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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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DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER: SOLDIER OF DEMOCRACY.

By: Davis, Kenneth S.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: New York, Konecky & Konecky:

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 29210

ISBN: 156852059X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

566 pp, 9 1/2" H. Undated reprint of the 1945 edition, c1999. A volume in the "Leaders of Our Time" series. "On June 6, 1944, a decisive day in the history of the Western World, the radio had been blaring reports of the progress of American troops on the Normandy beachhead since long before dawn. The man whose portrait is examined in this book had reached the supreme moment of his career. This work is a first hand account of Dwight D. Eisenhower from his early years in Texas through his military service in World War II. It documents his training at West Point, his tour of...
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RECOLLECTIONS OF A LIFE PHOTOGRAPHER.

By: Kirkland, Wallace. Inscribed.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin: 1954

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Inscribed By Author

Seller ID: 15768

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good -

272 pp, 8vo (8 1/4" H). INSCRIBED ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER "TO ELIZABETH 'LIZ', FROM WALLACE KIRKLAND 'KIRK', KEEP FOLLOWING THE GINGERBREAD - THE HELL WITH THE PENNIES". B&w photographs. "Wallace Kirkland has been a photographer for 'Life Magazine' since it began. One of the editors of that magazine is said to have remarked upon hearing of the book, 'I always said you were the world's worst photographer, and the world's best writer'. This book consists of the stories behind Kirkland's photographic assignments - some of the ones which became famous: The Fox Hunt, The Birth o...
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LOOK AT THE ARMY.

By: Lord, Beman.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Henry Z. Walck, New York, 1965, first edition.:

Seller ID: 17955

56 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. Profusely illustrated with b&w photograph, reproductions, map. "Do you know....how many wars our Army has fought? who Pancho Villa was? what 'Remember the Maine' means? why the Army once used camels? what 'the long gray line' is? (This) is the story of the United States Army, from the first band of men organized under Myles Standish for protection against the Indians, to the men in today's Ordnance Corps working on our satell i t e a n d m i ssile programs. Many men have distinguished themselves in the service of our country...
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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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THUNDER IN THE MORNING CALM: THE ROYAL CANADIAN NAVY IN KOREA 1950-1955.

By: Meyers, Edward C.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: St. Catharines, Ontario, Vanwell: 1992

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 22672

ISBN: 0920277713

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

248 pp, 9 1/4" H. B&w photographs. "Between July 1950 and August 1955, when the last Royal Canadian Navy ship returned home from Korea, a total of eight Canadian destroyers performed twenty-one single tours of duty manned by more than 6,000 sailors. In recounting the efforts of the many who served in those almost forgotten ships, (the author) depicts a navy at mid-century, determined to assert its distinct Canadian identity. His is an account of a war viewed from the vantage point of the lower deck; of one whose own experiences and those of his shipmates are testimony to the fact th...
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ELEVENTH MONTH, ELEVENTH DAY, ELEVENTH HOUR: ARMISTICE DAY, 1918. WORLD WAR I AND ITS VIOLENT CLIMAX. (11th)

By: Persico, Joseph E.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: New York, Random House: 2004

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 25376

ISBN: 0375508252

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

456 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H). B&w photographs. "November 11, 1918. The final hours pulsate with tension as every man in the trenches hopes to escape the melancholy distinction of being the last to die in World War I. The Allied generals knew the fighting would end precisely at 11:00 a.m., yet in the final hours they flung men against an already beaten Germany. The result? Eleven thousand casualties suffered - more than during the D-Day invasion of Normandy. Why? Allied commanders wanted to punish the enemy to the very last moment, and career officers saw a fast-fading chance fo...
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ELEVENTH MONTH, ELEVENTH DAY, ELEVENTH HOUR: ARMISTICE DAY, 1918. WORLD WAR I AND ITS VIOLENT CLIMAX. (11th)

By: Persico, Joseph E.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: New York, Random House: 2004

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 29090

ISBN: 0375508252

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

THE KOREAN WAR: HISTORY AND TACTICS.

By: Rees, David, consultant editor. (Major F.A. Godfrey, Brigadier-General Edwin H. Simmons, Bryan Perrett, Ian Beckett, P.J. Banyard, Anthony Robinson, David Robinson, David Rees.)

Price: $12.50 USD

Publisher: Bedford, (London, 1984).:

Seller ID: 9785

128 pp, 4to, hard cover in dust jacket. Over 200 illustrations, 75 in color. "...a full and detailed study of this war. It reveals how and why the confrontation in the Korean Peninsula was created and details the events of the war. The reader is taken behind the scenes, into the debates and personality clashes that led U.S. President Harry Truman to dismiss General Douglas MacArthur. Nor does it neglect 'the other side of the hill', for it shows why the Chinese decided to inter v e n e a n d a s sesses the methods that gave their relatively ill-equipped infantry such a devastating i...
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THE AIR CAMPAIGN: PLANNING FOR COMBAT. VOLUME III - FUTURE WARFARE SERIES.

By: Warden, John A. III, Colonel USAF. Introduction by Gen. Charles L. Donnelly, Jr., USAF.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Washington, Pergamon-Brassey's: 1989

Seller ID: 23781

ISBN: 0080367356

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

161 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H). B&w photographs. "One of the first analyses of the pure art of planning the aerial dimension of war. (It) explores the complicated connection between air superiority and victory by focusing on the use of air forces at the operational level in a theater of war. The most compelling task for the theater commander, the author argues, is translating national war objectives into tactical plans at operational levels. He presents his case by drawing on fascinating historical examples, stressing that mastery of operational-level strategy can be the key to winning ...
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Keyword: Douglas MacArthur