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  • Memoirs of the Flight Surgeon of HMS Nabob

    In the evening dusk of August 22, 1944, during an intense battle off the Norwegian coast, the HMS Nabob, one of the two Canadian-crewed aircraft carriers in the Second World War was struck by a torpedo on the starboard side. Among the souls on board was Dr. Charles Read Jr., a young flight surgeon who needed to draw upon every bit of his training and skills to fight against seemingly impossible ... En savoir plus

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  • Combat Mission Kandahar

    The Canadian Experience in Afghanistan

    Seven soldiers. Seven military specialties. Seven stories.What was it like to serve in the combat mission in Afghanistan? Journalists’ reports from 2006 to 2011 could only give brief glimpses of the reality on the ground for Canadian soldiers. This book reveals the full story of what happened to seven soldiers, ranking from corporal to captain, who were deployed during Operation ATHENA, Phase 2. ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Bomb Girls

    Trading Aprons for Ammo

    par Barbara Dickson ...
    2016 Speaker's Book Award — Shortlisted2016 Heritage Toronto Book Award — NominatedAn account of the women working in high-security, dangerous conditions making bombs in Toronto during the Second World War.What was it like to work in a Canadian Second World War munitions factory? What were working conditions like? Did anyone die? Just how closely did female employees embody the image of “Rosie the ... En savoir plus

    $8.09 CAD

  • On Guard For Thee: Canadian Peacekeeping Missions

    par Matthew Bin ...
    On Guard For Thee: Canadian Peacekeeping Missions is a collection of stories about Canadian men and women who have served overseas on UN or NATO missions from the end of the Cold War to the present day. The stories are collected directly from the individual veterans. Contributors represent virtually every major Canadian mission, including Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Cambodia, Somalia, and Afghanistan ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • First Soldiers Down

    Canada's Friendly Fire Deaths in Afghanistan

    par Ron Corbett ...
    On April 18, 2002, Alpha Company, Third Battalion of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, was on a training exercise at Tarnak Farms, a former Taliban artillery range in southern Afghanistan. The exercise had been underway for nearly seven hours when two American fighter pilots flew overhead. One, Major Harry Schmidt, saw the artillery fire below, and thinking he was under attack, ... En savoir plus

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  • Canadian Nuclear Weapons

    The Untold Story of Canada's Cold War Arsenal

    par John Clearwater ...
    "We are thus not only the first country in the world with the capability to produce nuclear weapons that chose not to do so, we are also the first nuclear armed country to have chosen to divest itself of nuclear weapons."Pierre Trudeau United Nations, 26 May 1978From 1963 to 1984, US nuclear warheads armed Canadian weapons systems in both Canada and West Germany. It is likely that during the early ... En savoir plus

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  • Fighting Words

    Canada's Best War Reporting

    par Mark Bourrie ...
    Fighting Words is a collection of the very best war journalism created by or about Canadians at war. The collection spans 1,000 years of history, from the Vikings' fight with North American Natives, through New France's struggle for survival against the Iroquois and British, to the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the Rebellions of Lower and Upper Canada, the Fenian raids, the North-West ... En savoir plus

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  • Code Name Habbakuk: A Secret Ship Made of Ice

    A Secret Ship Made of Ice

    par L.D. Cross ...
    Collections series Amazing Stories
    In late 1942, Britain was desperate to win the ongoing Battle of the Atlantic. German U-boats had sunk hundreds of Allied ships containing millions of tons of cargo that was needed to continue the war effort. Prime Minister Churchill had to find a solution to the carnage or the Nazis would be victorious. With the support of Churchill and Lord Louis Mountbatten, eccentric inventor and amateur spy ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Canadian Corps in World War I

    par René Chartrand ...
    Collections series Men-at-Arms
    This book describes the organization, lists the units and illustrates the uniforms and equipment of the four Canadian divisions which earned an elite reputation on the Western Front in 1915-18.Canada's 600,000 troops - of whom more than 66,000 died and nearly 150,000 were wounded - represented an extraordinary contribution to the British Empire's struggle. On grim battlefields from the Ypres ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • Mobilize!

    Why Canada Was Unprepared for the Second World War

    par Larry D. Rose ...
    Despite Canada’s active participation in the First World War, which many claimed made Canada a nation, the country was almost defenceless in September 1939 when war was declared again.Larry D. Rose, a long-time journalist and a military specialist, examines the military’s own failures, the hidden agenda of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, and the divisions within Canada leading up to ... En savoir plus

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  • Shot Down and On the Run

    The RCAF and Commonwealth Aircrews Who Got Home from Behind Enemy Lines, 1940-1945

    The stories of many POW escapees are well known, but what about those who miraculously evaded capture in the first place and returned to fight another day?This compelling book tells some of the epic stories of the thousands of shot-down airmen, including Canadians from across the country, who got out from behind enemy lines in Europe, the Far East, and Africa during the Second World War. Based on ... En savoir plus

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  • Isaac Brock

    Canada's Hero in the War of 1812

    Collections series Amazing Stories
    Isaac Brock is the best-known figure of the War of 1812. He is widely credited as the military leader who frustrated the United States in its ambition to invade and take over Canada.Brock was born in the English Channel Island of Guernsey, where his limited combat experience did nothing to shake his moxy. Before coming to Canada, he faced a challenge to duel; when he insisted the other man be a ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD