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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...

Reluctant Warriors will be of interest to scholars, students, and readers interested in the First World War in general, and conscription in particular.Book InformationISBN 9780774835985Author Patrick DennisFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint University...

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...

Commander A.F.C. Layard, RN, wrote almost daily in his diary, in bold, neat script, from the time he entered the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1913 until his retirement in 1947. The pivotal 1943-45 years of this edited volume offer an extraordinarily full and...

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...

Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Turner (1871-1961) was a capable but controversial Canadian general who played a critical role in the development of the Canadian Corps up to 1917 and contributed significantly to its success thereafter. Despite his many...

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...

"Despite Canada's claim to be a gender equitable nation, militarism continues to function in ways that protect inequality." -from the Introduction Little has been done to examine, critique, and challenge the ways ingrained societal ideas of...

The battle of Vimy Ridge in April 1917 saw Canadian troops storm a 14-kilometre long escarpment that was believed to be impregnable. This was the first time in Canada's history that a corps-sized formation fought together as a unit under its own...

In December 1915, as the First World War wore on, Acadian leaders meeting in New Brunswick deplored how soldiers from their communities were “lost in the crowd” of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. They successfully lobbied the federal government for the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385664677Author Christie BlatchfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 397g

General Bernard Law Montgomery, affectionately known as "Monty," exerted an influence on the Canadian Army more lasting than that of any other Second World War commander. In 1942 he assumed responsibility for the exercise and training of Canadian...

Soldiers found guilty of desertion or cowardice during the Great War faced death by firing squad. Novels, histories, movies, and television series often depict courts martial as brutal and inflexible, and social memories of this system of frontline...

Bringing together leading researchers on Canadian air power, On the Wings of War and Peace captures the history of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) during the first decades of the Cold War – a period which marked the zenith of air force...

Since the first atomic weapon was detonated in 1945, Canadians have debated not only the role of nuclear power in their uranium-rich land but also their country’s role in a nuclear world. Should Canada belong to international alliances that depend on the...

Based on extensive research into the writings of Canadian citizen soldiers in peacetime and in war, Militia Myths will be of interest to anyone who has ever looked at a cenotaph and wondered why so many young men answered the call to arms in 1914-18.Book...

The most comprehensive history of Canadian military intelligence and its influence on key military operations Canadian intelligence has become increasingly central to the operations of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF). Canadian Military Intelligence:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894864350Author Giancarlo GiorgiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Folklore PublishingPublisher Folklore PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550026870Author James GoodwinFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Dundurn Group LtdPublisher Dundurn Group LtdWeight(grams) 567g

This book chronicles the three very different sieges of Quebec and sheds new light on these pivotal eighteenth-century conflicts. This book is being published to mark the 250th anniversary of the siege of Quebec. But unlike other books on this celebrated...

In this comprehensive study of Canada's reserve army, the Militia, the author focuses on the regiment as both a civic and a triilitary institution that has declined in status and visibility since the country's armed services were unified in 1967. .Book...

This book will appeal to anyone interested in military history, labour history, and the history of Canada and Russia.Book InformationISBN 9780774818025Author Benjamin IsittFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint University of British Columbia...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781554887286Author George H. CassarFormat HardbackPage Count 424Imprint Dundurn Group LtdPublisher Dundurn Group LtdWeight(grams) 767gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

In the first major study of the Royal Canadian Navy's contribution to foreign policy, Nicholas Tracy takes a comprehensive look at the paradox that Canada faces in participating in a system of collective defence as a means of avoiding subordination to...

In September 1939, the Canadian army, a tiny force of around 55,000 regulars and reservists, began a remarkable expansion. Building the Army's Backbone tells the story of how senior leadership created a corps of non-commissioned officers (NCOs) that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385258197Author Pierre BertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 697g

With compelling insight, Canada 1919 examines the concerns of Canadians in the year following the Great War: the treatment of veterans, including nurses and Indigenous soldiers; the rising farm lobby; the role of labour; the place of children; the...

In this comprehensive study of Canada's reserve army, the Militia, Professor Willett focuses on the regiment as both a civic and a military institution that has declined in status and visibility since the country's armed services were unified in 1967...

In 1942, RAF flight controller Robert Wyse became a Japanese prisoner of war on the island of Java in Indonesia. Starved, sick, beaten, and worked to near-death, he wasted away until he weighed only seventy pounds, his life hanging in tenuous balance...

This book investigates how the village of Enniskillen in New Brunswick became the testing ground for some of the deadliest toxins in the world. Between the 1950s and the 1970s, American and Canadian military personnel sprayed more than one million litres...

The untold story of Point Frederick, where early nineteenth-century Canadians built warships that stopped invasion and brought peace.Warriors and Warships brings to life a much neglected part of Canada’s military history, covering the warships and the...

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...

In December 1941, Japan attacked multiple targets in the Far East and the Pacific, including Canadian battalions stationed in Hong Kong. The disaster suggested that the Allies were totally unprepared for war. This book dispels that assumption by offering...

What was it like to be a soldier's wife in Canada during the First World War? More than 80,000 Canadian women were married to men who left home to fight in the war, and its effects on their lives were transformative and often traumatic. Yet the everyday...