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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “john nelson rickard”
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  • Forward with Patton

    The World War II Diary of Colonel Robert S. Allen

    by Robert S. Allen ...
    Series series American Warriors Series
    The WWII diary of a US soldier and Soviet spy who worked closely with General Patton is presented in this fully annotated edition.Robert S. Allen is one of the more controversial figures of the Second World War. After serving in France during World War I, he left the military to start a career as a syndicated columnist, eventually becoming the Washington, DC, bureau chief for the Christian Science ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Politics of Command

    Lieutenant-General A.G.L. McNaughton and the Canadian Army, 1939–1943

    by John Nelson Rickard ...
    In December 1943, Lieutenant-General A.G.L. McNaughton resigned from command of the 1st Canadian Army amidst criticism of his poor generalship and of his abrasive personality. Despite McNaughton's importance to the Canadian Army during the first four years of the Second World War, little has been written about the man himself or the circumstances of his resignation.In The Politics of Command, the ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • Advance and Destroy

    Patton as Commander in the Bulge

    by John Nelson Rickard ...
    Series series American Warriors Series
    In the winter of 1944–1945, Hitler sought to divide Allied forces in the heavily forested Ardennes region of Luxembourg and Belgium. He deployed more than 400,000 troops in one of the last major German offensives of the war, which became known as the Battle of the Bulge, in a desperate attempt to regain the strategic initiative in the West. Hitler's effort failed for a variety of reasons, but many ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

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  • The German Army on Vimy Ridge, 1914–1917

    by Jack Sheldon ...
    The book starts with on the capture of Vimy Ridge and the nearly spur of Notre Dame de Lorette in October 1914. The major battles of spring and autumn 1915 is described as is the twelve month period from late autumn 1915 when British forces occupied the lines on the western Ridge. The period from late autumn 1916 onwards when the Canadian Corps was preparing for the April 1917 assault on the ridge ... Read more

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  • How Canada Won the Great War

    by Robert Child ...
    For nearly 100 years Canada's role in ending WWI sooner than anyone thought possible has gone largely unrecognized. The Canadian Corp led by citizen soldier, Arthur Currie, became the premiere fighting force on the Western Front. The fact that Canada was not yet a formalized nation but a Dominion at the close of the war may be the reason for the absence of recognition yet the record of the ... Read more

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  • The Big Book of Canadian Trivia

    by Mark Kearney, Randy Ray ...
    Here in one big book is all the trivia and facts about Canada anyone needs to know. The Big Book is jam-packed with facts and stories. There are stories of important Canadian artifacts and history including what became of Canada's World War II spy camp. All regions and provinces are covered, as well as important Canadian figures like John Molson, Elizabeth Arden and Russ Jackson. If that isn't ... Read more

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  • A Rifleman Goes To War [Illustrated Edition]

    by Captain Herbert W. McBride ...
    Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack – 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photosThe classic account of sniping on the Western Front."Herbert Wesley McBride was a Captain in the Twenty-first Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, during the First World War. He was a sniper and commander of a machine gun unit known as the "Emma Gees." He was also the author of two books on the war: "A ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Patrol

    Seven Days in the Life of a Canadian Soldier in Afghanistan

    by Ryan Flavelle ...
    In 2008, Ryan Flavelle, a reservist in the Canadian Army and a student at the University of Calgary, volunteered to serve in Afghanistan. For seven months, twenty-four-year-old Flavelle, a signaller attached to the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, endured the extreme heat, the long hours and the occasional absurdity of life as a Canadian soldier in this new war so far from home. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A Perfect Hell

    The True Story of the Black Devils, the Forefathers of the Special Forces

    by John Nadler ...
    It’s 1942 and Hitler’s armies stand astride Europe like a colossus. Germany is winning on every front. This is the story of how one of the world’s first commando units, put together for the invasion of Norway, helped turn the tide in Italy.1942. When the British generals recommend an audacious plan to parachute a small elite commando unit into Norway in a bid to put Nazi Germany on the defensive, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Last Man Standing

    The Memiors of a Seaforth Highlander During the Great War

    by Norman Collins ...
    A first-hand account of World War I by a nineteen-year-old Englishman who led a platoon into the carnage of the Battle of the Somme.While researching his excellent earlier book: Veterans of World War I, author Richard Van Emden encountered a fascinating personality of that long-ago conflict. After witnessing German naval attacks on British civilians, Norman Collins enlisted in the Seaforth ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • History's People

    Personalities and the Past

    by Margaret MacMillan ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    Part of the CBC Massey Lectures SeriesIn History’s People internationally acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan gives her own personal selection of figures of the past, women and men, some famous and some little-known, who stand out for her. Some have changed the course of history and even directed the currents of their times. Others are memorable for being risk-takers, adventurers, or observers. ... Read more

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  • Guidebook to Murder:

    by Lynn Cahoon ...
    Series Book 1 - A Tourist Trap Mystery
    “Murder, dirty politics, pirate lore, and a hot police detective . . . A cozy lover’s dream come true” from the New York Times bestselling author (Susan McBride, USA Today bestselling author).In the gentle coastal town of South Cove, California, all Jill Gardner wants is to keep her store—Coffee, Books, and More—open and running. So why is she caught up in the business of murder?When Jill’s ... Read more

    $12.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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