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  • Christmas Truce

    The Western Front December 1914

    by Malcolm Brown, Shirley Seaton ...
    ‘Just you think,’ wrote one soldier to his family, ‘that while you were eating your turkey I was out talking with the very men I had been trying to kill a few hours before!’Christmas, 1914. The first winter of the First World War. In a conflict infamous for its horror and brutality, enemy shook hands with enemy. Soldiers shared rations, exchanged souvenirs, and even played football on a frost ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • The Last Battle

    The Classic History of the Battle for Berlin

    by Cornelius Ryan ...
    Series series A History Bestseller
    The classic account of the final offensive against Hitler’s Third Reich.The Battle for Berlin was the culminating struggle of World War II in the European theater, the last offensive against Hitler’s Third Reich, which devastated one of Europe’s historic capitals and marked the final defeat of Nazi Germany. It was also one of the war’s bloodiest and most pivotal battles, whose outcome would shape ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Blitzkrieg Myth

    How Hitler and the Allies Misread the Strategic Realities of World War II

    by John Mosier ...
    Many military tactics during World War II were based on the assumption that new technologies would lead to decisive battlefield victories, demoralization of the enemy by intensive bombing, or even a quick surrender. Political and military leaders, Allies and Axis alike, believed that "blitzkrieg" was the best way to victory. But in The Blitzkrieg Myth, John Mosier argues that this was not the case ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Baptism Of Fire

    The Second Battle of Ypres and the Forging of Canada, April 1915

    by Nathan M. Greenfield ...
    The Second Battle of Ypres was, by any definition, a brutal event in a brutal war. The already terrible conditions of trench warfare, punctuated by the unimaginable horror of shell fire that turned men into “pink mist,” became even worse when the Germans introduced chlorine gas. But despite the terror, the battle marked a key moment in the formation of Canadian identity and pride. After the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Longest Day

    The Classic Epic of D-Day

    by Cornelius Ryan ...
    From the acclaimed author of A Bridge Too Far comes the unparalleled, classic work of history that vividly recreates the battle that changed World War II—the Allied invasion of Normandy.The Longest Day is Cornelius Ryan’s unsurpassed account of D-Day, a book that endures as a masterpiece of military history. In this compelling tale of courage and heroism, glory and tragedy, Ryan painstakingly ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Cro-Magnon

    How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans

    by Brian Fagan ...
    A Los Angeles Times BestsellerNew York Times best-selling author Brian Fagan explores the world of the Cro-Magnons--the mysterious, little-known race, famous for its cave paintings, that survived the Ice Age and became the ancestors of today's humans.They survived by their wits in a snowbound world, hunting, and sometimes being hunted by, animals many times their size. By flickering firelight, ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • How Canada Won the Great War

    by Robert Child ...
    For nearly 100 years Canada's role in ending WWI sooner than anyone thought possible has gone largely unrecognized. The Canadian Corp led by citizen soldier, Arthur Currie, became the premiere fighting force on the Western Front. The fact that Canada was not yet a formalized nation but a Dominion at the close of the war may be the reason for the absence of recognition yet the record of the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Royal Weddings, A Very Peculiar History

    by Fiona Macdonald ...
    Series Book 30 - A Very Peculiar History
    With the echo of regal church bells still ringing in the ears of royalists and well-wishers worldwide, Fiona Macdonald take a look at the quirky, odd and downright bizarre circumstances surrounding the weddings of the kings, queens, princes and princesses of Britain. One must leave one's sense of decorum at the palace gates as the author tells the wacky stories surrounding the preparations, ... Read more

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  • Prisoners of the North

    by Pierre Berton ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLERCanada’s master storyteller returns to the North to chronicle the extraordinary stories of five inspiring and controversial characters.Canada’s master storyteller returns to the North to bring history to life. Prisoners of the North tells the extraordinary stories of five inspiring and controversial characters whose adventures in Canada’ s frozen wilderness are no less ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • An Army at Dawn

    The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy

    by Rick Atkinson ...
    Series Book 1 - The Liberation Trilogy
    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn the first volume of his monumental trilogy about the liberation of Europe in World War II, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson tells the riveting story of the war in North Africa.The liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is a story of courage and enduring triumph, of calamity and miscalculation. In this first volume ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Wolves at the Door

    The True Story of America's Greatest Female Spy

    by Judith L. Pearson ...
    This WWII espionage biography brings "one of America's greatest spies back to life" in a "story of derring-do and white knuckles suspense" (Patrick O'Donnell, author of Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs)Virginia Hall left her comfortable Baltimore roots in 1931 with dreams of becoming a Foreign Service Officer, but her gender—and her wooden leg—kept her from pursuing politics. As Hitler advanced ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Last Man Standing

    The Memiors of a Seaforth Highlander During the Great War

    by Norman Collins ...
    A first-hand account of World War I by a nineteen-year-old Englishman who led a platoon into the carnage of the Battle of the Somme.While researching his excellent earlier book: Veterans of World War I, author Richard Van Emden encountered a fascinating personality of that long-ago conflict. After witnessing German naval attacks on British civilians, Norman Collins enlisted in the Seaforth ... Read more

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