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  • Solemn Mass for a Full Moon in Summer

    by Michel Tremblay ...
    Translated by Martin Bowman, Bill Findlay ...
    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    A bold, quirky play from the renowned Quebecois writer, translated into a robust and earthy Scots.On six moonlit Montreal balconies on a sultry summer's evening, eleven people tell their stories of love. Isabelle and Yannick are alive and ecstatic with the thrill of first love. Jeannine and Louise are in torment that their love may be dying. Rose and her son, Mathieu, are suspended in silent ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Remembering D-day

    Personal Histories of Everyday Heroes

    by Martin Bowman ...
    Seventy years on, D-Day remains the greatest combined military operation of all time. Published in association with the Imperial War Museum, this is a remarkable collection of the stories of those who took part.June 6th 1944 saw the greatest combined military operation of all time and subsequently D-day has become known as the single most crucial watershed of the last century. To commemorate this ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Mosquito Bomber/Fighter-Bomber Units 1942–45

    by Martin Bowman ...
    Series Book 4 - Combat Aircraft
    Truly an example of engineering ingenuity born out of the desperation of war, the legendary 'all-wooden' Mosquito was perhaps the best twin-engined fighter-bomber of its size to see action in World War 2.The first bomber variant to enter service was the B Mk IV, initial examples of which were issued to No 2 Group's No 105 Sqn at Swanton Morley, in Norfolk, in November 1941. Considerably faster ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Mosquito Bomber/Fighter-Bomber Units 1942–45

    by Martin Bowman ...
    Series Book 4 - Combat Aircraft
    Truly an example of engineering ingenuity born out of the desperation of war, the legendary 'all-wooden' Mosquito was perhaps the best twin-engined fighter-bomber of its size to see action in World War 2.The first bomber variant to enter service was the B Mk IV, initial examples of which were issued to No 2 Group's No 105 Sqn at Swanton Morley, in Norfolk, in November 1941. Considerably faster ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • B-17 Flying Fortress Units of the Eighth Air Force (part 2)

    by Martin Bowman ...
    Series Book 36 - Combat Aircraft
    The Boeing B-17, which has come to epitomise the American war effort in Europe, took the fight to Germans from the late summer of 1942 through to VE-Day.Its primary operator in Western Europe was the 'Mighty Eighth', who controlled 27 bomb groups for much of the war. This second of two volumes covers the 14 Bomb Groups of the Third Air Division.First hand accounts, period photography, profile ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • B-17 Flying Fortress Units of the Eighth Air Force (part 2)

    by Martin Bowman ...
    Series Book 36 - Combat Aircraft
    The Boeing B-17, which has come to epitomise the American war effort in Europe, took the fight to Germans from the late summer of 1942 through to VE-Day.Its primary operator in Western Europe was the 'Mighty Eighth', who controlled 27 bomb groups for much of the war. This second of two volumes covers the 14 Bomb Groups of the Third Air Division.First hand accounts, period photography, profile ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • Mosquito Aces of World War 2

    by Andrew Thomas ...
    Series Book 69 - Aircraft of the Aces
    The Mosquito developed into one of the most versatile aircraft of World War 2, entering service with Fighter Command in early 1942.The 'Mossie' was soon defending raids on Britain's Cathedral cities and became an integral part of the country's night defences. Its airborne radar gave it the ability to 'see' the enemy at night, and its speed and devastating fire power made it the finest nightfighter ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Billy Bishop

    Top Canadian Flying Ace

    by Dan McCaffery ...
    Series series Amazing Canadians
    Billy Bishop was the top Canadian flying ace in the First World War, credited officially with a record-breaking 75 victories. He was a highly skilled pilot and an accurate shot. Bishop went from being the most decorated war hero in Canadian history to a crusader for peace, writing the book Winged Peace, which supported international control of global air power. Author Dan McCaffery presents the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Last of the Ten Fighter Boys

    by Jimmy Corbin ...
    In 1940, against the backdrop of the Battle of Britain, 66 Squadron's commanding officer, Squadron Leader Athol Forbes, asked ten of his pilots to record their experiences of flying one of the greatest aerial battles ever waged. The Ten Fighter Boys, published in 1942, comprised the first-hand accounts of pilot officers and sergeant pilots from all walks of life. Among them was Sergeant Jimmy ... Read more

    $9.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Coming in to Land – the memoirs of Wing Commander Bill Malins DFC

    by Bill Malins ...
    At the age of 95, Bill Malins still remembers growing up on an Oxfordshire farm in the 1920s, where he would help with the haymaking, steer a horse-drawn harrow, milk a cow and ride sheep for entertainment. Amid the happiness there were moments of tragedy. There was the loss of his baby sister to peritonitis when Bill was seven years old. A couple of years later he had to stand by as the farm was ... Read more

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  • Luck and a Lancaster (2nd Edition)

    Chance and Survival in World War II

    by Harry Yates ...
    This book takes you, raid by raid, through the author's tour of operational duty over the last five months of 1944. It is a bomber pilot's story, but it is also about the grinding operational pressure, the brotherhood of the crew and fears of injury and death. It is about a squadron of Bomber Command that bore a barely-equalled burden in operational effort and losses. It is about young airmen the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Kenneth Lee DFC

    Battle of Britain & Desert Air Force Fighter Ace

    by Nick Thomas ...
    The heroic life of the pilot who became an ace with one of the most successful fighter squadrons in the RAF and a captive in a notorious Nazi POW camp.Following training, Lee received his commission and was posted to 501 Squadron which was sent to support the Expeditionary Force in France, arriving on 10 May, only hours after the Blitzkrieg had been launched. Lee quickly opened his score, claiming ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus