Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “david j bercuson”
Skip side bar filters

  • Our Finest Hour

    Canada Fights the Second World War

    by David Bercuson ...
    First published in 1995 as Maple Leaf Against the Axis, Our Finest Hour has been completely revised and updated, with new chapters that reflect the latest research about Canada's home front in the war and the formulation and execution of Canadian war strategy at the highest levels. Although Canada was not ready for war in 1939, the people of Canada and their armed forces eventually overcame major ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Fighting Canadians

    Our Regimental History from New France to Afghanistan

    by David Bercuson ...
    In The Fighting Canadians, David J. Bercuson tells Canadian history through the eyes, ears and colours of Canadian regiments. From the 17th century, when the “Good Regiment,” the Carignan-salières, fought the Mohawks at Courcelles, to the Newfoundland Regiment’s valiant but brutal stand at Beaumont-Hamel in the Battle of the Somme, from the Winnipeg Grenadiers’ engagement with the Japanese in the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Canada and the Birth of Israel

    A Study in Canadian Foreign Policy

    by David Bercuson ...
    Series series Heritage
    Canadian Zionists of the 1930s were anxious to involve their government in the Palestine question. The pressure they brought to bear was fuelled by a new urgency when British policy in Palestine denied entry to Jewish refugees from the Nazi terror. Today there is a widely held impression that the Canadian government responded quickly and sympathetically to that pressure. Jews and Arabs alike, each ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Deadly Seas

    The Duel Between The St.Croix And The U305 In The Battle Of The Atlantic

    by David Bercuson, Holger H. Herwig ...
    A brilliant work of naval history, Deadly Seas tells the dramatic story of the birth, life, and death of two wartime vessels, one Allied, the other Axis, and, through them, the larger story of the epic Battle of the Atlantic itself. ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Long Night of the Tankers

    Hitler's War Against Caribbean Oil

    by David J. Bercuson, Holger H. Herwig ...
    Series Book 4 - Beyond Boundaries: Canadian Defence and Strategic Studies
    Long Night of the Tankers presents a fresh account of a lesser-known but critical component of the Atlantic naval theatre during World War II. Using war diaries, after-action reports, and first-hand accounts, authors Bercuson and Herwig examine the story behind Operation Neuland, the German plan to interrupt vital oil supplies from reaching the United States and the United Kingdom by preventing ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Eastern and Western Perspectives

    Papers from the Joint Atlantic Canada/Western Canadian Studies Conference

    Edited by Phillip Buckner, David Bercuson ...
    Series series Heritage
    The Atlantic Canada and Western Canada Studies Conferences have focused attention in recent years on the culture and development of two widely separated regions which have been frequently ignored in studies of the Canadian nation. The Atlantic Canada Studies Conference, meeting in 1974 and 1976 at the University of New Brunswick, and the Western Canadian Studies Conference, meeting annually since ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Treasuring the Tradition

    The Story of the Military Museums

    by Jeff Keshen, David Bercuson ...
    The Military Museums in Calgary, Alberta is Western Canada's only tri-service museum and military education centre. Containing the regimental museums of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI), Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians), The King's Own Calgary Regiment, and the Calgary Highlanders along with the Naval, Army, and Air Force Museums of Alberta, The Military Museums ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The World in Canada

    Diaspora, Demography, and Domestic Politics

    by David Carment, David Bercuson ...
    In response to these questions, contributors trace changes in Canada's demographic make-up, explore the relationship between domestic politics and Canadian foreign policy across the fields of diplomacy, development, defense and security, and immigration, and determine the extent to which Quebec's sensibilities to international issues differ from those of the rest of the country. The World in ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Industry and humanity

    A study in the principles of industrial reconstruction

    by William King ...
    Series series Heritage
    Industry and Humanity was first published in 1918. In it William Lyon Mackenzie King, then a prominent public servant who had forged a respectable reputation among business leaders as an expert in labour affairs, discussed the process of national and industrial reconstruction then about to begin. The book reviewed several momentous crises in North American labour-management relations, revealed the ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Fight to the Finish

    Canadians in the Second World War, 1944-1945

    by Tim Cook ...
    Series Book 4 - Canadians Fighting
    **Winner of the 2016 Ottawa Book AwardThe magisterial second volume of Tim Cook's definitive account of Canadians fighting in the Second World War.**Historian Tim Cook displays his trademark storytelling ability in the second volume of his masterful account of Canadians in World War II. Cook combines an extraordinary grasp of military strategy with a deep empathy for the soldiers on the ground, at ... Read more

    Was $16.99 CAD Now $13.99 CAD

  • The Necessary War, Volume 1

    by Tim Cook ...
    Series Book 3 - Canadians Fighting
    Co-winner of the 2014-2015 Charles P. Stacey AwardTim Cook, Canada’s leading war historian, ventures deep into World War Two in this epic two-volume story of heroism and horror, of loss and longing, sacrifice and endurance.Written in Cook’s compelling narrative style, this book shows in impressive detail how soldiers, airmen, and sailors fought—the evolving tactics, weapons of war, logistics, and ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Fight for History

    75 Years of Forgetting, Remembering, and Remaking Canada's Second World War

    by Tim Cook ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE OTTAWA BOOK AWARDSA masterful telling of the way World War Two has been remembered, forgotten, and remade by Canada over seventy-five years.The Second World War shaped modern Canada. It led to the country's emergence as a middle power on the world stage; the rise of the welfare state; industrialization, urbanization, and population growth. After the war, Canada ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook