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“patrick rush mcdonald”

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  • Quilt of War

    by Patrick Rush McDonald ...
    The title of this book is made up of three words, with the middle one being a connector and the other two being opposites. A quilt is a thing of warmth and comfort. War is a thing of fear, devastation, and death. So, what is the common "thread"? Normally, a quilt is a series of blocks (each made up of many pieces) that, when sewn together, creates a visual story. A war, on the other hand, is the ... Read more

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  • Ortona Street Fight

    by Mark Zuehlke ...
    Series series Rapid Reads
    December 20, 1943. Two Canadian infantry battalions and a tank regiment stand poised on the outskirts of a small Italian port town. They expect to take Ortona quickly. But the German 1st Parachute Division has other ideas. For reasons unknown, Hitler has ordered Ortona held to the last man. Houses, churches and other buildings are dynamited, clogging the streets with rubble. Germans with machine ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Battle of The Somme (True Combat)

    by Alexander Macdonald ...
    The Germans could not believe their eyes. The English infantry were advancing at walking pace in four upright ranks, a yard or so apart from each other. They were sitting ducks. As the German machine guns rattled into life, the English died in their hundreds. On the first day of the battle, those parade-ground advances caused the greatest number of casualties of any single day in the history of ... Read more

    $1.83 CAD

  • Rommel, Knight's Cross (True Combat)

    by Nigel Cawthorne ...
    Under cover of the bombardment, the Germans blew gaps in the wire and cleared paths through the minefield. By the following morning, they had established a hole through the outer defences a mile and a half wide and taken more than 100 prisoners. Their charismatic leader, the dynamic Erwin Rommel, the Desert Fox, was the most highly respected German general of World War II.Read about the daring ... Read more

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  • The Battle of El Alamein (True Combat)

    by Nigel Cawthorne ...
    In the heat and dust of the North African desert, British and Australian troops led by General Montgomery were waiting for an attack by Rommel’s Afrika Korps. The defences they had prepared required the Germans to run the gauntlet between six pounder anti-tank guns and dug-in tanks. Montgomery urged his men to victory with the words: “Everyone must be imbued with the desire to kill Germans...”Read ... Read more

    $1.83 CAD

  • Canadian Spies

    Tales of Espionage in Nazi-Occupied Europe During World War II

    by Tom Douglas ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    During World War II, some of the most treacherous jobs were those performed by men and women located deep within enemy territory. Always in danger of being exposed and subjected to torture, imprisonment, and even death, their stories are chilling accounts of bravery and luck--and, in some cases, what happens when the luck runs out. ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Gray Tide in the East: An Alternate History of the First World War (2nd Edition)

    by Andrew J. Heller ...
    August 1, 1914, Berlin: Kaiser Wilhelm II cancels the German invasion of Belgium over the objections of his generals, sending his armies East against Russia instead of West to France, and sets off a chain of events that will radically change the course of modern history.Gray Tide in the East is the best-selling counterfactual history of the First World War, if the Germans had not invaded Belgium ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • 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

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  • A Storm in Flanders

    The Ypres Salient, 1914–1918: Tragedy and Triumph on the Western Front

    by Winston Groom ...
    From the Pulitzer Prize–nominated author of Forrest Gump: "A fascinating, evenhanded, page-turning account" of Ypres's pivotal WWI battles ( San Francisco Chronicle).The Ypres Salient in Belgian Flanders was the most notorious and dreaded territory in all of World War I—possibly of any war in history. After Germany's failed attempt to capture Britain's critical ports along the English Channel, a ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Riding into War

    The Memoir of a Horse Transport Driver, 1916-1919

    by James Robert Johnston ...
    Series Book 4 - New Brunswick Military Heritage Series
    On the ghastly battlefields of the First World War, Jimmie Johnston drove teams or pack horses carrying ammunition and hauling guns to the front lines. One night, Johnston was hauling guns back from the front line. Suddenly, in the darkness and pouring rain, he, his team, the wagon, and the guns pitched into an old trench. After disentangling the horses from their harness, Johnston found a ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Over 100 Facts WW1

    by Neil Michael O'Mara ...
    The First World War seems to have touched almost every family in Britain. Most people will have had a relative in their family tree that served in the armed forces between 1914 and 1918. Unfortunately this is no longer living memory but has slipped into recorded history. There is now resurgence in interest as the centenary is commemorated and many people realize they know so little about the war ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Paths of Death and Glory

    The Last Days of the Third Reich

    by Charles Whiting ...
    The epic story of how the Second World War was won.On 4 January 1945, General 'Blood and Guts' Patton confided gloomily to his diary, 'We can still lose the war.' The Nazis were attacking in Eastern France, Luxembourg and Belgium. General Eisenhower's allied armies had lost over 300,000 men in battle (with a similar number of non-battle casualties) and they were still in the same positions they ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus