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  • Our Finest Hour

    Canada Fights the Second World War

    by David Bercuson ...
    First published in 1995 as Maple Leaf Against the Axis, Our Finest Hour has been completely revised and updated, with new chapters that reflect the latest research about Canada's home front in the war and the formulation and execution of Canadian war strategy at the highest levels. Although Canada was not ready for war in 1939, the people of Canada and their armed forces eventually overcame major ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Eastern and Western Perspectives

    Papers from the Joint Atlantic Canada/Western Canadian Studies Conference

    Edited by Phillip Buckner, David Bercuson ...
    Series series Heritage
    The Atlantic Canada and Western Canada Studies Conferences have focused attention in recent years on the culture and development of two widely separated regions which have been frequently ignored in studies of the Canadian nation. The Atlantic Canada Studies Conference, meeting in 1974 and 1976 at the University of New Brunswick, and the Western Canadian Studies Conference, meeting annually since ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Canada and the Birth of Israel

    A Study in Canadian Foreign Policy

    by David Bercuson ...
    Series series Heritage
    Canadian Zionists of the 1930s were anxious to involve their government in the Palestine question. The pressure they brought to bear was fuelled by a new urgency when British policy in Palestine denied entry to Jewish refugees from the Nazi terror. Today there is a widely held impression that the Canadian government responded quickly and sympathetically to that pressure. Jews and Arabs alike, each ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Industry and humanity

    A study in the principles of industrial reconstruction

    by William King ...
    Series series Heritage
    Industry and Humanity was first published in 1918. In it William Lyon Mackenzie King, then a prominent public servant who had forged a respectable reputation among business leaders as an expert in labour affairs, discussed the process of national and industrial reconstruction then about to begin. The book reviewed several momentous crises in North American labour-management relations, revealed the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Treasuring the Tradition

    The Story of the Military Museums

    by Jeff Keshen, David Bercuson ...
    The Military Museums in Calgary, Alberta is Western Canada's only tri-service museum and military education centre. Containing the regimental museums of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI), Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians), The King's Own Calgary Regiment, and the Calgary Highlanders along with the Naval, Army, and Air Force Museums of Alberta, The Military Museums ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The World in Canada

    Diaspora, Demography, and Domestic Politics

    by David Carment, David Bercuson ...
    In response to these questions, contributors trace changes in Canada's demographic make-up, explore the relationship between domestic politics and Canadian foreign policy across the fields of diplomacy, development, defense and security, and immigration, and determine the extent to which Quebec's sensibilities to international issues differ from those of the rest of the country. The World in ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

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    One Christmas in Washington

    Roosevelt and Churchill Forge the Grand Alliance

    by David Bercuson, Holger Herwig ...
    Narrated by Lloyd James ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 4 min

    One Christmas in Washington is the fascinating, in-depth look at one of the most crucial periods in modern history: the Washington war conference of 1941, when two proud and accomplished statesmen struggled to overcome biases, suspicion, and hubris to create what turned out to be the war-winning alliance.The authors take a penetrating look at the high-level meetings and the scenes behind the ... Read more

    $20.95 USD

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  • Fight to the Finish

    Canadians in the Second World War, 1944-1945

    by Tim Cook ...
    Series Book 4 - Canadians Fighting
    **Winner of the 2016 Ottawa Book AwardThe magisterial second volume of Tim Cook's definitive account of Canadians fighting in the Second World War.**Historian Tim Cook displays his trademark storytelling ability in the second volume of his masterful account of Canadians in World War II. Cook combines an extraordinary grasp of military strategy with a deep empathy for the soldiers on the ground, at ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Necessary War, Volume 1

    by Tim Cook ...
    Series Book 3 - Canadians Fighting
    Co-winner of the 2014-2015 Charles P. Stacey AwardTim Cook, Canada’s leading war historian, ventures deep into World War Two in this epic two-volume story of heroism and horror, of loss and longing, sacrifice and endurance.Written in Cook’s compelling narrative style, this book shows in impressive detail how soldiers, airmen, and sailors fought—the evolving tactics, weapons of war, logistics, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Fight for History

    75 Years of Forgetting, Remembering, and Remaking Canada's Second World War

    by Tim Cook ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE OTTAWA BOOK AWARDSA masterful telling of the way World War Two has been remembered, forgotten, and remade by Canada over seventy-five years.The Second World War shaped modern Canada. It led to the country's emergence as a middle power on the world stage; the rise of the welfare state; industrialization, urbanization, and population growth. After the war, Canada ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Vimy

    The Battle and the Legend

    by Tim Cook ...
    A bold new telling of the defining battle of the Great War, and how it came to signify and solidify Canada's national identity.Why does Vimy loom so large in Canada's identity—and should it? Tim Cook, Canada's foremost military historian and a RBC Taylor Prize winner, examines the battle of Vimy Ridge in April 1917 and the way the memory of it has evolved over a hundred years. Vimy is unlike any ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Seven Days in Hell

    Canada's Battle for Normandy and the Rise of the Black Watch Snipers

    by David O'Keefe ...
    A riveting tourde force by Canada’s leading military historian about the heroic Black Watch’sfight for survival at Verrières RidgeCentred aroundone of Canada’s most storied regiments, Seven Days in Hell tellsthe epic tale of the bloody battle for Verrières Ridge, a dramatic saga thatunfolded just weeks after one of Canada’s greatest military triumphs of theSecond World War. O’Keefe takes us on a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD