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  • Capturing Hill 70

    Canada’s Forgotten Battle of the First World War

    by Douglas E. Delaney, Serge Marc Durflinger ...
    Series series Studies in Canadian Military History
    In August 1917, the Canadian Corps captured Hill 70, a vital piece of ground just north of the French industrial town of Lens. The Canadians suffered some 5,400 casualties and defeated three days of determined German counter attacks. This spectacularly successful but shockingly costly battle was as innovative as Vimy, yet only a handful of Canadians have heard of it or of subsequent attempts to ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Adi of Boutanga

    A Story from Cameroon

    by Alain Serge Dzotap ...
    Illustrated by Marc Daniau ...
    A coming-of-age story for middle grade readers, set among the Mbororo people of central and western Africa.Thirteen-year-old Adi lives in west Cameroon, where she loves swimming in the river, making dolls for her little sisters, and writing new words in her notebook at school. But one day Adi’s hands start to shake with terror. Uncle Amadou—the most powerful member of her family—has declared that ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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  • God Loves Diversity and Justice

    Progressive Scholars Speak about Faith, Politics, and the World

    by Pat Davis, Maria A. Dixon, Marc H. Ellis, Serge Frolov, Susanne Johnson, Gordene MacKenzie, Pamela J. Milne, Qudsia Mirza, Nancy Nangeroni, Isam M. Shihada, Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh, Sze-kar Wan, Victoria Fontan, Joerg Rieger ...
    Both personal and scholarly in tone, this book encourages readers to think theologically, ethically, and politically about the statement that declares: “God loves diversity and justice.” The multi-religious, multi-ethnic, multi-disciplinary, and multi-gendered identities of the eleven contributors and two respondents deepen the conversation. It considers questions such as: Do we affirm or ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

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  • Canada at War

    A Graphic History of World War Two

    by Paul Keery, Michael Wyatt ...
    A beautifully crafted graphic novel, tracing the achievements of the Canadian Forces in the Second World War.In 1914, Canada went to war as a subject of Britain. In 1939, it made the choice to fight all on its own.Canada at War follows the developments and setbacks, wins and losses, of a nation learning to stand up for itself in the midst of the most difficult war of the 20th century.In graphic ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Breaking the Silence

    Veterans' Untold Stories from the Great War to Afghanistan

    by Ted Barris ...
    "Never talked about it."That's what most people say when they're asked if the veteran in the family ever shared wartime experiences. Describing combat, imprisonment or lost comrades from the World Wars, the Korea War, or even Afghanistan is reserved for Remembrance Day or the Legion lounge. Nobody was ever supposed to see them get emotional, show their vulnerability. Nobody was ever to know the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • 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

  • Through a Canadian Periscope

    The Story of the Canadian Submarine Service

    by Julie H. Ferguson ...
    A comprehensive history of Canada’s submarine service and the people who have served in it.Through a Canadian Periscope’s second edition celebrates the story of the Canadian submarine service on the occasion of its centenary in 2014.Created in 1914, at the beginning of World War I, Canada’s submarine force has overcome repeated attempts to sink it since then. Surprise, controversy, political ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Scarce Heard Amid the Guns

    An Inside Look at Canadian Peacekeeping

    by Lieutenant-Colonel John Conrad ...
    In the Service of Peace simple words that adorn the obverse of every United Nations medal, yet behind this eloquence lurks violence and an unheralded heroism invisible to an often misunderstood quarter of Canadas military history. The Canadian contribution to peacekeeping is enormous but ensnared in a lethal mythology that has seen it abandoned to popular folklore. From the early and intrinsic ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD

  • Victory at Vimy

    Canada Comes of Age, April 9-12, 1917

    by Ted Barris ...
    National BestsellerAt the height of the First World War, on Easter Monday April 9, 1917, in early morning sleet, sixteen battalions of the Canadian Corps rose along a six-kilometre line of trenches in northern France against the occupying Germans. All four Canadian divisions advanced in a line behind a well-rehearsed creeping barrage of artillery fire. By nightfall, the Germans had suffered a ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Disaster at Dieppe

    The biggest catastrophe in Canadian military history

    by Jim Lotz ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    In the early morning of August 19, 1942, over five thousand Canadian troops landed on the beach at Dieppe to reclaim the shore from German troops occupying France. It was a mission doomed from the start. Mere hours later, over two-thirds of the men were dead, wounded, or taken prisoner by German forces. It was the worst disaster in Canadian military history, and historians have found no convincing ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Sam Steele and the Northwest Rebellion

    The Trail of 1885

    by Wayne F. Brown ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    In the spring of 1885, it appeared that war was about to set the Canadian West aflame. Louis Riel had established a Metis provisional government at Batoche, and the Cree, led by war chief Wandering Spirit, had killed settlers, taken hostages and forced the capitulation of Fort Pitt. Among the forces marshalled to quell the unrest was an elite scouting unit of the Alberta Field Force, led by the ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Forced to Change

    Crisis and Reform in the Canadian Armed Forces

    by Colonel Bernd Horn, Dr. Bill Bentley ...
    Undeniably, the 1990s were a period of crisis for the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF). Drastic budget reductions and a series of endless scandals all collided to form the perfect storm. The outcome of this was nothing short of the implosion of the Canadian Armed Forces Officer Corps.Stripped by the government of the right to regulate itself, the Officer Corps, which represented the nation’s stewards ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus