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THE BALANCE OF POWER. BEATTY MEMORIAL LECTURES.

By: Beloff, Max. Preface by H. Noel Fieldhouse.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Montreal, McGill University Press: 1967

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28359

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

73 pp, 7 1/2" H. Contents: Preface; Foreword; The Partition of Europe and Afterwards; Post-Imperial Asia; International Organizations: Records and Prospects. Dust jacket has very light edge wear, very light rubbing and soiling, a few tiny scuffs, small dent on spine.
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STAND ON GUARD: THE SEARCH FOR A CANADIAN DEFENCE POLICY.

By: Brewin, Andrew.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1965, first edition.:

Seller ID: 18684

140 pp, 8vo (8 5/8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. "In today's nuclear era, in a world now spending roughly $120 billion annually preparing for war, all other questions fade into insignificance in comparison with the problem of preventing conflict. Yet in this race toward annihilation Canada, with a limited budget and modest military strength, could carve for herself a new, significant and perhaps decisive role, if her military and political leaders could set aside tradition-bound c o n c e p t s , concentrating instead on the unique position Canada can hold on a world scale. Penetr...
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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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NORTHERN APPROACHES: CANADA AND THE SEARCH FOR PEACE.

By: Eayrs, James.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Macmillan Canada: 1961

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28515

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

195 pp, 8 3/4" H. "A brilliant intelligence is brought to bear on the vital issues of Canadian defence and foreign policy, on Canada's relations with the U.S. and the British Commonwealth and the Communist bloc. Canadians do not always look at these problems in the same way as their North American neighbours. This book considers the Canadian 'style' in approaching such questions. (Discusses) difficult and frightening issues such as the location of the Great Deterrent, the acquisition of nuclear weaons, the fate of the Avro Arrow, civil defence. (Eayrs) examines the 'Nostrum of Neu...
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THE PRICE OF COMMAND: A BIOGRAPHY OF GENERAL GUY SIMONDS.

By: Graham, Dominick.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Stoddart: 1993

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 29457

ISBN: 0773726926

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

345 pp, 8vo (9 1/4" H). Map endpapers, b&w photographs, maps. "Lieutenant General Guy Granville Simonds was one of the Second World War's most dynamic strategists and commanded enormous respect from British generals such as Bernard Montgomery and Alan Brooke. (This book) tells the whole story for the first time, tracing Simonds's family origins and detailing his postwar career as Canada's top military man. The focus, though, is on Simonds's campaigns in World War II. Graham takes us from the rocky shores of Sicily to the fierce fighting in the Dutch polders, examining the military ...
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CANADA 1957-1967: THE YEARS OF UNCERTAINTY AND INNOVATION. THE CANADIAN CENTENARY SERIES NO. 19.

By: Granatstein, J.L.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart: 1986

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 28770

ISBN: 0771035152

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

375 pp, 9 1/4" H. B&w photographs, political cartoons. Signed by author on title page. "In the tenth decade of Canada's confederation, the expansive and unifying post-war boom gave way to rapid change and conflicting choices. These were the years of John Diefenbaker and Lester Pearson, years when Canada's culture, economy, and politics took new directions and the foundations of today's political and social realities were laid. Beginning with a survey of the country in 1957, poised to grasp Diefenbaker's grand 'Vision', the author vividly describes how the Progressive Conservative ...
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SEAPOWER AND STRATEGY.

By: Gray, Colin S. and Barnett, Roger W., editors. (John Gooch, Wayne P. Hughes, Jr., Barry Strauss, Alvin H. Bernstein, Alberto Coll, Robin Ranger, Williamson Murray, Jeffrey G. Barlow, Colin S. Gray, Roger W. Barnett.)

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Annapolis, Maryland, Naval Institute Press: 1989

Seller ID: 12784

ISBN: 0870215795

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

396 pp, 9 1/4" H. Tables and maps. "Indivdual essays provide general theories of maritime strategy, histories of seapower in action from the Peloponnesian wars onward, and contemporary views of the strategic uses of navies in both the West and the East." Contents: Foreword; Introduction; Seapower and Landpower; Maritime Command: Mahan and Corbett; The Strategy-Tactics Relationship; Athens and Sparta; Maritime Strategy and the Punic Wars; England and Spain: 1567-1604; The Anglo-French Wars: 1689-1815; Naval Power in World War I; World War II: Allied and German Naval Strategies;...
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SEAPOWER AND STRATEGY.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Annapolis, Maryland, Naval Institute Press: 1989

Seller ID: 29576

ISBN: 0870215795

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

THE SHAPING OF PEACE: CANADA AND THE SEARCH FOR WORLD ORDER, 1943-1957. VOLUME 2.

By: Holmes, John W.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, University of Toronto Press: 1982

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28434

ISBN: 0802055419

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

443 pp, 9 1/4" H. "The establishment of the United Nations system at the conclusion of the Second World War was followed by a period of disillusion in the late 40s about the prospects of world order. With the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950 there came a regrouping of forces and revised calculations of what was possible. The first volume of 'The Shaping of Peace' described Canadian attitudes and policies towards international institutions as the Second World War ended. This volume is concerned with the developments in the decade after the war, with the changing Canadian concepts ...
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A VIOLENT PEACE: GLOBAL SECURITY AFTER THE COLD WAR.

By: Rogers, Paul and Dando, Malcolm.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Brassey's (UK): 1992

Edition: First English Edition

Seller ID: 14069

ISBN: 0080366945

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

209 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). Contents: Preface; A New World Order?; The Nuclear Arms Race and Global Militarisation; Arms Control and Disarmament; Military Momentum in the 1990s; Proliferation: Nuclear, Biological, Chemical and Conventional; Military Force Projection and the New World Order; Oil and US Security; The Gulf - Crisis into War; The Gulf Conflict and its Implications; New Global Pressures; An Arms Control Agenda for the 1990s; Wider Concepts of Security - Preventing New World Disorder; Notes and Further Reading; Index. Dust jacket has minor wear at top/bottom of flap-folds an...
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A VIOLENT PEACE: GLOBAL SECURITY AFTER THE COLD WAR.

By: Rogers, Paul and Dando, Malcolm.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: London, Brassey's (UK): 1992

Edition: First English Edition

Seller ID: 29360

ISBN: 0080366945

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

209 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). Contents: Preface; A New World Order?; The Nuclear Arms Race and Global Militarisation; Arms Control and Disarmament; Military Momentum in the 1990s; Proliferation: Nuclear, Biological, Chemical and Conventional; Military Force Projection and the New World Order; Oil and US Security; The Gulf - Crisis into War; The Gulf Conflict and its Implications; New Global Pressures; An Arms Control Agenda for the 1990s; Wider Concepts of Security - Preventing New World Disorder; Notes and Further Reading; Index. Book is Fine. Dust jacket has very light edge wrinkling,...
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CANADIAN MILITARY HISTORY. SPRING 2009. VOLUME 18, NUMBER 2.

By: Sarty, Roger, editor. Patrick Brennan; Michael W. Manulak; Jason S. Ridler; Eric Brown; Tim Cook; Bruce Ellis; Ivor Evans.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Waterloo, Ontario, Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University: 2009

Seller ID: 27193

ISBN: 11958472

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good -

80 pp, 11" H (magazine format). B&w photographs, reproductions. Contents: "Completely Worm Out by Service in France": Combat Stress and Breakdown among Senior Officers in the Canadian Corps; Equal Partners, Though Not Of Equal Strength: The Military Diplomacy of General Charles Foulkes and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization; From Nagasaki to Toronto: Omond Solandt and the Defence Research Board's Early Vision of Atomic Wafare, 1945-1947; The Hendershot Brothers in the Great War; Connaught Battery and the Defence of the Atlantic Coast, 1906-1941; Comparison of British and Ame...
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DOUBLE STANDARD: THE SECRET HISTORY OF CANADIAN IMMIGRATION.

By: Whitaker, Reg.

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Lester & Orpen Dennys: 1987

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28353

ISBN: 0886191726

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

348 pp, 9 1/4" H. "In 1986 Canada was awarded the United Nations' Nansen Prize, an award given to the country that best exemplifies compassion to refugees in its immigration policies. But has our immigration policy really been as compassionate as this honour suggests? (This) is the history of Canada's immigration policies from the time of the Second World War, through the troubled years of the Cold War, and into the present - from our notorious treatment of refugees from Hitler's Germany, throughour own McCarthy-like 'witch hunt' for undesirable immigrants, right up to the startling...
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Keyword: North Atlantic Treaty Organization