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  • Letters Of A Canadian Stretcher Bearer

    by Anon - R.A.L. ...
    The witty, bitter and caustic memoirs of an anonymous Canadian stretcher-bearer who served during some of the fiercest fighting on the Western Front in 1916 and 1917 before being invalided back to his native land."FOR military reasons, it has been judged wiser to withhold the full name of the Canadian Stretcher Bearer until the close of the war."However, it may interest his readers to know that he ... Read more

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  • In the Ypres Salient, The Story of a Fortnight's Canadian Fighting, June 2-16 1916 [Illustrated Edition]

    by Beckles Willson ...
    Every evening since 1928, the Last Post is sounded in the town of Ypres in West Flanders, and the local fire brigade turn toward the Menin Gate as the local traffic stops. This Mark of respect to the Allied soldiers who fell defending the Ypres salient has been a tradition in the town for almost one hundred years. Tens of thousands of British, French, Canadian, Australian, Indian, New Zealand, ... Read more

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  • The Canadian Army At War - Canada's Battle In Normandy

    The Canadian Army's Share in the Operations, 6 June - 1 September 1944 [Illustrated Edition]

    by Colonel C.P. Stacey O.B.E. ...
    Contains 5 maps and 41 Illustrations."The decisive battle in North-West France in the summer of 1944 was fought and won by gallant men from many nations. Britain, the United States, and Canada contributed the largest components; but Poland provided a fine division, the French Forces of the Interior and subsequently French regular forces played essential roles, and Belgium, the Netherlands and ... Read more

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  • Mysteries, Legends and Myths of the First World War

    Canadian soldiers in the trenches and in the air

    by Cynthia J. Faryon ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    This book offers a fresh, close-up look at the First World War as it was experienced by ordinary Canadian soldiers. This is the war as it was experienced by the tens of thousands of young Canadians. Reading their accounts offers a no-holds-barred picture of fighting, life in the trenches, the human cost in lives lost, and the physical and emotional aftermath for survivors. ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Valour at Vimy Ridge

    The Great Canadian Victory of World War I

    by Tom Douglas ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    A defining moment in Canadian military history. A much-needed Allied victory. A show of valour and heroism. The battle of Vimy Ridge in April 1917 saw Canadian troops storm a strategic 14-kilometre long escarpment that was believed to be impregnable. This was the first time in the nation's history that a corps-sized formation fought together as a unit under its own meticulous planning. Canadian ... Read more

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  • The Battle of the Somme

    The First and Second Phase

    by John Buchan ...
    On the 1st July, 1916, 20,000 British troops lost their lives during the first day of the Somme.Artillery had barraged the German lines for seven days, but the Germans were heavily dug in and many shells failed to explode due to the wet ground.The bombardment signalled to the Germans that the British were coming, so once it had finished they emerged from their fortifications ready to face, and ... Read more

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  • Arnhem 1944

    The Human Tragedy of the Bridge Too Far

    by Dilip Sarkar ...
    The airborne battle for the bridges across the Rhine at Arnhem ranks amongst the Second World Wars most famous actions inspiring innumerable books and the star-studded 1977 movie. This book, however, is unique: deeply moved, the author provides a fresh narrative and approach concentrating on the tragic stories of individual casualties.These men were killed at different junctures in the fighting, ... Read more

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  • A Rifleman Goes To War [Illustrated Edition]

    by Captain Herbert W. McBride ...
    Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack – 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photosThe classic account of sniping on the Western Front."Herbert Wesley McBride was a Captain in the Twenty-first Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, during the First World War. He was a sniper and commander of a machine gun unit known as the "Emma Gees." He was also the author of two books on the war: "A ... Read more

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  • The Falaise Pocket. World War II Allied Encirclement Of The German Armies.

    Failure Or Success Of The Allied Leadership And Planning?

    by Major Braden DeLauder ...
    By Aug. 1944, the Allies had broken out of the Normandy beachhead and were rapidly exploiting a breakthrough in the German lines. In early Aug., Hitler ordered a heavy single pronged attack to the west toward Avranches to cut off the US forces to the south. With the 'Ultra' intelligence, Bradley recognized this as an opportunity to encircle the German Army in France. By turning Patton's Third Army ... Read more

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  • The Best Little Army In The World

    by J. L. Granatstein ...
    This is the story of the Canadian First Army that fought its way from Juno Beach at D-Day in June, 1944, through Normandy, into the Netherlands to liberate that country, to the terrible battles in the Scheldt area, and finally into Germany in 1945. This is also the story of how Canada, which had no army to speak of in 1939, raised a citizen army and turned it into one of the very best fighting ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • 1917: Vimy Ridge to Ypres

    Key Dates and Events from the Fourth Year of the First World War

    by Saul David Ltd, Saul David ...
    This special ebook has been created by historian Saul David from his acclaimed work 100 Days to Victory: How the Great War was Fought and Won, which was described by the Mail on Sunday as 'Inspired' and by Charles Spencer as 'A work of great originality and insight'. Through key dates from the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II, to the capture of Jerusalem, Saul David's gripping narrative is an ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Restraint In Urban Warfare: The Canadian Attack On Groningen, Netherlands, 13-16 April 1945

    by Major Jeffrey D. Noll U.S. Army ...
    Urban terrain presents significant tactical challenges to attacking armies, limiting weapons effects and mobility while disrupting formations and command and control. The human terrain in cities creates a tactical dilemma, placing large civilian populations in close proximity to the fighting. The issue of restraint in urban warfare has been described as a modern phenomenon, with urban warfare in ... Read more

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