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  • Incredible Victory: The Battle of Midway

    The Battle of Midway

    by Walter Lord ...
    Outgunned and outmanned on the Pacific Ocean, a small American fleet defied the odds and turned the tide of World War IIOn the morning of June 4, 1942, doom sailed on Midway. Hoping to put itself within striking distance of Hawaii and California, the Japanese navy planned an ambush that would obliterate the remnants of the American Pacific fleet. On paper, the Americans had no chance of winning. ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Miracle of Dunkirk

    The True Story of Operation Dynamo

    by Walter Lord ...
    Stranded on the beach with the Nazis closing in, the British army managed one of the most unlikely maneuvers in modern military historyIn May of 1940, the remnants of the French and British armies, broken by Hitler’s blitzkrieg, retreated to Dunkirk. Hemmed in by overwhelming Nazi strength, the 338,000 men who gathered on that beach were all that stood between Hitler and Western Europe. Crush them ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Night Lives On: The Untold Stories and Secrets Behind the Sinking of the "Unsinkable" Ship—Titanic

    The Untold Stories and Secrets Behind the Sinking of the "Unsinkable" Ship—Titanic

    by Walter Lord ...
    Series Book 2 - The Titanic Chronicles
    Three decades after his landmark work A Night to Remember, Walter Lord revisits the TitanicYears after A Night to Remember stoked the fires of public interest in the doomed RMS Titanic, the clamor for details about April 14, 1912, has not abated. As die-hard professional and amateur historians—“rivet counters,” they are called—puzzle over minute details of the ship’s last hours, a wealth of facts ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Day of Infamy

    The Bombing of Pearl Harbor

    by Walter Lord ...
    Lord’s classic, bestselling account of the bombing of Pearl HarborThe Day of Infamy began as a quiet morning on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor. But as Japan’s deadly torpedoes suddenly rained down on the Pacific fleet, soldiers, generals, and civilians alike felt shock, then fear, then rage. From the chaos, a thousand personal stories of courage emerged. Drawn from hundreds of interviews, ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Way It Was

    Walter Lord on His Life and Books

    by Walter Lord ...
    In 1926, Walter Lord, nine years old, persuaded his mother to cross the Atlantic aboard the Olympic. The choice was no accident; the Olympic was sister ship to the Titanic and already the doomed White Star liner sailed in and out of young Lord's imagination. The following year, he wrote and illustrated an account of how the Titanic sank in the early morning hours of April 14, 1912 with the loss of ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Good Years: From 1900 To The First World War [Illustrated Edition]

    by Walter Lord ...
    Includes more than 25 illustrationsWALTER LORD NEVER STARTS FROM SCRATCH. For months before a word of this book was written, he could be found roaming the country, ferreting out the fascinating people who helped shape these years. One week it might be Elijah Baum, who piloted Wilbur Wright to his first lodgings at Kitty Hawk…the next, and old fireman who fought the flames at San Francisco…the next ... Read more

    $6.98 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Night to Remember

    The Sinking of the Titanic

    by Walter Lord ...
    Series Book 1 - The Titanic Chronicles
    #1 New York Times Bestseller: The definitive book on the sinking of the Titanic , based on interviews with survivors, by the author of The Miracle of Dunkirk ."Absolutely gripping and un-put-downable." —David McCullough, author of John AdamsAt first, no one but the lookout recognized... ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Time to Stand

    The Epic of the Alamo

    by Walter Lord ...
    The #1 New York Times –bestselling author of The Miracle of Dunkirk tells the story of the Texans who fought Santa Anna's troops at the Battle of the Alamo."Probably the best of all Alamo accounts . . . a history which should last." — The New York Times Book ReviewLooking out over the walls of the whitewashed Alamo, sweltering ... ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • World in Crisis

    Classic Accounts of World War II

    by Walter Lord, William J. Craig, Richard Tregaskis ...
    Three New York Times –bestselling World War II histories, including the true story of the miraculous evacuation portrayed in the Christopher Nolan film Dunkirk .The monumental scope and breathtaking heroism of World War II are brought to vivid life in three riveting accounts that span the conflict's Western Front, Eastern Front, and Pacific Theater.The Miracle of Dun... ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Good Years

    From 1900 to the First World War

    by Walter Lord ...
    A New York Times –bestselling history of the United States in the years between the Gilded Age and World War I, by the author of A Night to Remember ."[Lord had] the extraordinary ability to bring the past to life." —Jenny Lawrence, author of The Way It Was: Walter Lord on His Life and BooksThough remarkable in their own right,... ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Complete Titanic Chronicles

    A Night to Remember and The Night Lives On

    by Walter Lord ...
    Series series The Titanic Chronicles
    The complete and definitive New York Times –bestselling chronicle of the Titanic, including survivors' stories and extensive research separating fact from myth.In just two hours and forty minutes, 1,500 souls were lost at sea when the RMS Titanic succumbed to the icy waters of the North Atlantic. Based on interviews with sixty-three survivors, A Night to Remember tells the story of that fateful ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The World War II Collection

    The Miracle of Dunkirk, Day of Infamy, and Incredible Victory

    by Walter Lord ...
    Full-length accounts of three decisive WWII events—Pearl Harbor, Midway, and the evacuation of Dunkirk—from a #1 New York Times –bestselling author.In May 1940, the remnants of the French and British armies, broken by Hitler's blitzkrieg, retreated to the beach at Dunkirk. Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered an evacuation on May 26, expecting to save no more than a handful of his men. But ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus