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Unsung Heroes of the Royal Canadian Navy: Incredible Tales of Courage and Daring During World War II
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At the outbreak of World War II, the Royal Canadian Navy consisted of just 13 warships and concerning 3000 permanent and reserve members. By the war's end, however, it had grown into the third largest navy in the world, together with 365 warships and extra than 100,000 personnel. The men and women of the Royal Canadian Navy came from all corners of Canada to ...

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Categories General   Canadian   Military & Spies   Naval   All 4-for-3 Deals   Territories   20th Century   Canada   Paperback   4-for-3 Books   Printed Books  
A Perfect Hell: The True Story of the Black Devils, the Forefathers of the Special Forces
DescriptionIt’s 1942 and Hitler’s armies stand astride Europe like a colossus. Germany is winning on each front. This is the story of how one of the world’s first commando units, put mutually for the invasion of Norway, helped turn the tide in Italy.


1942. When the British generals recommend an audacious plan to parachute a small elite ...
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Categories General   All 4-for-3 Deals   20th Century   Canada   Europe   Military Science   Mass Market   4-for-3 Books   Printed Books  
Curse of the Narrows: The Halifax Disaster of 1917
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Before Hiroshima, there was Halifax. In 1917 the busy Canadian port was crowded together with ships leaving for war-torn Europe. On December 6, two of them, the Mont Blanc and the Imo, collided in the hard-to-find the way Narrows of the harbor. Inside minutes, the Mont Blanc, ablaze, grounded against the city’s docks. The explosion this followed would ...
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ManufacturerWalker & Company
Categories 20th Century   Canada   World War I   General   Paperback   Printed Books  
Crimes and Mercies: The Fate of German Civilians under Allied Occupation, 1944-1950
DescriptionExtra than nine million Germans died as a outcome of deliberate Allied starvation and expulsion policies afterwards the Second World War - one quarter of the country was annexed, and concerning fifteen million people expelled in the largest act of ethnic cleansing the world has ever known. Western governments continue to conceal and deny these deaths. At the ...
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Categories Europe   Military   General AAS   20th Century   General   Canada   Prisoners of War   Paperback   Printed Books  
Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau: 1968-2000
DescriptionThis magnificent second volume, written together with special access to Trudeau’s private papers and letters, completes what the Globe and Mail called “the much illuminating Trudeau portrait yet written” — sweeping us from sixties’ Trudeaumania to his final days when he debated his faith.

His life is one of Canada’s much engrossing stories. ...
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ManufacturerKnopf Canada
Categories Canadian   General   Political   Presidents & Heads of State   Trudeau, Pierre   20th Century   Political History   Hardcover   Printed Books  
An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Military Uniforms of the 19th Century: An Expert Guide to the American Civil War, the Boer War, the Wars of German and Italian ... Colonial Wars (Illustrated Encyclopaedia of)
DescriptionThe Crimean War is sometimes considered to be the first modern conflict and introduced technical changes which affected the future course of warfare.
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ManufacturerLorenz Books
Categories 20th Century   General   Reference   Canada   Uniforms   19th Century   Directories   History   Military   Hardcover   Printed Books  
1812: War with America
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Pay attention to a short interview together with Jon Latimer
Host: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & Crane

In the first complete history of the War of 1812 written from a British perspective, Jon Latimer proposes an authoritative and compelling account this places the conflict in its strategic context inside the Napoleonic wars. The British ...

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ManufacturerBelknap Press of Harvard University Press
Categories 20th Century   Antebellum   General   Canada   19th Century   Paperback   Printed Books  
A Rifleman Went to War
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Categories 20th Century   Canada   General   Hardcover   Printed Books  
U.S. Military History For Dummies
DescriptionU.S. Military History For Dummies examines significant battles, tactics, strategies, weapons, technology, and leadership on land, sea, and air since the French-Indian War in 1755, where George Washington was first battle-tested, to the present day war in Iraq. The book uniquely focuses on how developments in every of these areas influenced how wars ...
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Categories Military   General AAS   United States Civil War   Washington, George   20th Century   General   Spain   Strategy   Paperback   Printed Books   Illustrated  
Pandora's Locks: The Opening of the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway
DescriptionThe St. Lawrence Seaway was considered one of the world's greatest engineering achievements when it opened in 1959. The $1 billion project - a series of locks, canals, and dams this tamed the ferocious St. Lawrence River - opened the Excellent Lakes to the global shipping industry. Linking ports on lakes Enhanced, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario to ...
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ManufacturerMichigan State Univ Pr
Categories General AAS   United States   Ecology   Environmental Studies   20th Century   1945 - Present   General   Michigan   History   Hydrology   Environmental Science   Hardcover   Printed Books  
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