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  • The Great Escape

    A Canadian Story

    par Ted Barris ...
    On the night of March 24, 1944, 80 Commonwealth airmen crawled through a 336-foot-long tunnel and slipped into the forest beyond the wire of Stalag Luft III, a German POW compound near Sagan, Poland. The event became known as "The Great Escape," an intricate breakout more than a year in the making, involving as many as 2,000 POWs working with extraordinary co-ordination, intelligence, and daring. ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD

  • Fire Canoe

    Prairie Steamboat Days Revisited

    par Ted Barris ...
    The story of steamboating in the Canadian West comes to life in the voices of those aboard the vessels of the waterways of the Prairies.Their captains were seafaring skippers who had migrated inland. Their pilots were indigenous people who could read the shoals, sandbars, and currents of Prairie waterways. Their operators were businessmen hoping to reap the benefits of commercial enterprise along ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Rush to Danger

    Medics in the Line of Fire

    par Ted Barris ...
    Noted military historian Ted Barris once asked his father, Alex, “What did you do in the war?” What the former US Army medic then told his son forms the thrust of Barris’s latest historic journey—an exploration of his father’s wartime experiences as a medic leading up to the Battle of the Bulge in 1944–45, along with stories of other medics in combat throughout history.Barris’s research reveals ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Dam Busters

    Canadian Airmen and the Secret Raid Against Nazi Germany

    par Ted Barris ...
    National BestsellerForeword by Peter Mansbridge“Barris tells the jaw-dropping story of a night that changed the war.” —The Globe and MailIt was a night that changed the Second World War. The secret air raid against the hydroelectric dams of Germany’s Ruhr River took years to plan, involved an untried bomb and included the best aircrewmen RAF Bomber Command could muster—many of them Canadian. The ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Victory at Vimy

    Canada Comes of Age, April 9-12, 1917

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Battle of the Atlantic

    Gauntlet to Victory

    par Ted Barris ...
    The Battle of the Atlantic, Canada’s longest continuous military engagement of the Second World War, lasted 2,074 days, claiming the lives of more than 4,000 men and women in the Royal Canadian Navy, the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Canadian merchant navyThe years 2019 to 2025 mark the eightieth anniversary of the longest battle of the Second World War, the Battle of the Atlantic. It also ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Deadlock in Korea

    Canadians at War, 1950-1953

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

  • Behind the Glory

    Canada's Role in the Allied Air War

    par Ted Barris ...
    In this 60th anniversary edition is Ted Barris' telling of the unique story of Canada's largest World War II expenditure -- $1.75 billion in a Commonwealth-wide training scheme, based in Canada that supplied the Allied air war with nearly a quarter of a million qualified airmen. Within its five-year life-span, the BCATP supplied a continuous flow of battle-ready pilots, navigators, wireless radio ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD

  • Breaking the Silence

    Veterans' Untold Stories from the Great War to Afghanistan

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

  • Battle of Britain

    Canadian Airmen in their Finest Hour

    par Ted Barris ...
    The gripping and heroic story of fighter pilots defending the skies over Britain from unprecedented Nazi attackFor 113 terrifying days in 1940, Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe, threw everything it had at Great Britain in hopes of early victory in World War II. The task of defending southern England from airborne attack fell to pilots in the Royal Air Force, supplemented in their darkest ... En savoir plus

    $27.95 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Dundurn Korean War Library Bundle

    Fighting Words / Korea / Triumph at Kapyong / Deadlock in Korea / Cross-Border Warriors

    Collections series
    This ebook bundle contains five books that chronicle Canada's participation in the conflict that gripped the Korean peninsula from 1950–53 and resulted in two very different nations that remain at odds today. This bloody and traumatic face-off between capitalist and communist ideologies highlighted the tensions of the Cold War that drew in nations from many parts of the world. Canadian soldiers ... En savoir plus

    $22.99 CAD

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    Battle of the Atlantic

    Gauntlet to Victory

    par Ted Barris ...
    Lu par Michael Anthony ...

    Version Longue

    14 heure 22 min

    The Battle of the Atlantic, Canada’s longest continuous military engagement of the Second World War, lasted 2,074 days, claiming the lives of more than 4,000 men and women in the Royal Canadian Navy, the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Canadian merchant navyThe years 2019 to 2025 mark the eightieth anniversary of the longest battle of the Second World War, the Battle of the Atlantic. It also ... En savoir plus

    $41.99 CAD