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  • Admiral Canaris

    How Hitler's Chief of Intelligence Betrayed the Nazis

    by David Alan Johnson ...
    Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, Adolf Hitler’s chief of military intelligence, accomplished something that neither President Franklin D. Roosevelt nor Prime Minister Winston Churchill could ever achieve – he saved the lives of hundreds Jewish refugees and other racial and political undesirables by rescuing them from Nazi Germany and other Nazi-occupied countries. Seen as a quiet and uninteresting career ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Lincoln's Road to War

    A Day-by-Day Account of the First 60 Days of Abraham Lincoln's Presidency

    by David Alan Johnson ...
    Follow Lincoln’s day-by-day path from peacemaker to war leader as the Union edges toward Civil War.The months after the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln, between March 4 and May 3, 1861, mark one of the most significant periods in American history. Antagonism between the North and South, which had been intensifying since Lincoln’s election as president in November 1860, only worsened when the ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Yanks in the RAF

    The Story of Maverick Pilots and American Volunteers Who Joined Britain's Fight in WWII

    by David Alan Johnson ...
    This is the story of American volunteer pilots who risked their lives in defense of Britain during the earliest days of World War II-more than a year before Pearl Harbor, whenthe United States first became embroiled in the global conflict. Based on interviews, diaries, personal documents, and research in British, American, and German archives, the author has created a colorful portrait of this ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Decided on the Battlefield

    Grant, Sherman, Lincoln and the Election of 1864

    by David Alan Johnson ...
    In the summer of 1864, the American Civil War had been dragging on for over three years with no end in sight. Things had not gone well for the Union, and the public blamed the president for the stalemate against the Confederacy and for the appalling numbers of killed and wounded. Lincoln was thoroughly convinced that without a favorable change in the trajectory of the war he would have no chance ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Battle of Wills

    Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, and the Last Year of the Civil War

    by David Alan Johnson ...
    Historians have long analyzed the battles and the military strategies that brought the American Civil War to an end. Going beyond tactics and troop maneuvers, this book concentrates on the characters of the two opposing generals--Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant--showing how their different temperaments ultimately determined the course of the war. As author David Alan Johnson explains, Grant's ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Union Revisited

    by David Alan Johnson ...
    Series series Images of America
    Union Township has changed dramatically since the 1950s. The town was still very rural in those days. O'Mara's Farm sold fresh fruit to local kids on their daily trek home from school; Headley's Cider Mill sold homemade cider that tasted like real apples and sausages that tasted like nothing that has ever been tasted before or since. Neighbors knew each other's name and waved hello from seats on ... Read more

    $17.91 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Last Weeks of Abraham Lincoln

    A Day-by-Day Account of His Personal, Political, and Military Challenges

    by David Alan Johnson ...
    This day-by-day account of Abraham Lincoln's last six weeks of life covers a period of extraordinary events, not only for the president himself but for the fate of the nation. From March 4 to April 15, 1865--a momentous time for the nation--Abraham Lincoln delivered his second inaugural address, supervised climatic battles leading up to the end of the Civil War, learned that Robert E. Lee had ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Responses to 7 October: Antisemitic Discourse

    by Anthony Julius, David Hirsh, Rosa Freedman, Howard Jacobson, Jeffrey Herf, Flora Cassen, Robin Douglas, Matthew Bolton, Alan Johnson, David Seymour, Jonas Hessenauer, Lukas Uwira, Torkel Brekke, Anna Zawadzka, Yaron Matras ...
    Narrated by Sarah Kants, Simon Schatzberger ...
    Series Audiobook 7 - Studies in Contemporary Antisemitism

    Unabridged

    5 hours 27 min

    One of three volumes responding to the 7 October attack, Antisemitic Discourse focuses on the ideology that motivated it and the antisemitism that shaped many responses to it.It examines the provenance of the Jew-hatred, from English history to Palestinian Islamism; from toxic 19th century ‘Jewish Question’ rhetoric to the perversion of the Trotskyist tradition that allowed parts of the left to ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unimagined Futures – ICT Opportunities and Challenges

    Edited by Leon Strous, Roger Johnson, David Alan Grier, Doron Swade ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This Festschrift, Unimagined Futures – ICT Opportunities and Challenges, is the first Festschrift in the IFIP AICT series. It examines key challenges facing the ICT community today. While addressing the contemporary challenges, the book provides the opportunity to look back to help understand the contemporary scene and identify appropriate future responses to them. Experts in different areas of ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Alone Together

    How Marriage in America Is Changing

    by Paul R. Amato, Alan Booth, David R. Johnson, Stacy J. Rogers ...
    Based on two studies of marital quality in America twenty years apart, Alone Together shows that while the divorce rate has leveled off, spouses are spending less time together. The authors argue that marriage is an adaptable institution, and in accommodating the changes that have occurred in society, it has become a less cohesive, yet less confining arrangement. ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Radical London in the 1950s

    by David Mathieson ...
    In September 1960, the central London district of St Pancras was convulsed by rioting. What had begun months before as a peaceful protest about the lack of decent housing spiralled into some of the worst street-fighting ever seen in the capital. The violence shook the nation. All Metropolitan police leave was cancelled, MPs demanded an emergency debate in the House of Commons and a horrified Home ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

    by William L. Shirer ...
    National Book Award Winner: The definitive account of Nazi Germany and "one of the most important works of history of our time" ( The New York Times).When the Third Reich fell, it fell swiftly. The Nazis had little time to destroy their memos, their letters, or their diaries. William L. Shirer's sweeping account of the Third Reich uses these unique sources, combined with his experience living in ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus