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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781517396862Author Franco David MacriFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

In 1898, Spanish spies based in Montreal, Halifax, and Victoria monitored the United States war effort against their homeland, while U.S. counter-intelligence officials watched the Spaniards. Neither the Americans nor the Spaniards sought Canadian...

A revised and greatly expanded edition of this important and long out of print reference book on Upper Canada to 1841. Similar in format to A Handbook of British Chronology, this work is a listing of all legislative councilors, and assemblymen, all...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781530767892Author James WeberFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

One of only fifty infantry battalions to see action with the Canadian Expeditionary Force during World War I, the 58th nevertheless had no official history. Second to None tells the story of this important, yet forgotten, battalion. The soldiers who...

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Published by the Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies This volume presents the original text of a groundbreaking study on professional education for the Canadian officer corps. The Report of the Officer Development Board, from...

This book builds on the success of The Canadian Battlefields in Northwest Europe, 1944--45 by adding a new chapter dealing with the Canadian battles in Belgium during the First World War. In addition to bringing to life the Victory Campaign of the Second...

This book examines the Canadian battles in Northern France during the First and Second World Wars. The Great War battlefields of the Somme, Beaumont-Hamel, Vimy and Arras, and the last Hundred Days campaign are examined in great detail with many...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039166196Author John Charles CorriganFormat HardbackPage Count 222Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 572g

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This is a collection of personal reminiscences and first-hand recollections of diplomatic service in war-torn Indochina beginning in the late 1950s with the International Supervisory Commission and concluding with the last days of that terrible and...

Originally published in 2002, Canada's Army quickly became the definitive history of the Canadian military. In the twenty intervening years, we have seen major changes to how Canadians think about their military, and in the ways Canadians fight, train,...

Self-doubt so plagued him that he suffered a nervous breakdown even before fighting his first combat action. But, by the end of the Second World War, Bert Hoffmeister had exorcised his anxieties, risen from Captain to Major-General, and won more awards...

Charles Henry Tweddell (1869-1921) was one of several thousand Canadian soldiers who fought with British forces in the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902). A methodical diarist, Tweddell recounts his year of service from the time he left Quebec City until...

Pathway to the Stars takes readers on a remarkable journey spanning one hundred years of the Royal Canadian Air Force. This beautifully illustrated book shares the rich history of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) on its 100th anniversary. Produced...

Originally published in 2002, Canada's Army quickly became the definitive history of the Canadian military. In the twenty intervening years, we have seen major changes to how Canadians think about their military, and in the ways Canadians fight, train,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551647579Author Yves EnglerFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Black Rose BooksPublisher Black Rose BooksWeight(grams) 726g

This extensively annotated wartime diary illuminates the military service of Leslie Howard Miller (1889–1979), a Canadian soldier who served in the First World War. Miller joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) in 1914. In his off-duty hours, he...

This book offers a close-up look at the First World War as it was experienced by ordinary Canadian soldiers. It portrays the war experience of tens of thousands of young Canadians. Reading their accounts offers a no-holds-barred picture of fighting, life...

Drunken disorderliness. Cowardice in battle. Writing bad cheques. Vulgarity. Sexual indecency. Adultery. Following courts martial for such disgraceful behaviour, hundreds of Canadian officers lost their commissions during the First and Second World Wars...

Although many modern studies of technology and war focus on tanks and armour, soldiers from the Second World War onward have discovered that success depends on a combination of infantry, armour, and artillery to form combat teams. Canada's Mechanized...

This book will be of interest to scholars and graduate students of Canadian history and military history, particularly those engaged in questions of national and imperial identity and the experience of world wars.Book InformationISBN 9780774860413Author...

This book will be of interest to scholars and graduate students of Canadian history and military history, particularly those engaged in questions of national and imperial identity and the experience of world wars.Book InformationISBN 9780774860406Author...

This book will appeal to scholars and enthusiasts of Canadian military history, security studies, and Cold War studies.Book InformationISBN 9780774827034Author Andrew B. GodefroyFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint University of British Columbia...

This book will appeal to scholars and enthusiasts of Canadian military history, security studies, and Cold War studies.Book InformationISBN 9780774827027Author Andrew B. GodefroyFormat HardbackPage Count 292Imprint University of British Columbia...

A National Force is mandatory reading for students, scholars, and general readers who want a deeper understanding of the Canadian Army's role in national defence and international affairs.Book InformationISBN 9780774826396Author Peter KasurakFormat...

This book will appeal to a wide range of students and scholars interested in labour, women's, and Second World War history in Canada and the United States.Book InformationISBN 9780774823432Author Wendy CuthbertsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint...

This book will appeal to aviation enthusiasts, former and current military personnel, and students and scholars of military history and strategic studies.Book InformationISBN 9780774821490Author Randall T. WakelamFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint...

Renegades: Canadians in the Spanish Civil War, by veteran journalist Michael Petrou, tells the story of the 1,681 Canadians who, between 1936 and 1939, defied Canadian law to fight fascism in the Spanish Civil war. The war pitted a left leaning,...

In Verdun, English and French speakers lived side by side. Through their home-front activities as much as through enlistment, they proved themselves partners in the prosecution of Canada's war. Shared experiences and class similarities shaped responses...

In the middle of the most destructive conflict in human history, almost 40,000 Germans civilians and prisoners of war were detained in internment and work camps across Canada. Five internment camps were located on the southern shores of the St. Lawrence...

Hockey magnate Conn Smythe, Trudeau cabinet minister Gilles Lamontagne, and the composer and former conductor of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Sir Ernest MacMillan, share something other than their fame: they all have the dubious distinction of having...

Why do soldiers fight? What keeps them going? What compels them to face death when their long-time comrades have fallen around them? Strangers in Arms addresses these questions in a groundbreaking study of the behaviour, morale, and motivations of...