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  • The Stranger (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. An Absurdist Novel of Moral Alienation, Colonial Algeria, and a Murder Trial in an Indifferent Universe

    by Albert Camus, Maeve Westcroft ...
    Translated by Stuart Gilbert ...
    Albert Camus's The Stranger is a spare, unsettling masterpiece of twentieth-century fiction, following Meursault, an emotionally detached French Algerian whose mother's death, casual relationships, and senseless act of violence expose the fragile conventions by which society judges meaning and guilt. Written in lucid, restrained prose, the novel exemplifies Camus's philosophy of the absurd: the ... Read more

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  • Marine Corps Tank Battles in the Middle East

    by Oscar E. Gilbert ...
    In this "compelling read," the former Marine artilleryman examines modern tank strategies through true stories of battle in Iraq and Afghanistan ( Military Modelcraft International).In the aftermath of Vietnam a new generation of Marines was determined to wage a smarter kind of war. The tank, the very symbol of power and violence, would play a key role in a new concept of mobile warfare, not seen ... Read more

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  • THE HASKELL MEMOIRS. The Personal Narrative of a Confederate Officer

    by Col. John Cheves Haskell ...
    A vivid and excellent Confederate memoir from a highly decorated and respected artillery commander."John Cheves Haskell came out of a rich French, Scotch and Scotch-Irish heritage of the Santee river country of South Carolina. The grandson of Langdon Cheves, a prominent South Carolinian, John was brought up on "The Home Place" plantation in the Abbeville district. When the Civil War broke out, he ... Read more

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  • Marine Corps Tank Battles in Vietnam

    by Oscar E. Gilbert ...
    The author of Tanks in Hell tracks ten years of tank warfare in Vietnam, combining firsthand accounts from veterans with analysis of tactics and strategy.In 1965 the large, loud, and highly visible tanks of 3rd Platoon, B Company, 3rd Tank Battalion landed across a beach near Da Nang, drawing unwelcome attention to America's first, almost covert, commitment of ground troops in South Vietnam. As ... Read more

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  • The Marine Corps Tanks Collection

    by Oscar E. Gilbert ...
    "Together these books provide the definitive history of the USMC's tank forces . . . Very highly recommended" ( Military Modelcraft International).Marine Corps Tank Battles in Korea: A detailed and gripping account of the little-known Marine tank engagements during the Korean War, from the valiant defense at Pusan and the bitter battles of the Chosin Reservoir to the bloody stalemate along the ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tanks in Hell

    A Marine Corps Tank Company on Tarawa

    by Oscar E. Gilbert ...
    An extraordinary slice of untold WWII history: how unproven Marines driving untested Sherman tanks turned the tide against Japan in the Battle of Tarawa.In May 1943, a self-described "really young, green, ignorant lieutenant" assumed command of a new US Marine Corps company. His even younger Marines were learning to operate an untested weapon, the M4A2 "Sherman" medium tank. Just six months later, ... Read more

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  • A Guide to Soft Fruit Growing - The Strawberry

    by E. Gilbert ...
    This antiquarian book comprises a concise and accessible guide to growing strawberries, with information on planting, manuring, pests, and more. This book will be of considerable utility to novice fruit growers with an interest in growing strawberries, and it would make for a great addition to collections of allied literature. Although old, the information of contained in this guide is timeless, ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Marine Tank Battles In Pacific

    by Oscar E. Gilbert ...
    No previous book has been devoted to Marine Corps armor in World War II. Gilbert's gripping narrative combines exhaustive detail on Marine armor and combat with moving eyewitness accounts, never before published, of what it was actually like to be a Marine tanker in action in the Pacific. ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • True for the Cause of Liberty

    The Second Spartan Regiment in the American Revolution

    by Oscar E. Gilbert, Catherine R. Gilbert ...
    "Persuasively tells the savage partisan war in the Carolina backcountry . . . [during] the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution" ( Military Review ).Following their defeat at Saratoga in New York in 1777, the British decided to implement a southern strategy against the American insurgents, a plan to "roll up" the rebellious colonies from Georgia through the Carolinas to Virginia. Untrained ... Read more

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  • Anton Chekhov: The Collected Novellas and Short Stories in Multiple Translations (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Novellas and stories of Russian realism and modernism, in multiple translations

    by Anton Chekhov, Keaton Briarwell5 ...
    Translated by Julius West, Julian Hawthorne, Marian Fell, Herman Bernstein, Robert Edward Crozier Long, Thomas Seltzer, Constance Garnett, C.E. Bechhofer Roberts, S.S. Koteliansky0, Gilbert Cannan1, J. M. Murry2, B. Roland Lewis3 ...
    Anton Chekhov: The Collected Novellas and Short Stories in Multiple Translations gathers the master's compressed dramas of provincial longing, moral hesitation, failed love, illness, vanity, and fleeting illumination. Across pieces such as his clinical sketches, comic miniatures, and mature stories of spiritual unease, Chekhov refines a prose of radical restraint: plot loosens, atmosphere deepens, ... Read more

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  • Tanks

    A Century of Tank Warfare

    by Oscar E. Gilbert, Romain V. Cansière ...
    Series series Casemate Short History
    "For all the history buffs on warfare of the last century, Tanks is a perfect choice . . . packed with fascinating information" ( San Francisco Book Review ).This Casemate Short History—by the authors of Tanks in Hell: A Marine Corps Tank Company on Tarawa—provides an informative and entertaining introduction to this iconic weapon of the last hundred years.Tanks first ventured in... ... Read more

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  • ILLIAD & ODYSSEY (Including the Mythology of Ancient Greece) (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Complete Edition with Introduction by Gilbert Murray

    by Gilbert Murray, Homer, Holden Glenwick ...
    Translated by Samuel Butler ...
    ILLIAD & ODYSSEY (Including the Mythology of Ancient Greece) brings together the foundational epics of the Greek literary imagination with the mythic framework that gives them enduring resonance. Across martial grandeur, domestic longing, divine intrigue, heroic wrath, wandering, recognition, and return, the volume presents a rich spectrum of narrative modes: battlefield epic, oral formulaic ... Read more

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