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“maxime patton”

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  • The Maxims of General Patton

    by Gary L. Bloomfield ...
    Journal entries, speeches, quotes, and more that reveal a new side of this WWII military icon, with period photos included.Gen. George S. Patton was one of the most tenacious, unstoppable players in the United States' European Campaign of World War II. Few know that beneath his tough and sometimes controversial public image was a man of complexity who competed as an Olympic athlete and wrote ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Fall of Japan

    The Final Weeks of World War II in the Pacific

    by William Craig ...
    New York Times Bestseller: A "virtually faultless" account of the last weeks of WWII in the Pacific from both Japanese and American perspectives ( The New York Times Book Review).By midsummer 1945, Japan had long since lost the war in the Pacific. The people were not told the truth, and neither was the emperor. Japanese generals, admirals, and statesmen knew, but only a handful of leaders were ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Captain of the Gate

    by John Birmingham ...
    John Birmingham, a worldwide bestselling author, with a fabulous story in the 'Without Warning' trilogy.A 'What if' story of the Cold War ... a small piece of alternate history of the period told via a biography of one of its players, Lieutenant Branch McKinnon, an adventurer in a different post-WWII world of American isolationism. this alternate history from a very popular and bestselling ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • The Rising Sun

    The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945

    by John Toland ...
    Series series Modern Library War
    “[The Rising Sun] is quite possibly the most readable, yet informative account of the Pacific war.”—Chicago Sun-TimesThis Pulitzer Prize–winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Japanese empire, from the invasion of Manchuria and China to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Told from the Japanese perspective, The Rising Sun is, in the author’s words, ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Omaha Beach (True Combat)

    by Al Cimino ...
    It was easy for the German machine-gunners to concentrate their fire on the ramp of a landing craft as it hit the shore. Inside the landing craft, the assault troops would hear the bullets bouncing like flung pebbles off the metal ramp, knowing that the moment they hit the beach that protection would be snatched away from them. As it dropped, it exposed thirty men huddled together – the perfect ... Read more

    $1.85 CAD

  • The Last Full Measure

    How Soldiers Die in Battle

    by Michael Stephenson ...
    In this brilliantly researched, deeply humane work of history, Michael Stephenson traces the paths that have led soldiers to their graves over the centuries, revealing a wealth of insight about the nature of combat, the differences among cultures, and the unchanging qualities of humanity itself.Behind every soldier’s death lies a story, a tale not just of the cold mathematics of the battlefield ... Read more

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  • The Liberation Trilogy Box Set

    An Army at Dawn, The Day of Battle, The Guns at Last Light

    by Rick Atkinson ...
    Series series The Liberation Trilogy
    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR HISTORYTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe definitive chronicle of the Allied triumph in Europe during World War II, Rick Atkinson's Liberation Trilogy, now together in one ebook bundle.Praise for An Army at Dawn: “A splendid book... The emphasis throughout is on the human drama of men at war.” —The Washington Post Book World</... ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • 1942

    The Year That Tried Men's Souls

    by Winston Groom ...
    America's first year in World War II, chronicled in this "page-turner" by the Pulitzer Prize–nominated author of Forrest Gump and The Generals ( Publishers Weekly).On December 7, 1941, an unexpected attack on American territory pulled an unprepared country into a terrifying new brand of warfare. To the generation of Americans who lived through it, the Second World War was the defining event of the ... Read more

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  • George S. Patton

    by Steven J. Zaloga ...
    Series Book 3 - Command
    George S. Patton Jr. was the iconic American field commander of World War II, and widely regarded as the US Army's finest practitioner of mechanized warfare.This title examines Patton's colorful life and leadership in three wars, with a concentration on his command in World War II. Despite his ability, Patton was thoroughly reviled by most GIs, partly due to his insistence on traditional military ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Generals

    Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, and the Winning of World War II

    by Winston Groom ...
    Celebrated historian Winston Groom tells the uniquely American tales of George Patton, Douglas MacArthur, and George Marshall, from World War I to World War II. These three remarkable men-of-arms who rose from the gruesome hell of the First World War to become the finest generals of their generation during World War II redefined America's ideas of military leadership and brought forth a new ... Read more

    $15.18 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Longest Year

    America at War and at Home in 1944

    by Victor Brooks ...
    The D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe, launched on June 6, 1944, is widely referred to as the longest day of World War Two. Historian Victor Brooks argues that 1944 was, in effect, the longest year” for Americans of that era, both in terms of United States casualties and in deciding the outcome of war itself.Brooks also argues that only the particular war events of 1944 could have produced ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Soldiers

    A Global History of the Fighting Man, 1800–1945

    by John A Haymond ...
    A global study of how soldiers lived, worked, and fought, and how many died, spanning from the Napoleonic War to World War II.No matter the war, no matter the army, no matter the nationality, common threads run through the experiences of men at war. Soldiers highlights these shared experiences across 150 years of warfare, from the Napoleonic Wars through World War II and everything in between, ... Read more

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