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  • The Allure of Battle

    A History of How Wars Have Been Won and Lost

    by Cathal Nolan ...
    History has tended to measure war's winners and losers in terms of its major engagements, battles in which the result was so clear-cut that they could be considered "decisive." Cannae, Konigsberg, Austerlitz, Midway, Agincourt-all resonate in the literature of war and in our imaginations as tide-turning. But these legendary battles may or may not have determined the final outcome of the wars in ... Read more

    $21.59 CAD

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  • Classic Military Treatises: Sun Tzus The Art of War, Machiavellis The Prince, and Clausewitzs On War (Illustrated Edition)

    by Sun Tzu, Niccolo Machiavelli & Carl von Clausewitz ...
    Military treatises have long fascinated readers, even those who are not professional military men, and people in other fields have long sought to apply the lessons learned in military treatises to other walks of life. Among the worlds military treatises, without question two of the most famous and influential are Sun Tzus The Art of War and Carl von Clausewitzs On War, written over 2,000 years ... Read more

    $5.48 CAD

  • Invasion

    From The Armada to Hitler (1588-1945)

    by Frank McLynn ...
    Most people know that Britain was invaded by the Romans, by the Vikings and by the Normans. Many will know about the Spanish Armada, launched by Philip II in 1588 to bring Protestant England to submission. But fewer people know that Philip launched a second armada in 1596 or that invasion plans were drawn up by the French in 1692, 1708, 1743, 1756, 1759, 1796 and 1801, and by the French together ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Alexander

    A History of the Origin and Growth of the Art Of War from the Earliest Times to the Battle of Ipsus, B.C. 301, With a Detailed Account of the Campaigns of the Great Macedonian

    by Theodore Ayrault Dodge ...
    A clazzic history of one of the world's greatest military commanders. At the age of 20, Alexander the Great inherited the near-bankrupt kingdom of Macedonia and its small but revolutionary army, built around an unbreakable infantry phalanx and a shock cavalry force. In just ten years, he led this army on a march of conquest across most of the known world: Greece, Asia Minor, the Near East, Egypt, ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

  • The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard

    by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ...
    An officer in Napoleon’s army, Brigadier Gerard is courageous, genuine, and steadfast in his loyalty to his emperor and general. Sometimes comical, sometimes heroic, sometimes endearing. The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard is a collection of wonderfully comical adventures that have resulted in Gerard being considered second only to Sherlock Holmes of Doyle’s creations. ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

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  • A Vision So Noble: John Boyd, the OODA Loop, and America's War on Terror

    by Daniel Ford ...
    John Boyd was arguably the greatest American military theorist since the sea power strategist Alfred Thayer Mahan at the turn of the 20th Century. Best known for his formulation of the OODA Loop as a model for competitive decision making, Colonel Boyd was also an original thinker in developing tactics for air-to-air combat, designing warplanes, and the fluid, mobile warfare known to the Germans as ... Read more

    $7.91 CAD

  • Union Infantryman vs Confederate Infantryman

    Eastern Theater 1861–65

    by Ron Field ...
    Series Book 2 - Combat
    Men from all over North America and beyond – whether regulars, volunteers, or draftees – found themselves fighting for their lives on a host of bloody battlefields during the Civil War.The enthusiastic but largely inexperienced soldiers serving on both sides had to adapt quickly to the appalling realities of warfare in the industrial age. Author Ron Field, an authority on the Civil War, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • A Glorious Army

    Robert E. Lee's Triumph, 1862-1863

    by Jeffry D. Wert ...
    From the time Robert E. Lee took command of the Army of Northern Virginia on June 1, 1862, until the Battle of Gettysburg thirteen months later, the Confederate army compiled a record of military achievement almost unparalleled in our nation’s history. How it happened—the relative contributions of Lee, his top command, opposing Union generals, and of course the rebel army itself—is the subject of ... Read more

    $22.50 CAD

  • Brazilian Expeditionary Force in World War II

    by Cesar Campiani Maximiano, Ricardo Bonalume Neto ...
    Series Book 465 - Men-at-Arms
    In the English-speaking world, it is generally unknown that a volunteer Brazilian Expeditionary Force (FEB) fought alongside the US Army in Italy from mid-1944 until the end of the war.This was in effect a light infantry division, consisting of three infantry regiments augmented with artillery and light armour. It was supported by a Brazilian Air Force contingent of a light reconnaissance squadron ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire

    From the First Century CE to the Third

    by Edward N. Luttwak ...
    A newly updated edition of this classic, hugely influential account of how the Romans defended their vast empire.At the height of its power, the Roman Empire encompassed the entire Mediterranean basin, extending much beyond it from Britain to Mesopotamia, from the Rhine to the Black Sea. Rome prospered for centuries while successfully resisting attack, fending off everything from overnight robbery ... Read more

    $36.29 CAD

  • Yangtze River Gunboats 1900–49

    by Angus Konstam ...
    Series Book 181 - New Vanguard
    From the end of the 19th century through the first half of the 20th, most Western powers maintained a naval presence in China.These gunboats protected traders and missionaries, safeguarded national interests, and patrolled Chinese rivers in search of pirates. It was a wild, lawless time in China as ruthless warlords fought numerous small wars to increase their power and influence.This book covers ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Taboo Genocide

    Holodomor 1933 & the Extermination of Ukraine

    by Kris Dietrich ...
    This is a story of war and peace. It may have been the greatest crime of the century after the Bolshevik coup and Russian Revolution and the murder of the Russian Romanov Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Tsarina Alexandra and their five young children: four Grand Duchesses Olga, Anastasia, Tatiana, Marie and the Tsarevich, Alexis. It is our story. And I want to share it with you now because it is your ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD