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  • How to Count

    An Introduction to Combinatorics and Its Applications

    by Robert A. Beeler ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    Providing a self-contained resource for upper undergraduate courses in combinatorics, this text emphasizes computation, problem solving, and proof technique. In particular, the book places special emphasis the Principle of Inclusion and Exclusion and the Multiplication Principle. To this end, exercise sets are included at the end of every section, ranging from simple computations (evaluate a ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • The Transformation of British and American Naval Policy in the Pre-Dreadnought Era

    Ideas, Culture and Strategy

    Edited by John Beeler, Robert E. Mullins ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This volume examines the transformation of British and US naval policy from 1870 to 1889, which resulted in the British Naval Defence Act (1889), the construction of the first modern US battleships, and began the naval arms race which culminated in World War One. In examining the development of strategic thinking in the Royal and US Navies, it overturns conventional wisdom regarding genesis of the ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

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    Life-Long Warrior

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    Francis Pegahmagabow was a remarkable aboriginal leader who served his nation in time of war and his people in time of peacefighting. In wartime he volunteered to be a warrior. In peacetime he had no option. His life reveals how uncaring Canada was about those to whom this land had always been home.A member of the Parry Island band (now Wasauksing First Nation) near Parry Sound, Ontario, Francis ... Read more

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  • The Direction of War

    Contemporary Strategy in Historical Perspective

    by Hew Strachan ...
    The wars since 9/11, both in Iraq and Afghanistan, have generated frustration and an increasing sense of failure in the West. Much of the blame has been attributed to poor strategy. In both the United States and the United Kingdom, public enquiries and defence think tanks have detected a lack of consistent direction, of effective communication, and of governmental coordination. In this important ... Read more

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  • The Battle of Crete

    by Albert Palazzo ...
    Series series Australian Army Campaigns Series
    Between 20 May and 1 June 1941 the Second World War came to the Greek island of Crete. The Commonwealth defenders consisted of Australian, New Zealand and British refugees from the doomed Greek Campaign who had not recovered from defeat. ... Read more

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  • Canadians Under Fire

    by Robert Engen ...
    Infantrymen have been the sledgehammer of land warfare throughout the twentieth century but precisely how they fought at the tactical level has been difficult to determine. American historian S.L.A. Marshall for instance famously claimed that most Allied soldiers would not fight at all even when their lives were at stake. ... Read more

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  • Mobilize!

    Why Canada Was Unprepared for the Second World War

    by 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 ... Read more

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  • A Call to the Colours

    Tracing Your Canadian Military Ancestors

    by Kenneth Cox ...
    Series Book 7 - Genealogist's Reference Shelf
    Beginning in Canadas earliest days, our ancestors were required to perform some form of military service, often as militia. The discovery that an ancestor served during one of the major conflicts in our history is exciting. When you find a family name on a Loyalist muster roll, a Canada General Service Medal with an ancestors name engraved on it, a set of First World War attestation papers, or a ... Read more

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  • Ten Decisions

    Canada’s Best, Worst, and Most Far-Reaching Decisions of the Second World War

    by Larry D. Rose ...
    In the chaos of the Second World War, Canada faced cruel choices, both on the battlefield and in the world of politics. Of all these life-and-death choices, ten stand above the others in their importance, their agonizing stakes, and the impact they have on the country to this day. ... Read more

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  • Revealing Secrets

    An unofficial history of Australian Signals intelligence and the advent of cyber

    by Clare Birgin, John Blaxland ...
    Uncover Australia's best-kept secrets in this gripping history of signals intelligence and cyber warfare. What is Australian signals intelligence? Why do we have a national signals intelligence agency and why are our three armed services involved? What do they all do and why is it controversial? And how significant are our ties with, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and New Zealand, ... Read more

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  • The Last Century of Sea Power, Volume 2

    From Washington to Tokyo, 1922–1945

    by H. P. Willmott ...
    Series Book 2 - The Last Century of Sea Power
    "An important contribution . . . a thoughtful account of the years preceding the Second World War and, at much greater length, of the war itself." — HistoryIn this second volume of his history of naval power in the 20th century, H. P. Willmott follows the fortunes of the established seafaring nations of Europe along with two upstarts—the United States and Japan. Emerging from World War I in ... Read more

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  • The Naval Service of Canada, 1910-2010

    The Centennial Story

    Edited by Richard H. Gimblett ...
    Commended for the 2009 Keith Matthews AwardThis lavishly illustrated commemorative volume chronicles the full century, 1910-2010, of the Canadian Navy as a proud national institution. Known Officially until 1968 as the Royal Canadian navy and since then as the Maritime Command of the Canadian Forces, the naval service of Canada has played an important role in the development and security of our ... Read more

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