Saints, Sinners, and Soldiers

Jeffrey A Keshen

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Canadian Military History | nr. 5
• The first-ever synthesis of both the patriotic and the problematic in wartime Canada, Saints, Sinners, and Soldiers shows how moral and social changes... Lees meer

Militia Myths

James Wood

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Canadian Military History
• This cultural history of the amateur military tradition traces the origins of the citizen soldier ideal from long before Canadians donned khaki and bo... Lees meer

Death or Deliverance

Teresa Iacobelli

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Canadian Military History
• Soldiers found guilty of desertion or cowardice during the Great War faced death by firing squad. Novels, histories, movies, and television series oft... Lees meer

Reluctant Warriors

Patrick M Dennis

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Canadian Military History
• During the "Hundred Days" campaign of the First World War, over 30 percent of conscripts who served in the Canadian Corps became casualties. Yet, they... Lees meer

A War of Patrols

William Johnston

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Canadian Military History
• In June 1950, North Korea invaded South Korea. Responding to a United Nations' call, Canada deployed an 8000-man brigade to the peninsula to fight as ... Lees meer

Betrayed

Richard O Mayne

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Canadian Military History
• In January 1944, Vice Admiral Percy Walker Nelles was fired from his position as head of the Royal Canadian Navy. Betrayed reveals the true story behi... Lees meer

Invisible Scars

Meghan Fitzpatrick

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Canadian Military History
• Invisible Scars provides the first extended exploration of Commonwealth Division psychiatry during the Korean War and the psychiatric-care systems in ... Lees meer

An Officer and a Lady

Cynthia Toman

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Canadian Military History
• During the Second World War, more than 4,000 civilian nurses enlisted as Nursing Sisters, a specially created all-female officers' rank of the Canadia... Lees meer

For Home and Empire

Steve Marti

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Canadian Military History
• For Home and Empire is the first book to compare voluntary wartime mobilization on the Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand home fronts. Steve Marti ... Lees meer

An Army of Never-Ending Strength

Arthur W Gullachsen

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Canadian Military History
• A survey of the remarkable logistical abilities of the Canadian Army during World War II, now in paperback. As Canadians battled through Northwest Eur... Lees meer

Labour Goes to War

Wendy Cuthbertson

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Canadian Military History
• During the Second World War, the Congress of Industrial Organizations in Canada grew from a handful of members to more than a quarter-million. What wa... Lees meer

Making the Best of It

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Canadian Military History
• Many women who lived through the Second World War believed it heralded new status and opportunities, but scholars have argued that very little changed... Lees meer

Frigates and Foremasts

Julian Gwyn

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Canadian Military History | nr. 4
• The first comprehensive study of naval operations involving North American squadrons in Nova Scotia waters, Frigates and Foremasts offers a masterful ... Lees meer

The Empire on the Western Front

Geoffrey Jackson

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Canadian Military History
• When Great Britain and its dominions declared war on Germany in August 1914, they were faced with the formidable challenge of transforming masses of u... Lees meer

The Weight of Command

J L Granatstein

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Canadian Military History
• Three-quarters of a century after the Second World War, almost all the participants are gone. This book contains interviews with and about the Canadia... Lees meer

Engaging the Line

Brandon R Dimmel

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Canadian Military History
• For decades, people living in communities along the Canada-US border enjoyed close social and economic relationships with their neighbours across the ... Lees meer

Portraits of Battle

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Canadian Military History
• From the Battle of Ypres to the Battle of Vimy Ridge, the Canadian Expeditionary Force played a key role in Allied victory during World War I. Blendin... Lees meer

Death or Deliverance

Teresa Iacobelli

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Canadian Military History
• Soldiers found guilty of desertion or cowardice during the Great War faced death by firing squad. Novels, histories, movies, and television series oft... Lees meer

Making the Best of It

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Canadian Military History
• Many women who lived through the Second World War believed it heralded new status and opportunities, but scholars have argued that very little changed... Lees meer

The Soldiers' General

Douglas E Delaney

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Canadian Military History
• By the end of the Second World War, Bert Hoffmeister had risen from Captain to Major-General and won more awards than any Canadian officer in the war.... Lees meer

Creating Canada's Peacekeeping Past

Colin McCullough

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Canadian Military History
• Creating Canada's Peacekeeping Past illuminates how Canada's participation in the United Nations' peacekeeping efforts from 1956 to 1997 was used as a... Lees meer

Capturing Hill 70

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Canadian Military History
• In August 1917, the Canadian Corps captured Hill 70, vital terrain just north of the French town of Lens. The Canadians suffered some 5,400 casualties... Lees meer

Canada's Road to the Pacific War

Timothy Wilford

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Canadian Military History
• In December 1941, Japan attacked multiple targets in the Far East and the Pacific, including Canadian battalions in Hong Kong. This intriguing account... Lees meer

Invisible Scars

Meghan Fitzpatrick

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Canadian Military History
• Invisible Scars provides the first extended exploration of Commonwealth Division psychiatry during the Korean War and the psychiatric-care systems in ... Lees meer