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  • Cross-Border Warriors

    Canadians in American Forces, Americans in Canadian Forces

    by Fred Gaffen ...
    For well of a hundred years, Canadians and Americans have crossed the border that separates their two countries to serve in one another's armed forces. The American Civil War, the two world wars, Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf War - Cross-Border Warriors presents anecdotes, letters, and diaries by or about individuals who left family and native land to engage in these far-away struggles. There was Emma ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Dundurn Korean War Library Bundle

    Fighting Words / Korea / Triumph at Kapyong / Deadlock in Korea / Cross-Border Warriors

    by Fred Gaffen, Dan Bjarnason, Ted Barris, Mark Bourrie, John Melady ...
    Series series
    This ebook bundle contains five books that chronicle Canada's participation in the conflict that gripped the Korean peninsula from 1950–53 and resulted in two very different nations that remain at odds today. This bloody and traumatic face-off between capitalist and communist ideologies highlighted the tensions of the Cold War that drew in nations from many parts of the world. Canadian soldiers ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Dundurn Vietnam War Library Bundle

    Guerrilla Nation / Indochina Now and Then / Cross-Border Warriors

    by Michael Maclear, George Fetherling, Fred Gaffen ...
    Series series
    The Vietnam War was a regional conflict that turned into an epic confrontation between ideologies, leaving deep scars on the psyches of nations that fought and long-lasting physical damage to Vietnam itself. The three books in this bundle cover different aspects of the war and the region, from Michael Maclear's personal memories as an embedded journalist in North Vietnam to George Fetherling's ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • Deadlock in Korea

    Canadians at War, 1950-1953

    by Ted Barris ...
    Between 1950 and 1953, nearly 30,000 Canadian volunteers joined the effort to contain communist incursions into South Korea and support the fledgling United Nations. All the services were there and all served with distinction. The Royal Canadian Navy led a daring rescue of troops from the port of Chinnampo in 1950; members of the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry won the highest US ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Triumph at Kapyong

    Canada’s Pivotal Battle in Korea

    by Dan Bjarnason ...
    Afghanistan is not Canada’s first war in Asia. We’ve been there before, a half century ago … in Korea. And it was a meat grinder, scarcely remembered now … a war in which on one hilltop, on one April night, freshly-minted Canadians soldiers made a desperate stand that prevented catastrophe. In all, twenty-five thousand Canadians fought in Korea. By the time the shooting stopped, more than five ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Legend

    The Incredible Story of Green Beret Sergeant Roy Benavidez's Heroic Mission to Rescue a Special Forces Team Caught Behind Enemy Lines

    by Eric Blehm ...
    The true story of the U.S. Army’s 240th Assault Helicopter Company and a Green Beret Staff Sergeant's heroic mission to rescue a Special Forces team trapped behind enemy lines during the Vietnam War, from New York Times bestselling author Eric Blehm.On May 2, 1968, a twelve-man Special Forces team covertly infiltrated a small clearing in the jungles of neutral Cambodia—where U.S. forces were ... Read more

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  • Dressed to Kill

    by Charlotte Madison ...
    My fingers close around the trigger. I pause for a split second to think about the bullets I am about to spray across the ground. After today, I'll no longer be the new girl.'Captain Charlotte Madison is blonde, beautiful and flies Apache helicopters for a living. She has completed two tours of duty in Afghanistan and is currently fighting on the frontline in her third. DRESSED TO KILL shows us ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Nazi Officer's Wife

    How One Jewish Woman Survived The Holocaust

    by Susan Dworkin, Edith Hahn Beer ...
    #1 New York Times BestsellerIn this gripping WWII historical nonfiction, Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into a ghetto and then into a slave labor camp. When she returned home months later, she knew she would become a hunted woman and went underground, a true story of survival by hiding in plain sight. With the help of a Christian friend, she emerged ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories

    by Agatha Christie ...
    "Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories" by Agatha Christie is a comprehensive collection featuring all the short stories that involve the famous Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot. This collection spans many years and showcases Poirot's unique detective skills across various intriguing cases. Here is a general overview of some of the stories that are typically included in such a complete ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • A Thousand Farewells

    A Reporter's Journey From Refugee Camp To The Arab Spring

    by Nahlah Ayed ...
    A Thousand Farewells is the heartfelt and personal chronicle of a journalist who has devoted her career to covering one of the world’s most volatile regions.In 1976, Nahlah Ayed’s family gave up a comfortable life in Winnipeg for the squalor of a Palestinian refugee camp in Amman, Jordan. The transition was jarring but it was during this unsettling period that Ayed first closely observed the ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • My Mother's Secret

    A Novel Based on a True Holocaust Story

    by J.L. Witterick ...
    Inspired by a true story, My Mother’s Secret is a captivating and ultimately uplifting tale intertwining the lives of two Jewish families in hiding from the Nazis, a fleeing German soldier, and the mother and daughter who save them all.Franciszka and her daughter, Helena, are simple, ordinary people...until 1939, when the Nazis invade their homeland. Providing shelter to Jews in Nazi-occupied ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Secret of the Blue Trunk

    by Lise Dion ...
    Translated by Liedewij Hawke ...
    In this true story, Armande Martel, a young nun from Quebec, is arrested by the Germans in 1940 during a stay at her religious order’s mother house in Brittany. She spends the war years in a German concentration camp. After her return to Canada, she leaves the Church, finds the love of her life in Montreal, and adopts Lise Dion.Growing up, Lise is familiar with only a few facts of her mother’s ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus