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  • Alexander's Tomb

    The Two-Thousand Year Obsession to Find the Lost Conquerer

    by Nicholas J Saunders ...
    Alexander the Great is a towering figure in world history, but despite our long-held fascination with him, his burial site is unknown. Alexander's Tomb is the epic tale of the ongoing quest to unlock one of the world's great mysteries. ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Ortiz’s War

    The Allies' Secret Weapon Against the Nazis in France

    by Nicholas Reynolds, Katie Sanders ...
    The untold story of the Allies’ secret weapon in occupied France.Peter J. Ortiz’s path to becoming the most battle-decorated member of America’s first spy agency—and one of the most decorated Marines of World War II—was unlike any other. Born in New York and raised between California and France, he would have stints as a merchant seaman, dude ranch manager, race car driver, lion tamer, circus ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • Trench Art

    Materialities and Memories of War

    by Nicholas Saunders ...
    Trench art is the evocative name given to a dazzling array of objects made from the waste of industrialized war. Each object, whether an engraved shell case, cigarette lighter or a pen made from shrapnel, tells a unique and moving story about its maker. For the first time, this book explores in-depth the history and cultural importance behind these ambiguous art forms. Not only do they symbolize ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • Killing Time

    Archaeology and the First World War

    by Nicholas J Saunders ...
    The Great War of 1914-1918 now stands at the furthest edge of living memory. And yet, hardly a month passes without some dramatic and sometimes tragic discovery being made along the old killing fields of the Western Front. Graves of British soldiers buried during battle – still lying in rows seemingly arm in arm or found crouching at the entrance to a dugout; whole 'underground cities' of trenches ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Matters of Conflict

    Material Culture, Memory and the First World War

    by Nicholas J. Saunders ...
    Matters of Conflict looks at the definitive invention of the twentieth century - industrialised war - and its vast and varied material legacy. From trench art and postcards through avant-garde art, museum collections and prosthetic limbs to battlefield landscapes, the book examines the First World War and its significance through the things it left behind. The contributions come from a ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • The Poppy

    A Cultural History from Ancient Egypt to Flanders Fields to Afghanistan

    by Nicholas J. Saunders ...
    In the aftermath of the horrific trench warfare of the First World War, the poppy – sprouting across the killing fields of France and Belgium, then immortalised in John McCrae’s moving poem – became a worldwide icon. Yet the poppy has a longer history, as the tell-tale sign of human cultivation of the land, of the ravages of war and of the desire to escape the earthly realm through inspired ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Desert Insurgency

    Archaeology, T. E. Lawrence, and the Arab Revolt

    by Nicholas J. Saunders ...
    In the desert sands of southern Jordan lies a once-hidden conflict landscape along the Hejaz Railway. Built at the beginning of the twentieth-century, this narrow-gauge 1,320 km track stretched from Damascus to Medina and served to facilitate participation in the annual Muslim Hajj to Mecca. The discovery and archaeological investigation of an unknown landscape of insurgency and counter-insurgency ... Read more

    $21.49 CAD

  • Trench Art

    by Nicholas J. Saunders ...
    A look at the items crafted by soldiers, prisoners, and civilians from war waste and other items during World War I and the years leading to World War II.Engraved shell-cases, bullet-crucifixes, letter openers and cigarette lighters made of shrapnel and cartridges, miniature airplanes and tanks, talismanic jewelry, embroidery, objects carved from stone, bone and wood—all of these things are trench ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Curating the Great War

    Edited by Paul Cornish, Nicholas J. Saunders ...
    Curating the Great War explores the inception and subsequent development of museums of the Great War and the animating spirit which lay behind them.The book approaches museums of the Great War as political entities, some more overtly than others, but all unable to escape from the politics of the war, its profound legacies and its enduring memory. Their changing configurations and content are ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • Conflict Landscapes

    Materiality and Meaning in Contested Places

    Edited by Nicholas J. Saunders, Paul Cornish ...
    Conflict Landscapes explores the long under-acknowledged and under-investigated aspects of where and how modern conflict landscapes interact and conjoin with pre-twentieth-century places, activities, and beliefs, as well as with individuals and groups.Investigating and understanding the often unpredictable power and legacies of landscapes that have seen (and often still viscerally embody) the ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • Bodies in Conflict

    Corporeality, Materiality, and Transformation

    Edited by Paul Cornish, Nicholas J Saunders ...
    Twentieth-century war is a unique cultural phenomenon and the last two decades have seen significant advances in our ability to conceptualize and understand the past and the character of modern technological warfare. At the forefront of these developments has been the re-appraisal of the human body in conflict, from the ethics of digging up First World War bodies for television programmes to the ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Icons of Power

    Feline Symbolism in the Americas

    Edited by Nicholas J. Saunders ...
    Icons of Power investigates why the image of the cat has been such a potent symbol in the art, religion and mythology of indigenous American cultures for three thousand years.The jaguar and the puma epitomize ideas of sacrifice, cannibalism, war, and status in a startling array of graphic and enduring images. Natural and supernatural felines inhabit a shape-shifting world of sorcery and spiritual ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD