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  • How to Become a Bag Sewer

    by Shumate Adam ...
    This publication, published by SamEnrico, covers How to Become a Bag Sewer ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Japanese Soldier vs US Marine

    Iwo Jima and Okinawa 1945

    by Gregg Adams ...
    Series Book 89 - Combat
    This fully illustrated study investigates the American and Japanese fighting men who confronted one another on Iwo Jima and Okinawa in 1945.In the closing months of World War II, as Imperial Japan faced the prospect of shattering defeat, the US Marine Corps won immortal fame for its valor, first on Iwo Jima and then on Okinawa. Featuring photographs, maps, and original artwork, this absorbing ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • US Soldier vs British Soldier

    War of 1812

    by Gregg Adams ...
    Series Book 54 - Combat
    Between June 1812 and January 1815, US and British forces, notably the regular infantrymen of both sides (including the Canadian Fencibles Regiment), fought one another on a host of North American battlefields.This study examines the evolving role and combat performance of the two sides' regulars during the conflict, with particular reference to three revealing battles in successive years: ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Medieval Cannon 1326–1494

    by Jonathan Davies ...
    Series Book 273 - New Vanguard
    The first illustration of a cannon in Europe can be dated quite precisely to 1326.This book explores the development of gunpowder, the earliest appearance of cast-bronze cannon in Western Europe, followed by the design and development of the wrought-iron cannon. The wrought-iron hoop-and-stave method of barrel construction was a system that came to dominate medieval artillery design both large and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Japanese Infantryman vs US Marine Rifleman

    Tarawa, Roi-Namur, and Eniwetok, 1943–44

    by Gregg Adams ...
    Series Book 75 - Combat
    Featuring evocative artwork plates and carefully selected photographs, this book assesses the US Marines and Japanese troops who contested the islands of Tarawa, Roi-Namur, and Eniwetok during 1943–44.On November 20, 1943, amphibious vehicles carrying Marines of the 2d Marine Division reached the shores of Betio Island in the Tarawa Atoll, defended by a determined Japanese garrison that would ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • US Marine vs Japanese Soldier

    Saipan, Guam, and Peleliu, 1944

    by Gregg Adams ...
    Series Book 77 - Combat
    Fully illustrated, this book assesses the US Marines and Japanese troops fighting in three bloody battles of World War II in the Pacific.In June 1944, the United States military launched an offensive against the Japanese forces holding the Mariana Islands and Palau. The US Marine Corps played a vital role in this campaign alongside Army and Navy forces, while their Japanese opponents mounted a ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • King's African Rifles Soldier vs Schutztruppe Soldier

    East Africa 1917–18

    by Gregg Adams ...
    Series Book 20 - Combat
    Specially commissioned artwork and thrilling combat accounts transport the reader to the far-flung and inhospitable East African theatre of World War I, where the Schutztruppe faced off against the King's African Rifles.In an attempt to divert Allied forces from the Western Front, a small German colonial force under the command of Oberst Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck raided British and Portuguese ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • The Battle for Tinian

    Vital Stepping Stone in America's War Against Japan

    by Nathan N. Prefer ...
    This vivid history chronicles the decisive US naval campaign that secured the Japanese island of Tinian—the site that would launch the end of WWII.In July 1944, the United States Navy and Marine Corps, Army, and Air Corps descended on the Pacific island of Saipan, just three miles away from the Japanese stronghold on the island of Tinian. There had been 20,000 Japanese troops on Saipan before the ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cinderella Army

    The Canadians in Northwest Europe, 1944-1945

    by Terry Copp ...
    In his controversial and award-winning 2003 book Fields of Fire, Terry Copp offered a stunning reversal of accepted military history, challenging the conventional view that the Canadian contribution to the Battle of Normandy was a failure. Cinderella Army continues the story of the operations carried out by the First Canadian Army in the last nine months of the war, and extends the argument ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • War at the End of the World

    Douglas MacArthur and the Forgotten Fight For New Guinea, 1942-1945

    by James P. Duffy ...
    A harrowing account of an epic, yet nearly forgotten, battle of World War II—General Douglas MacArthur's four-year assault on the Pacific War's most hostile battleground: the mountainous, jungle-cloaked island of New Guinea.“A meaty, engrossing narrative history… This will likely stand as the definitive account of the New Guinea campaign.”—The Christian Science MonitorOne American soldier called ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • War in the Pacific

    From Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay

    by Harry Gailey ...
    Historian Harry Gailey offers a fresh one-volume treatment of the vast Pacific theater in World War II, examining in detail the performance of Japanese and Allied naval, air, and land forces in every major military operation. The War in the Pacific begins with an examination of events leading up to World War II and compares the Japanese and American economies and societies, as well as the chief ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Battle of Iwo Jima

    The Fight for the Pacific, 1945

    by Andrew Rawson ...
    On 19 February 1945, Operation Detachment began with US marine forces storming Iwo Jima, aiming to capture the island and its airfields. This was the first campaign on Japanese soil and would result in some of the fiercest fighting in the Pacific. A brutal example of war at all costs, the defending garrison fought to almost the last man; it was a fight they couldn't hope to win against the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus