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Falcons of France -- a novel about flying, World War I, and contemporary moralities. It was written by two American veterans of the 'Escadrille Lafayette', and contains thrilling tales of aerial battle and life during the war. This is a text that will appeal to anyone...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2024-04-05
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The emergence, dominance, and alarmingly rapid retreat of modernist industrial capitalism on Cape Breton Island during the “long twentieth century” offers a particularly captivating window on the lasting and varied effects of deindustrialization. Now, at the tail end of...
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AU Press and CCLH
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2024-03-26
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Finalist, Toronto Book Awards A Heritage Toronto Awards (Book) Nominee“A hospital ... is like a roosting box: a communal space that provides ideal but temporary shelter for [the] vulnerable.” In the aftermath of the First World War, a cash register factory in the west...
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Goose Lane Editions
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2024-02-20
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In the mid-to late 1660s and early 1670s, the Haudenosaunee established a series of settlements at strategic locations along the trade routes inland at short distances from the north shore of Lake Ontario. From east to west, these communities consisted of Ganneious, on...
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Mercury-Mercure
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2023-03-21
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In 1941, Hitler's deadly Bismarck, the fastest battleship afloat, broke out into the Atlantic. Its mission: to cut the lifeline of British shipping and win the war with one mighty blow. How the Royal Navy tried to meet this threat and its desperate attempt to bring the...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2022-04-27
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The long-awaited narrative history of the women who volunteered in Nova Scotia during the Second World War by award-winning journalist and author of No Place to Go.
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Nimbus
Parution :
2022-03-08
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C.S. Forester, creator of the beloved Horatio Hornblower series, takes readers on an exciting adventure to the shores of Tripoli in North Africa. That's where, more than 200 years ago, the United States was threatened by pirates who snatched American merchant ships and...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2021-11-09
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A renowned historian and Resistance fighter - later executed by the Nazis - analyzes at first hand why France fell in 1940. Marc Bloch wrote Strange Defeat during the three months following the fall of France, after he returned home from military service. In the midst...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2021-11-09
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The author had enlisted in 1901 in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers and was a reservist when the First World War broke out. He rejoined his old, 2nd Battalion and landed in France with them on 11 August 1914. He went right through the war with the battalion, never missing a...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2021-11-06
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William Bligh (1754-1817) was an officer of the British Royal Navy and a colonial administrator eventually rising in rank to Vice Admiral. During his command of the "Bounty" in 1789, a notorious mutiny occurred.William Bligh and eighteen of his loyal seamen were...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2021-11-05
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Profiles of 16 decisive struggles from ancient and modern times. Gripping accounts range from Alexander the Great's conquest to World War II. Pratt depicts the circumstances leading up to the decisive clashes, the personalities involved, and the historically important...
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Rare Treasure Editions
Parution :
2021-11-05
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Samurai! is the personal story of Japan's greatest fighter pilot!
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Rare Treasure Editions
Parution :
2021-11-05
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Self Condemned tells the story of Professor Renarding who finds himself reduced to a position at a second-rate university in Canada after his resignation as an academic in London. He and his wife suffer through a bleak and oppressive isolation in a dreary and alien...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2021-11-05
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WINNER OF THE HUBERT REEVES 2021 AWARD FOR SCIENCE COMMUNICATORS
It’s a story peopled by leading figures of modern nuclear physics, bold chemists, and scientists accused of spying. The one idea driving them is to master the atom, whatever the result may be.
With war...
Editeur :
Baraka Books
Parution :
2021-09-30
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“Jean-Yves Soucy’s story and encounter with my Dad provides a charming glimpse into a changing world, for us all.” Romeo Saganash
It’s 1963, Jean-Yves Soucy is 18 and dreams of being a fire warden scanning the boreal forest from a fire tower. But he ends up at an...
Editeur :
Baraka Books
Parution :
2021-08-30
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Real War,Real Soldier gathers the remaining memories of a veteran of World War II. Raoul Corbeil served in the Canadian Army from 1942 to 1946, and fought in the bitter Northwest Campaign that opened the route to Antwerp and liberated Belgium and the Netherlands.
His...
Editeur :
ÉDITIONS FPC
Parution :
2021-06-17
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Titanic. Its story is one of all those bound together on that ill-fated voyage in April 1912. On board were writers, artists, millionaires, sportsmen, priests, reverends, fashion designers, aristocrats, honeymooners, children, crew, and emigrants, all looking for a...
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Nimbus
Parution :
2021-05-18
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Winner, Evelyn Richardson Award for Non-FictionWinner, Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical WritingFinalist, Dartmouth Book Award for Non-Fiction Finalist, Margaret and John Savage Award for Best First Book (Non-fiction)A Hill Times' 100 Best Books in 2020...
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Goose Lane Editions
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2020-06-02
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In this second volume of Untold: Northeastern Ontario’s Military Past, authors Dieter K. Buse and Graeme S. Mount detail the contributions and experiences of men and women from northeastern Ontario who participated in military conflicts. They present, among many topics,...
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Latitude 46 Publishing
Parution :
2019-10-10
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"The Art of War" is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the 5th century BC and is attributed to the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu. The text is composed of 13 chapters, each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare and it is commonly...
Editeur :
KTHTK
Parution :
2019-07-03
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