. In Living Hell, Adams tries a different tack, clustering the voices of myriad actual participants on the firing line or in the hospital ward to create a virtual historical reenactment.Neither film nor reenactment can fully capture the hard truth of the four-year conflict. ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    The Best War Ever

    America and World War II

    by Michael C.C. Adams ...
    Narrated by Alister Austin ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 8 min

    The most readable-and searingly honest-short book ever written on this pivotal conflict.Was World War II really such a "good war"? Popular memory insists that it was, in fact, "the best war ever." After all, we knew who the enemy was, and we understood what we were fighting for. The war was good for the economy. It was liberating for women. A battle of tanks and airplanes, it was a "cleaner" war ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Civil War Guerrilla

    Unfolding the Black Flag in History, Memory, and Myth

    by Joseph M. Beilein Jr., Matthew C. Hulbert ...
    Series series New Directions in Southern History
    Civil War historians shed new light on the importance of guerrilla combat across the south in this "useful and fascinating work" ( Choice).Touching states from Virginia to New Mexico, guerrilla warfare played a significant yet underexamined role in the Civil War. Guerrilla fighters fought for both the Union and the Confederacy—as well as their own ethnic groups, tribes, or families. They were ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Canada in the Great Power Game 1914-2014

    by Gwynne Dyer ...
    Canada in the Great Power Game 1914-2014 is a serious contemplation of what it means to engage in major world conflicts, and the price we pay when we do.The First World War was Canada's baptism of fire, or at least the only one that people now remember. (Montrealers in 1776 or Torontonians in 1814 would have taken a different view.) From 1914 to 1918, after a century of peace, Canadians were ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • This Republic of Suffering

    Death and the American Civil War (National Book Award Finalist)

    by Drew Gilpin Faust ...
    Series series Vintage Civil War Library
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • An "extraordinary ... profoundly moving" history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil War that reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation.An estiated 750,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • War: How Conflict Shaped Us

    by Margaret MacMillan ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED for the 2021 Lionel Gelber PrizeThoughtful and brilliant insights into the very nature of war--from the ancient Greeks to modern times--from world-renowned historian Margaret MacMillan.War--its imprint in our lives and our memories--is all around us, from the metaphors we use to the names on our maps. As books, movies, and television series show, we are drawn to the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

    by John J. Mearsheimer ...
    "A superb book....Mearsheimer has made a significant contribution to our understanding of the behavior of great powers."—The National Interest, Barry R. PosenA decade after the cold war ended, policy makers and academics foresaw a new era of peace and prosperity, an era in which democracy and open trade would herald the "end of history." The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, sadly shattered ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD