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The moment in the sun for special operations sometimes appears to have passed, seemingly eclipsed by preparations for potential conflict under the guise of ‘great power’ competition, combined with failure in Afghanistan. Yet the war in Ukraine serves as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771623834Author Mark ZuehlkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 538Imprint Douglas and McIntyre (2013) Ltd.Publisher Douglas and McIntyre (2013) Ltd.Weight(grams)...

The Military Museums in Calgary, Alberta is Western Canada's only tri-service museum and military education centre. Containing the regimental museums of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI), Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians),...

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 9781553657538Author James R. DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Douglas & McIntyre Publishing GroupPublisher Douglas & McIntyre Publishing...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780969154822Author S D CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Kay Cee PublicationsPublisher Kay Cee PublicationsWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm)...

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...

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 deeds, 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...

Canadians often characterize their military history as a march toward nationhood, but in the first eighty years of Confederation they were fighting for the British Empire.From 1867 to 1947, war or threat of war forced Canadians to define and redefine...

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...

The cancellation of the CF-105 Arrow in 1959 holds such a grip on the imagination of Canadians that earlier developments in defence procurement remain in the shadows.Randall Wakelam corrects this oversight - and offers fresh insight into the AVRO saga...

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...

The first comparative study of Canadian and Australian military policy and activity.Book InformationISBN 9780773530355Author John C. BlaxlandFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint McGill-Queen's University PressPublisher McGill-Queen's University...

During the "Hundred Days" campaign of the First World War, over 30 percent of conscripts who served in the Canadian Corps became casualties. Yet, they were generally considered slackers for not having volunteered to fight. Reluctant Warriors is the first...

The First World War's appalling death toll and the need for a sense of equality of sacrifice on the home front led to Canada's first experience of overseas conscription. While historians have focused on resistance to enforced military service in Quebec,...

A Small Price to Pay is essential reading for students and scholars of Canadian history, military and home front studies, and consumer culture.Book InformationISBN 9780774823630Author Graham BroadFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint University of British...

This history of a war imagined will find an eager readership among social and military historians, cultural studies scholars, and anyone with an interest in wartime Canada.Book InformationISBN 9780774810135Author Robert RutherdaleFormat HardbackPage...

The first comprehensive study of naval operations involving NorthAmerican squadrons in Nova Scotia waters, Frigates and Foremasts offersa masterful analysis of the motives behind the deployment of Royal Navyvessels between 1745 and 1815, and the navy's...

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 9780774823425Author Wendy CuthbertsonFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint...

This book will appeal to students, scholars, and general readers interested in military history, Canadian history, and law.Book InformationISBN 9780774825672Author Teresa IacobelliFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint University of British Columbia...

This book will appeal to people interested in Arctic sovereignty and security issues, civil-military relations, Aboriginal-state relations, and the stewardship of remote regions.Book InformationISBN 9780774824538Author P. Whitney LackenbauerFormat...

In January 1944, Vice Admiral Percy Walker Nelles was fired from his position as head of the Royal Canadian Navy. Betrayed reveals the true story behind the dismissal: a divisive power struggle between two elite groups within the RCN pitted the navy's...

This book will appeal to students and scholars of Canadian military history, diplomatic history and foreign affairs, and Canadian-German relations.Book InformationISBN 9780774825634Author Isabel CampbellFormat HardbackPage Count 268Imprint University of...