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A battlefield guide to the capture of Vimy Ridge by the Canadian Corps in April 1917. Includes a history of…
the battle, biographies of soliders, and information on the French town of Arras. 1996.The Canadians on the Somme, September to November, 1916: a social history and battlefield tour (For King & Empire. #2.)
Par N. M Christie, S Hickman. 1996
A battlefield guide to the Battle of the Somme, July to November 1916, one of the most horrific battles of…
World War I. Includes a history of the battle, biographies of soldiers, and information on the French town of Arras. 1996.The Canadians in the second battle of Ypres, April 22 to 26, 1915: a social history and battlefield tour (For King & Empire. #1.)
Par N. M Christie, S Hickman. 1996
A battlefield guide to the Second Battle of Ypres in April 1915. Includes a history of the battle, biographies of…
soldiers, and information on the Belgian town of Ypres, now known as Ieper. 1915.The Cannibal Queen: an aerial odyssey across America
Par Stephen Coonts. 1992
In June 1991, Coonts and his son David set out on the first leg of a journey in a 1942…
Stearman open-cockpit biplane. The trip will eventually take Coonts into each of the forty-eight continental United States. As he traverses the country, Coonts portrays life in small-town America as well as in big towns, and paints a picture of scorching deserts, dismal swamps, and soaring mountains. c1992.The campaigns of Napoleon
Par David Chandler. 1993
This volume covers every battle and campaign that Napoleon personally ever conducted. The author has made it possible to view…
the whole of Napoleon's military career and to assess the characteristics which brought him years of victory and ultimate defeat. 1993. If you request this book on CD it will be on 2 or more CDs. You must play the first CD to the end before playing the next CD.The bombing war: Europe 1939-1945
Par R. J Overy. 2013
The ultimate history of the Blitz and bombing in the Second World War, from Wolfson Prize-winning historian and author Richard…
Overy. The use of massive fleets of bombers to kill and terrorize civilians was an aspect of the Second World War which continues to challenge the idea that the Allies specifically fought a 'moral' war. For Britain, bombing became perhaps its principal contribution to the fighting as, night after night, exceptionally brave men flew over occupied Europe destroying its cities. "The Bombing War" is the first book to examine not just the most well-known parts of the campaign, but the significance of bombing on many other fronts - the German use of bombers on the Eastern Front for example (as well as much newly discovered material on the more familiar 'Blitz' on Britain), or the Allied campaigns against Italian cities. 2013.The book of revenge: a blues for Yugoslavia
Par Dragan Todorović. 2006
Serb Dragan Todorovic goes to Belgrade as the editor of a cultural magazine, but his constant clashes with the system…
end in his being drafted into the army. Dragan survives his tour of duty, but his return to Belgrade is unsettling - everything is changing, friendships are collapsing, conversations are guarded, and bit by bit, the country he knows and loves is being torn apart. Some strong language. 2006.Twenty-three-year old Cleo Koff, a forensic anthropologist, was one of sixteen scientists chosen to go to Rwanda in 1996 to…
find evidence of genocide and crimes against humanity. Her job was to discover who the victims were and how they had been killed. Koff also describes similar missions to Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo. Some violence. 2004.The boys of Pointe du Hoc: Ronald Reagan, D-Day, and the U.S. Army 2nd Ranger Battalion
Par Douglas Brinkley, Ronald Reagan. 2005
The author contends that when President Reagan honoured the fortieth anniversary of D-Day - the Normandy invasion of Europe -…
on June 6, 1984, he energized the nation and inspired a "New Patriotism." Recalls the way army Rangers scaled the French cliffs to defeat the Nazis and discusses Reagan's American legacy. 2005.The Black Sheep: the definitive account of Marine Fighting Squadron 214 in World War II
Par Bruce Gamble. 1998
Gamble recounts actual events behind the legends of World War II fighters in marine squadron 214. Describes exaggerations among the…
images portrayed in a popular television series and even in "Pappy" Boyington's autobiography. Presents a roster of pilots and a chronology of VMF-214 operations. c1998.The big break: the greatest American WWII POW escape story never told
Par Stephen Dando-Collins. 2017
Schubin, Poland, January, 1945. With the Red Army advancing closer every day, POW Camp commandant Colonel Fritz Schneider received orders…
from Berlin to march his American prisoners west. Game on! Over the next few days, 250 US Army officers would succeed in escaping east to link up with the Russians--although they would prove almost as dangerous as the Nazis--only to be ordered once they arrived back in the United States not to talk about their adventures. Within months, General Patton would launch a bloody bid to rescue the remaining Schubin Americans. This previously untold story follows POWs including General Eisenhower's personal aide, General Patton's son-in-law, and Ernest Hemingway's eldest son as they struggled to be free. 2017.The black battalion: 1916-1920 : Canada's best kept military secret
Par Calvin W Ruck. 1987
Since the American War of Independence, black soldiers had served in both the British and Canadian armies, and fought in…
British wars throughout the nineteenth century. At the outbreak of World War I, however, most black Canadian volunteers were rejected on the basis of their skin colour. Finally, in 1916, the first and only Black battalion in Canadian military history was authorized. The No. 2 Construction Battalion, CEF, consisted of approximately 600 soldiers, and was commended for its discipline and service at the end of the war. It was disbanded in 1920. c1987.The angel of Grozny: inside Chechnya
Par Åsne Seierstad, Nadia Christensen. 2009
The conflict in Chechnya was the first war that Asne Seierstad covered. Now ten years later, she returns to Chechnya…
and discovers that though the world's attention has moved on, the tragedy has continued, killing ten to 15 percent of the population and leaving a brutalized society with a particular toll on its children. 2009.The art of war
Par Tzu Sun. 2006
Twenty-five hundred years ago, Sun Tzu wrote this classic book of military strategy based on Chinese warfare and military thought.…
Since that time, all levels of the military have used the teaching on Sun Tzu for warfare, and others have adapted these teachings for use in politics, business and everyday life. 2006.The astonishing general: the life and legacy of Sir Isaac Brock
Par Wesley B Turner. 2011
A biography of Major General Sir Isaac Brock, describing his life, career, and legacy, particularly in the Canadas, and the…
context within which he lived. An unlikely hero of the War of 1812, he was admired by his American foes almost as much as by his own people. Even more striking was how a British general whose military role in that two-and-a-half-year war lasted less than five months became its best known hero, and one revered far and wide. 2011.The battle for Hell's Island: how a small band of carrier dive-bombers helped save Guadalcanal
Par Stephen L Moore. 2015
Moore reveals how command of the World War II South Pacific, and the outcome of the Pacific War, depended on…
control of a single dirt airstrip--and the small group of battle-weary aviators sent to protect it with their lives. 2015.The Battle of Gettysburg
Par Franklin Aretas Haskell. 1982
On the last day of the battle, Lt. Frank Haskell found himself right at the centre of the Union fire…
as Pickett charged. While his memory was still fresh, he wrote this book. 1982, c1863.The battle for the Falklands
Par Max Hastings, Simon Jenkins. 1983
Max Hastings was with the war from the sailing of the task force to the surrender of Port Stanley; Simon…
Jenkins followed the political and diplomatic twists in London and Washington. Together they give a comprehensive account of this "War that should not have happened". 1983.The Appalachian Trail reader
Par David Emblidge. 1996
A collection of travel diaries and registers, historical accounts, and other writings that portray the 2,140-mile recreational footpath running from…
Georgia to Maine. Traces the wilderness trail northward, depicting its history, geology, scenery, wildlife, and lore. 1996.The Atlantic campaign: World War II's great struggle at sea
Par Dan Van der Vat. 1988
The battle between Germany and the Allies for control of the Atlantic sea lanes was one that could have decided…
the outcome of the Second World War. Here the strategies of both sides and the maneuvers taken by them to ensure success both on land and on sea, are detailed.