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Brave Battalion: The Remarkable Saga of the 16th Battalion (Canadian Scottish) in the First World War - hardcover
By Mark Zuehlke - $36.95 - add to cart

Brave Battalion presents the story of four Canadian Highland regiments that were banded together as the 16th Battalion. Ninety years after the end of WWI, this work honours those soldiers and makes...

 

The British Soldier of the First World War - trade paperback
By Peter Doyle - $14.95 - add to cart

The First World War affected the lives of a whole generation of people in Britain and the Commonwealth. Most people living today will have an ancestor who fought or died in the conflict, and as the...

 

Canada's Black Watch: An Illustrated History of the Regular Force Battalions 1951-1970 - hardcover
By Simon Falconer - $35.00 - add to cart

Nothing brings to mind the romance and camaraderie of the army more than the Highland Regiments - arguably the most storied and well respected fighting units in the world. Among these soldiers, one...

 

Century of War - hardcover
By Luciano Garibaldi - $45.00 - add to cart

Two world wars, ethnic genocide, the atomic bomb, Vietnam: these pictures bear witness to 100 years of conflict-- and mankind' s dedication to the art of destruction. Taken at the front lines by fo...

 

Champlain's Dream - hardcover
By David Hackett Fischer - $37.00 - add to cart

David Hackett Fischer’s Champlain’s Dream is the enthralling story of an adventurer who was also an able leader with a rare vision for a new world founded on harmony and respect – where Europeans a...

 

Citrus: A History - trade paperback
By Pierre Laszlo - $17.95 - add to cart

Walk into your local grocery store and down the produce aisle, and you’ll find a dazzling array of citrus, from navel oranges and clementines to grapefruit and key limes—and sometimes even more exo...

 

Clean: A History of Personal Hygiene and Purity - trade paperback
By Virginia Smith - $21.95 - add to cart

Smith, a British historian and honorary fellow at the Centre for History in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene, traces the origins of our modern standards of cleanliness by reaching back...

 

The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War - trade paperback
By David Halberstam - $19.25 - add to cart

David Halberstam's magisterial and thrilling The Best and the Brightest was the defining book about the Vietnam conflict. More than three decades later, Halberstam used his unrivaled research and f...

 

Contact Charlie: The Canadian Army, the Taliban and the Battle That Saved Afghanistan - hardcover
By Chris Wattie - $32.95 - add to cart

In the summer of 2006, a Canadian army patrol travelling through Afghanistan’s Panjwayi region—a densely packed maze of villages, fields and vineyards west of Kandahar—surprised an unexpectedly lar...

 

Crossing Hitler: The Man Who Put the Nazis on the Witness Stand - hardcover
By Benjamin Carter Hett - $30.95 - add to cart

During a 1931 trial of four Nazi stormtroopers, known as the Eden Dance Palace trial, Hans Litten grilled Hitler in a brilliant and merciless three-hour cross-examination, forcing him into multiple...

 

The Culture of War - hardcover
By Martin Van Creveld - $34.00 - add to cart

A respected scholar of military history and an expert on strategy, Martin van Creveld recently explored the modern world’s shifting method of combat in The Changing Face of War. Now, in The Culture...

 

Custerology: The Enduring Legacy of the Indian Wars and George Armstrong Custer - trade paperback
By Michael Elliott - $16.95 - add to cart

On a hot summer day in 1876, George Armstrong Custer led the Seventh Cavalry to the most famous defeat in U.S. military history. Outnumbered and exhausted, the Seventh Cavalry lost more than half o...

 

The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 - trade paperback
By Rick Atkinson - $19.00 - add to cart

In An Army at Dawn—winner of the Pulitzer Prize—Rick Atkinson provided a dramatic and authoritative history of the Allied triumph in North Africa. Now, in The Day of Battle, he follows the strength...

 

The Death of Sigmund Freud - trade paperback
By Mark Edmundson - $17.50 - add to cart

Expanding on his 2006 New York Times Magazine article, Freud and the Fundamentalist Urge, Edmundson develops his thesis about the lure of powerful, authoritarian leaders. He begins in 1938 Vienna o...

 

The Decline and Fall of the British Empire - trade paperback
By Piers Brendon - $24.95 - add to cart

No empire has been larger or more diverse than the British Empire. At its apogee in the 1930s, 42 million Britons governed 500 million foreign subjects. Britannia ruled the waves and a quarter of t...

 

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