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  • The Greater War

    Other Combatants and Other Fronts, 1914-1918

    Edited by Jonathan Kraus ...
    Series series History (R0)
    The Greater War is an international history of the First World War. Comprising of thirteen chapters this collection of essays covers new aspects of the French, German, Italian and American efforts in the First World War, as well as aspects of Britain's colonial campaigns. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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  • The Myth of the Great War

    A New Military History of World War I

    by John Mosier ...
    "A compelling and novel reassessment of World War I military history" ( Kirkus Reviews )"There is much in the work I really admire, not least its brilliant recasting of the traditional military narrative." —Niall Ferguson, author of The Pity of WarBased on previously unused French and German sources, this challenging and controversial new analysis of the war on the Wester... ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • D-Day: History in an Hour

    by Rupert Colley ...
    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.Midnight, Tuesday 6 June 1944: the beginning of D-Day, the operation to invade Nazi-occupied Western Europe and initiate the final phase of World War II. A vast undertaking, it involved 12,000 aircraft and an amphibious assault of almost 7,000 vessels. 160,000 troops would cross the English Channel during Operation Overlord, paving the way for ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Battle for France

    Six Weeks That Changed The World

    by Philip Warner ...
    "Provides a fresh and invaluable explanation of the military and political events of that extraordinary campaign." — Scale Military Modeller InternationalAfter the long winter of the Phoney War, the invasion of the Low Countries and France by Hitler's rampaging armies threw the world into crisis. Chamberlain's government fell, Churchill became Prime Minister. France was humiliated, the British ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Britain and Victory in the Great War

    by Peter Liddle ...
    How can we begin to make sense of the Great War now that over 100 years have passed since it ended with the defeat of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman empire and Bulgaria, and the collapse of Tsarist Russia? The conflict had such a profound influence on world history that is it difficult to reconcile the different perspectives and draw clear conclusions. That is why this thought-provoking ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 1914-1918

    The History of the First World War

    by David Stevenson ...
    1914-1918, David Stevenson's history of the First World War, has been acclaimed as the definitive one-volume account of the conflictIn the summer of 1914 Europe exploded into a frenzy of mass violence. The war that followed had global repercussions, destroying four empires and costing millions of lives. Even the victorious countries were scarred for a generation, and we still today remain within ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Passchendaele

    A New History

    by Nick Lloyd ...
    'A timely re-appraisal . . . a masterpiece' General Lord Richard Dannatt'Sweeps aside mythology and provides a rational explanation and cool description of what took place' Max Hastings, Sunday Times_________________________________Between July and November 1917, in a small corner of Belgium, more than 500,000 men were killed or maimed, gassed or drowned - and many of the bodies were never found. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Erwin Rommel

    by Pier Paolo Battistelli ...
    Series Book 5 - Command
    Nicknamed 'The Desert Fox' for his cunning command of the Afrika Korps, Erwin Rommel remains one of the most popular and studied of Germany's World War II commanders.He got his first taste of combat in World War I, where his daring command earned him the Blue Max, Germany's highest decoration for bravery. He followed this up with numerous successes early in World War II in both Europe and Africa, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Max Hastings Two-Book Collection: All Hell Let Loose and Catastrophe

    by Max Hastings ...
    A two-book collection of Max Hastings’ bestselling works about the 20th century’s most terrible global conflicts.‘Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914’: In this centenary year, Hastings’ thrilling and also deeply moving account seeks to explain both how Europe plunged into what was then called ‘The Great War’, what befell the millions of people of many nations caught up in the first months on the ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Blitzkrieg

    Myth, Reality, and Hitler's Lightning War: France 1940

    by Lloyd Clark ...
    A "masterly account" of the juggernaut offensive that conquered France—but also marked the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany in World War II ( Kirkus Reviews).In the spring of 1940, the German forces launched an attack on France that combined superb intelligence, cutting edge strategy, and new technology—the blitzkrieg, or "lightning war." In just six weeks, it would achieve what their fathers ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Artillery in the Great War

    by Paul Strong, Sanders Marble ...
    A year-by-year examination of key WWI battles and how the ongoing advances in artillery shaped strategy, tactics, and oprations; includes battlefield maps!World War I is often said to have been an artillery war, yet the decisive role artillery played in shaping military decisions—and therefor the war itself—has rarely been examined. Artillery in the Great War traces the development of this all ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Fall of France:The Nazi Invasion of 1940

    The Nazi Invasion of 1940

    by Julian Jackson ...
    Series series Making of the Modern World
    On 16 May 1940 an emergency meeting of the French High Command was called at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris. The German army had broken through the French lines on the River Meuse at Sedan and elsewhere, only five days after launching their attack. Churchill, who had been telephoned by Prime Minister Reynaud the previous evening to be told that the French were beaten, rushed to Paris to meet the French ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD