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THE FABER BOOK OF WAR POETRY.

By: Baker, Kenneth, ed. (Wilfred Owen, William Shakespeare, Robert Burns, W.H. Auden, Walt Whitman, Rainer Maria Rilke, Thomas Hardy, Dorothy Parker, A.E. Housman, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Graves, Rupert Brooke, Joy Corfield, Herman Melville, et al.)

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: London, Faber and Faber: 1996

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 16641

ISBN: 0571174531

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

598 pp, large 8vo (9 7/16" H). "Where previous war anthologies have confined themselves to particular periods or ideological outlooks, Kenneth Baker's takes a catholic view and benefits from a wider exploration of material, classical and modern, English and foreign-language. He has given preference to poems with a strong documentary or psychological realism, and the entire book is divided into sections dealing with such matters as 'The Patriotic Imperative', 'Recruitment', 'Weapons', 'Leadership', 'Civilian Victims', 'Conscientious Objection', 'Views of Death', and 'Gallantry and Her...
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THE FABER BOOK OF WAR POETRY.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: London, Faber and Faber: 1996

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 29093

ISBN: 0571174531

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR.

By: Bishop, James. Foreword by Lord Blake.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Angus & Robertson: 1982

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27673

ISBN: 0207148260

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

144 pp, 10 1/4" H. Profusely illustrated with b&w reproductions of photographs, drawings, advertisements. "The First World War, which claimed the lives of so many men on the battlefields of the Western Front, also profoundly affected the character and everyday life of the nation at home. It was the first 'total war' and the whole country contributed to the war effort. The unrelenting demands of the trenches eventually forced the Government to introduce conscription while, for those left behind, the state intervened more and more in the lives of its citizens. Hardships increased: f...
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NO PRICE TOO HIGH: CANADIANS AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR.

By: Copp, Terry.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McGraw-Hill Ryerson, Toronto, (1996), Ist edition.: 1996

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 25571

ISBN: 0075527138

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

255 pp, 4to (11 1/4" H). Illustrated witrh b&w photographs and maps. "(D)raws on original sources - personal letters and diary entries, and powerful photographs - to evoke the mood of those momentous years. The thoughts, hopes, dreams, fears, and heartbreaks of the generations of Canadians who faced the war are captured." Minor edge wear, small bump at bottom of front hinge and spine, crease in paper down front board, light waviness to edges of text block. Dust jacket has light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds, light to moderate rubbing - no color loss, soft crea...
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MUD, BLOOD AND POPPYCOCK: BRITAIN AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR.

By: Corrigan, Gordon.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: London, Cassell: 2003

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 25965

ISBN: 0304359556

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

431 pp, large 8vo (9 7/16" H). B&w maps, photographs, diagrams. "The First World War was a unique experience for the United Kingdom: the only time Britain fielded a mass army that opposed the main enemy in the primary theatre of war. One consequence of this 'continental commitment' was that Britain suffered many more casualties in 1914-18 than in the Second World War, a factor that has coloured post-1945 attitudes to 'the Great War'. Yet, as Gordon Corrigan reveals, the First World War was neither unnecessary nor badly conducted - two claims made with such frequency in the 1960s th...
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THE FORKED ROAD: CANADA, 1939-1957.

By: Creighton, Donald.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart: 1976

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28339

ISBN: 077102360X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

319 pp, 9 1/4" H. One of 'The Canadian Centenary Series'. B&w plates. "Canada's declaration of war against Germany in 1939 marked the beginning of the most significant eighteen-year period in the history of this nation. By the end of the Liberal regime in 1957 the country had undergone immense growth in human and material resources. The experience of the Second World War had been followed by participation in the Korean War and ten years of the Cold War. The Great Depression had given way to a boom which had continued through the exchange crisis, serious inflation and minor recess...
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THE NEW ZEALAND ARMY: A BIBLIOGRAPHY.

By: Dornbusch, C.E., compiler.

Price: $37.50 USD

Publisher: Hope Farm Press, Corwallville, N.Y., 1961, from an edition of 300 copies.:

Seller ID: 18700

116 pp, 9" H, soft cover. Contents: The New Zealand Army - Reference works, General works; Conscription; Defence of New Zealand; Manuals for training; Medals; Military cemeteries and memorials; Periodicals; Regimental histories; Veterans; The Maor i wars - Participation of the British army; South African war - The Contingents; World War I; World War II; Korean Conflict; Reference works; Index. Interior - soft bump/curl to top corner of textblock, slight curl to bottom corner of las t f e w p a g e s. Exterior - a few small light stains, light browning, light rubbing, hand-written tit...
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OUT OF THE SHADOWS: CANADA IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR.

By: Douglas, W.A.B. and Greenhous, Brereton.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Oxford University Press: 1977

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 10233

ISBN: 019540257X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

288 pp, 9 5/8"H. B&w photographs, maps, reproductions. "This is the first general overview of Canada's contribution to the Second World War that considers the operations of all three armed forces. (A)n illuminating and lucid analysis of Canada's war effort - a skilful synthesis that always relates its complex subject to the human level in countless anecdotes and 151 carefully chosen illustrations." Contents: Preface; Acknowledgements; 'Canada Will Respond'; An Unmilitary People; The Sinews of War; The Atlantic Bridge; The Army Overseas 1940-1943; Sicily and Southern Italy; Opera...
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OUT OF THE SHADOWS: CANADA IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR.

By: Douglas, W.A.B. and Greenhous, Brereton.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Oxford University Press: 1977

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 29840

ISBN: 019540257X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good -

THE BRITISH SOLDIER IN AMERICA: A SOCIAL HISTORY OF MILITARY LIFE IN THE REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD.

By: Frey, Sylvia R.

Price: $150.00 USD

Publisher: Austin, Texas, University of Texas Press: 1981

Seller ID: 17867

ISBN: 0292780400

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

211 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). Tables. "In her investigation of the social history of the common British soldier in the era of the American Revolution, Sylvia Frey has extensively surveyed recruiting records, contemporary training manuals, statutes, and memoirs in an attempt to provide insight into the soldier's 'life and mind'. In the process she has discovered more about the common soldier than anyone thought possible: his size, age, and general physical condition, his personal economics and daily existence. Her findings dispel the traditional assumpution that the army was made up lar...
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CANADA'S ARMY: WAGING WAR AND KEEPING THE PEACE.

By: Granatstein, J.L.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, University of Toronto Press: 2002

Seller ID: 22937

ISBN: 0802046916

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

519 pp, large 8vo (9 3/4" H). B&w photographs, reproductions. "(This book) traces the full three-hundred-year history of the Canadian army, from its origins in New France, through the Conquest, the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, Confederation, militia reform, the South African War, the two world wars, the Korean War, to postwar peacekeeping and peacemaking. Covering the major conflicts in depth, and exploring battles, tactics, and weapons, J.L. Granatstein also offers a rich analysis of the political context for the battles and events that shaped our understanding of the natio...
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A NATION FORGED IN FIRE: CANADIANS AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR, 1939-1945.

By: Granatstein, J.L. and Morton, Desmond.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: Torono, Lester & Orpen Dennys: 1989

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 13484

ISBN: 0886192137

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

287 pp, 4to (10 1/4" H). B&w photographs, maps, drawings, colour reproductions. The story of Canada's role in the Second World War, in battle, on the homefront and in victory - on convoy duty in the North Atlantic, as suppliers of food and armaments, as trainers of aircrews, etc., etc. Faint pencil erasure mark at top of free front endpaper, minor edge wear to boards, faint finger marks to boards. Dust jacket has light edge wear/wrinkling at top of spine and top/bottom of flap-folds, very light rubbing.
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DOCUMENTS ON CANADIAN EXTERNAL RELATIONS VOLUME 9 1942-1943. DOCUMENTS RELATIFS AUX RELATIONS EXTERIEURES DU CANADA.

By: Hilliker, John F., editor.

Price: $95.00 USD

Publisher: Hull, Quebec, Department of External Affairs: 1980

Seller ID: 28896

ISBN: 0660504642

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

1891 pp, 9 5/16" H. Dark maroon cloth with gilt lettering/coat of arms/banding and black title blocks on spine, gilt coat of arms on front cover. B&w photographs, fold-out map at rear. Bilingual French/English Introduction / Location of Documents / List of Persons / Captions to Illustrations / Indexes. Main text English only. This volume "deals with the evolution of Canadian policy during the middle years of the war, from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, until the end of 1943. During those years, attention shifted from working out the bases of Canada's part...
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HUTCHINSON DICTIONARY OF WORLD WAR I.

By: Hogg, Ian Vernon.

Price: $12.50 USD

Publisher: London, Brockhampton: 1997

Seller ID: 23680

ISBN: 1860195768

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

246 pp, 8vo (8" H). "Over 650 entries on what will always be 'The Great War', written by one of Britain's most experienced military authors, Ian Hogg, have been compiled. Included are: Places (Amiens, Gallipoli); People (Allenby, Hindenburg); Battles (Cambrai, Marne); Weapons (Big Bertha, Mannlicher rifle); Equipment (Dreadnough class battleships, Fokker aircraft); History (Identity disc, conscription, cryptography); along with (b&w) maps, photographs, tables, chronologies and quotes.
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BATTALION 999.

By: Konsalik, Heinz G. Translated by Oliver Coburn. Cover art by Brian Sweet.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: Aidan Ellis, (Henley-on-Thames, Oxon, 1976), Ist English edition.:

Seller ID: 11337

238 pp, 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. "This is the second in the Konsalik war series which began with 'Doctor of Stalingrad'...Konsalik once again captures the appalling and often gruesome life of a Russian labour camp. He recounts the experiences of Dr. Deutschmann who experiments on himself to avoid conscription; the doctor and his battalion are sent to the front under the command of Sergeant Krull. The plots and sub-plots unfold a harsh landscape of life which, after many an ordeal, leaves the blinded doctor and his wife reinstated which allows them to continue their beloved resea...
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A WORLD IN FLAMES, 1944-1945. A PORTRAIT OF WAR: PART TWO.

By: Malone, Richard S.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Collins: 1984

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28897

ISBN: 0002172798

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

318 pp, 9 3/4" H. B&w photographs, map. "In 1944, when this book begins, Richard Malone had been transferred from the Italian front back to England to take part in the Normandy landings. Trained before the war both as a soldier and a journalist, Malone had been seconded in 1940 from his regiment Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry as Staff Secretary to Col. J.L. Ralston, Canada's Minister of Defence. (Now) poised for D-Day, he held staff appointments at both Canadian Army and British 21st Army Group Headquarters and he was given charge of all Canadian Army Press and Psycholog...
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CALL TO ARMS: THE BRITISH ARMY 1914-18.

By: Messenger, Charles.

Price: $55.00 USD

Publisher: London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 2005

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 25974

ISBN: 0297846957

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

574 pp, large 8vo (9 7/16" H). B&w photographs. "(B)y the end of the war, over 8.5 million men had been recruited by Britain and the average field strength of its armies was 3.3 million men. For the first time, Britain found itself obliged to field land forces equal to those of its Continental neighbours. Moreover, however uncertain its beginnings, by 1918 this was an army that had become the most effective fighting force on the Western Front. In this exceptional account of the administration of the British Army in the First World War, Messenger charts how this unprecedented new f...
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YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU: FROM SIX TO SIXTY-FIVE DIVISIONS. EXPANSION OF THE BRITISH ARMY INFANTRY DIVISIONS, 1914-1918.

By: Middlebrook, Martin.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Barnsley, Pen & Sword / Leo Cooper: 2000

Seller ID: 22834

ISBN: 0850527090

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

176 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, reproductions. "The Great War's insatiable appetite for human life led to an extraordinary expansion of British infantry divisions from six to sixty-five. Martin Middlebrook expertly guides the reader through early mobilization, the growth of the 'Pals' movement and on to conscription. This was a war where numbers of divisions were the units of currency by which a nation's involvement were measured." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior very minor edge wear.
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YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU: FROM SIX TO SIXTY-FIVE DIVISIONS. EXPANSION OF THE BRITISH ARMY INFANTRY DIVISIONS, 1914-1918.

By: Middlekauff, Robert.

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Barnsley, Pen & Sword / Leo Cooper: 2000

Seller ID: 19089

ISBN: 0850527112

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

176 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H). Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, reproductions. "The Great War's insatiable appetite for human life led to an extraordinary expansion of British infantry divisions from six to sixty-five. Martin Middlebrook expertly guides the reader through early mobilization, the growth of the 'Pals' movement and on to conscription. This was a war where numbers of divisions were the units of currency by which a nation's involvement were measured." Light waviness to top/bottom of textblock, one very tiny corner bump. Dust jacket has light edge wrinkling...
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CANADIAN HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS SERIES - 3 VOLUME SET. VOLUME I. THE FRENCH REGIME. VOLUME II. PRE-CONFEDERATION. VOLUME III. CONFEDERATION TO 1949.

By: Nish, Cameron; Waite, P.B.; Brown, R.C.; Prang, M.E., editors.

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: Scarborough, Ontario, Prentice-Hall: 1965

Seller ID: 28735

Condition: Very Good

Three volume set - volumes I & III are hard covers in dust jackets, volume II is soft cover. Volume I: The French Regime - 176 pp, hard cover in dust jacket, 9" H - "(C)ontains a fascinating collection of first-hand accounts by individuals involved in the founding and settling of Canada. Through their own words these men chronicle their ambitions, deeds, and frustrations, from the time of Jacques Cartier's first voyage of exploration in 1534 to the surrender of Montreal to the British in 1760. Consisting mostly of translations from the original French, this book of documents was com...
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