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  • The Seabound Coast

    The Official History of the Royal Canadian Navy, 1867–1939, Volume I

    by William Johnston, William G.P. Rawling, Richard H. Gimblett, John MacFarlane ...
    From its creation in 1910, the Royal Canadian Navy was marked by political debate over the countrys need for a naval service. The Seabound Coast, Volume I of a three-volume official history of the RCN, traces the story of the navys first three decades, from its beginnings as Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Lauriers tinpot navy of two obsolescent British cruisers to the force of six modern destroyers ... Read more

    $25.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Through a Canadian Periscope

    The Story of the Canadian Submarine Service

    by Julie H. Ferguson ...
    A comprehensive history of Canada’s submarine service and the people who have served in it.Through a Canadian Periscope’s second edition celebrates the story of the Canadian submarine service on the occasion of its centenary in 2014.Created in 1914, at the beginning of World War I, Canada’s submarine force has overcome repeated attempts to sink it since then. Surprise, controversy, political ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On to Victory

    The Canadian Liberation of the Netherlands, March 23May 5, 1945

    by Mark Zuehlke ...
    The eighth Canadian Battle Series volume is the little-told story of the tense final days of World War II, remembered in the Netherlands as the sweetest of springs,” which saw the country’s liberation from German occupation.The Liberation Campaign, a series of fierce, desperate battles during the last three months of the war, was bittersweet. A nation’s freedom was won and the war concluded, but ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Their Finest Hour

    by Winston S. Churchill ...
    Series Book 2 - Winston S. Churchill The Second World Wa
    The second volume in the WWII history "written with simplicity, lucidity, and gusto" by the legendary leader and Nobel Prize winner ( The New York Times).In Their Finest Hour, Winston Churchill describes the invasion of France and a growing sense of dismay in Britain. Should Britain meet France's desperate pleas for reinforcements or conserve their resources in preparation for the inevitable ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ortona Street Fight

    by Mark Zuehlke ...
    Series series Rapid Reads
    December 20, 1943. Two Canadian infantry battalions and a tank regiment stand poised on the outskirts of a small Italian port town. They expect to take Ortona quickly. But the German 1st Parachute Division has other ideas. For reasons unknown, Hitler has ordered Ortona held to the last man. Houses, churches and other buildings are dynamited, clogging the streets with rubble. Germans with machine ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Assault on Juno

    by Mark Zuehlke ...
    Series series Rapid Reads
    Dawn, June 6, 1944. Off the Normandy coast 6,500 ships carry 150,000 Allied troops. This is D-Day, the long-awaited Allied invasion of German-occupied Europe. The Allies will storm five beaches. One is code-named Juno Beach. Here, 14,500 Canadians will land on a five-mile stretch of sand backed by three resort towns. The beach is heavily protected by a seawall, barbed wire, underwater obstacles ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Scarce Heard Amid the Guns

    An Inside Look at Canadian Peacekeeping

    by Lieutenant-Colonel John Conrad ...
    In the Service of Peace simple words that adorn the obverse of every United Nations medal, yet behind this eloquence lurks violence and an unheralded heroism invisible to an often misunderstood quarter of Canadas military history. The Canadian contribution to peacekeeping is enormous but ensnared in a lethal mythology that has seen it abandoned to popular folklore. From the early and intrinsic ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Disaster at Dieppe

    The biggest catastrophe in Canadian military history

    by Jim Lotz ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    In the early morning of August 19, 1942, over five thousand Canadian troops landed on the beach at Dieppe to reclaim the shore from German troops occupying France. It was a mission doomed from the start. Mere hours later, over two-thirds of the men were dead, wounded, or taken prisoner by German forces. It was the worst disaster in Canadian military history, and historians have found no convincing ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Sam Steele and the Northwest Rebellion

    The Trail of 1885

    by Wayne F. Brown ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    In the spring of 1885, it appeared that war was about to set the Canadian West aflame. Louis Riel had established a Metis provisional government at Batoche, and the Cree, led by war chief Wandering Spirit, had killed settlers, taken hostages and forced the capitulation of Fort Pitt. Among the forces marshalled to quell the unrest was an elite scouting unit of the Alberta Field Force, led by the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Forced to Change

    Crisis and Reform in the Canadian Armed Forces

    by Colonel Bernd Horn, Dr. Bill Bentley ...
    Undeniably, the 1990s were a period of crisis for the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF). Drastic budget reductions and a series of endless scandals all collided to form the perfect storm. The outcome of this was nothing short of the implosion of the Canadian Armed Forces Officer Corps.Stripped by the government of the right to regulate itself, the Officer Corps, which represented the nation’s stewards ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Highway of Heroes

    True Patriot Love

    by Pete Fisher ...
    The first four Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan were repatriated at Canadas largest military base in 2002. The fallen soldiers were driven down the 172-kilometre stretch of highway between Trenton and Toronto, and pedestrians lined the overpasses, hoping to make a connection with the grieving families. The support these people show isnt political; its not a movement for or against Canadian ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Code Name Habbakuk: A Secret Ship Made of Ice

    A Secret Ship Made of Ice

    by L.D. Cross ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    In late 1942, Britain was desperate to win the ongoing Battle of the Atlantic. German U-boats had sunk hundreds of Allied ships containing millions of tons of cargo that was needed to continue the war effort. Prime Minister Churchill had to find a solution to the carnage or the Nazis would be victorious. With the support of Churchill and Lord Louis Mountbatten, eccentric inventor and amateur spy ... Read more

    $7.19 USD