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  • Chindit Affair

    A Memoir of the War in Burma

    by Frank Baines ...
    In March 1944, some 2,200 battle trained men of 111 Brigade flew from India into northern Burma to land on improvised airstrips cleared from the jungle, They were part of General Orde Wingates Chindit force sent to fight the Japanese deep behind their lines. Five months later, 111 Brigade was down to 118 fit men eight British officers, a score of British soldiers and 90 Gurkhas. One of those eight ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Public Relations

    by Paul Baines, John Egan, Frank Jefkins ...
    Public Relations: contemporary issues and techniques offers a definitive guide to public relations management. It provides comprehensive analysis and explanation of a full range of modern PR techniques, spanning both inhouse and agency practice.The text has involved fundamental restructuring and updating of existing material and the incorporation of the new techniques and strategies, for instance: ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD

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  • NTR: Nothing to Report

    by James Leasor ...
    "Superbly authentic atmosphere, taut narration" - The Observer"Mr. Leasor brings to 'Nothing to Report' a journalist's straightforwardness, and an on-the-spot sureness about how frightened men behave, that are both refreshing and effective." - SpectatorIn the early spring of 1944, when the British fortunes of war in the East were low, the Japanese invaded India. From General Headquarters, the word ... Read more

    $4.19 CAD

  • Me So Far

    Volume VII of The Bandy Papers

    by Donald Jack ...
    Series Book 7 - The Bandy Papers
    It is 1925 and First World War air ace Bartholomew Bandy has finally found a secure post-war job, as commander of the Maharajah of Jhamjarh's new air force. The only problem is that the British Raj is not so happy with him for setting up a rival air power inside British India, and he may need to actually earn his fabulous salary when a neighbouring princely state shows signs of preparing for war.. ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD

  • Winged Victory

    by V.M. Yeates ...
    Experience the chilling combat of World War I from inside an early biplane in this classic novel, by a pilot who lived through the war himself.France, 1914. The war on the land is taking to the skies . . .Pilot Tom Cundall is ready to take on the enemy in his trusty Camel fighter plane. But as he sees more and more planes shot down in flames, he begins to question the war, and what, or who, he is ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sagittarius Rising

    by Cecil Lewis ...
    ‘Classic . . . the definitive account of aerial combat – full of passion and poetry’ – Max Arthur, Independent ‘Magical evocation of the lonely battle fought in the clouds’ – The Daily Telegraph ‘This is a book everyone should read. It is the autobiography of an ace, and no common ace either. The boy had all the noble tastes and qualities, love of beauty, soaring imagination, a brilliant endowment ... Read more

    $6.29 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Waiting Land

    A Spell in Nepal

    by Dervla Murphy ...
    The Waiting Land is an exploration of Nepal by a feisty, generous-hearted young Irish woman in the spring of 1965. The third in a series of books tracing Dervla's involvement with the self-sufficient mountain cultures of the Himalayas, she is lured by the chance to work again with Tibetan refugees - this time a group of five hundred lodged in tents in the remote Pokhara valley. Once established in ... Read more

    $11.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Seed and the Sower

    by Sir Laurens Van Der Post ...
    What follows is the story of two British officers whose spirit the Japanese try to break. Yet out of all the violence and misery strange bonds are forged between prisoners - and their gaolers. In a battle for survival that becomes a battle of contrasting wills and philosophies as the intensity of the men's relationships develop. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Life on the Death Railway

    The Memoirs of a British POW

    by Stuart Young ...
    As a young man Stuart Young endured the horrors of the Japanese prisoner-of-war camps and survived. Later in life, in graphic detail, he recorded the experience the dreadful conditions, the brutal treatment, the sickness and starvation, the merciless routine of forced labour. Yet he also recorded the comradeship among the prisoners, their compassion and strength, and the pastimes and ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Scramble

    The Dramatic Story of a Young Fighter Pilot's Experiences During the Battle of Britain and the Siege of Malta

    by Tom Neil ...
    This is a fighter pilot’s memoir of four tumultuous years, 1938–1942, when he was first trained, then fought and survived in not one but two of the biggest aerial campaigns of the war, the Battle of Britain and the equally epic, but lesser known, Siege of Malta.When the Germans were blitzing their way across France in spring 1940, Pilot Officer Tom Neil had just received his first posting – to 249 ... Read more

    $21.69 CAD

  • Born of the Desert

    With the SAS in North Africa

    by Malcolm James ...
    An SAS medical officer's gripping memoir of his WWII service in North Africa.Born of the Desert is a classic account of the early years of the SAS. The Special Air Service was formed in 1941 and quickly earned a reputation for stealth, daring, and audacity in the Western Desert Campaign. This elite force utilized the endless expanse of the desert to carry out surprise attacks and hit and run raids ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Backs to the Wall

    A larrikin on the Western Front

    by GD Mitchell, Robert Macklin ...
    Originally published in 1937 (and long out of print), this is a gripping, first hand account of a young soldier's experiences in France and Belgium during the First World War.'*In that hour was born in me a fear that lasted throughout the whole winter. It was the dread of dying in the mud, going down in that stinking morass and though dead being conscious throughout the ages. Waves of fear at ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD