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WORLD AIRCRAFT: COMMERCIAL, 1935-1960.

By: Angelucci, Enzo and Matricardi, Paolo.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Chicago, Rand McNally: 1979

Seller ID: 16187

ISBN: 528882066

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

317 pp, small 8vo (7 1/2" H). Profusely illustrated in color and b&w with drawings, profiles, insignia, reproductions of posters. Contents: United States; Great Britain; USSR; France; Italy; Germany; Sweden; Japan; Holland; Canada; Poland; Czechoslovakia; Romania; Spain; Argentina; Australia; Switzerland; People's Republic of China; Major Commercial Aircraft; Civil Aviation Registration Letters - 1960; Insignia of the Major Airlines in 1960; Principal Airports of the World - 1960; Engines. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - book lightly cocked, very l...
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STORMS OF CONTROVERSY: THE SECRET AVRO ARROW FILES REVEALED.

By: Campagna, Palmiro.

Price: $18.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Stoddart: 1992

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 22683

ISBN: 0773726497

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

228 pp, 8vo (9 1/4" H). B&w photographs. "(R)eveals there was much more to the scrubbing of the sophisticated Arrow than design flaws, cost overruns and obsolescence, the reasons given by federal government officials to justify their decision. Clearly, step-by-step, using never-before-released documents concerning the Arrow, Campagna details a political web of intrigue among the Tory government, the Canadian and American military, and the CIA." Minor wrinkling at bottom of spine. Dust jacket has minor edge wrinkling.
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STORMS OF CONTROVERSY: THE SECRET AVRO ARROW FILES REVEALED.

By: Campagna, Palmiro.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Stoddart: 1992

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28816

ISBN: 0773726497

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

228 pp, 8vo (9 1/4" H). B&w photographs. "(R)eveals there was much more to the scrubbing of the sophisticated Arrow than design flaws, cost overruns and obsolescence, the reasons given by federal government officials to justify their decision. Clearly, step-by-step, using never-before-released documents concerning the Arrow, Campagna details a political web of intrigue among the Tory government, the Canadian and American military, and the CIA." Previous owner's name, date, signature and place in unk on free front endpaper; minor wrinkling at bottom of spine. Dust jacket has min...
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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 LIFE OF LESTER PEARSON. VOLUME ONE: SHADOW OF HEAVEN, 1897-1948. VOLUME TWO: THE WORLDLY YEARS, 1949-1972. (VOLUMES I & II).

By: English, John.

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Lester & Orpen Dennys: 1989

Edition: First Editions

Seller ID: 28713

ISBN: 0886191653

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

414 pp, 473 pp, 9 1/4" H - 2 volume set. B&w photographs. 'Shadow of Heaven' - ISBN 0886191653 - published 1989. 'The Worldly Years' - ISBN 0394227298 - published 1992. "Lester Pearson - Canada's 14th prime minister, and foremost diplomat - was a man of deep and passionate convictions. His vision of Canada as a force for international peace, mediation, and good will helped redefine our view of ourselves. But how did this seemingly mild and easy-going man develop such a powerful and unswerving vision - and how did he win the political clout to put his beliefs into practice?" 'S...
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SHADOW OF HEAVEN: THE LIFE OF LESTER PEARSON. VOLUME ONE: 1897-1948.

By: English, John.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Lester & Orpen Dennys: 1989

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28889

ISBN: 0886191653

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

414 pp, 9 1/4" H. B&w photographs. "Lester Pearson - Canada's 14th prime minister, and foremost diplomat - was a man of deep and passionate convictions. His vision of Canada as a force for international peace, mediation, and good will helped redefine our view of ourselves. But how did this seemingly mild and easy-going man develop such a powerful and unswerving vision - and how did he win the political clout to put his beliefs into practice? In this formidable and fascinating first volume, John English casts new light on the private and publice life of this remarkable Canadian." ...
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ALWAYS A STRATHCONA.

By: Fraser, W.B.

Price: $55.00 USD

Publisher: Calgary, Alberta, Comprint: 1986

Edition: Second Printing

Seller ID: 3614

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

252 pp, 9 1/4" H. B&w photographs, colour uniform studies, maps. A history of the Regiment from its inception in 1885 to the mid-1970s. Contents: Foreword; Battle Honours; Introduction; Strathcona's Horse; Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians); The Outbreak of the First World War; The Search for Mobility; Moreuil Wood; Canada's Hundred Days; The Long Armistice; Wartime Training and Service; Italy; Melfa River Crossing; Up the Italian Boot; To Northern Europe; Peace and War; Keeping the Peace; Genealogy; Chronological Historical Outline; Honorary Appointments; Commanding Officers a...
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ALWAYS A STRATHCONA.

By: Fraser, W.B.

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: Calgary, Alberta, Comprint: 1986

Edition: Second Printing

Seller ID: 29330

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good -

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

LIBERATION MISSION OF THE SOVIET ARMED FORCES IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR.

By: Grechko, A.A., Marshal of the Soviet Union, edited and with Preface by. Translated from the Russian by David Fidlon.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Moscow, Progress Publishers: 1979

Edition: Second Printing

Seller ID: 12960

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

446 pp, 8vo (8 1/8" H). B&w photographs. "This is a book about the Soviet Armed Forces which fought heroically to defend the gains of the October Revolution and to save the Soviet people from being enslaved by nazism. They suffered enormous losses but conscientiously fulfilled their duty. During the war the Soviet Army fought gallantly for the freedom of other peoples. It rendered great assistance to many nations who had been suffering under nazi rule in deciding their destinies, and played the major part in routing nazi Germany and militarist Japan. The last chapter is devoted to the...
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THE WORLD'S GREAT ARTILLERY: FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE PRESENT DAY.

By: Halberstadt, Hans.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Hoo, Kent, Grange: 2002

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 29469

ISBN: 184013478X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

176 pp, 12 1/4" H. Profusely illustrated with b&w and colour photographs, drawings, reproductions. "(B)egins with the earliest pieces of Western artillery that were little more than iron tubes firing stone shot. Over the next few centuries the guns became more mobile and more powerful, influencing the course of the battles in which they were involved. Muzzle loaders reached their apogee in the Napoleonic wars and the American Civil War during the nineteenth century. By the outbreak of World War I in 1914, breech-loaded guns were the standard, and weapons of such large calibres wer...
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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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ARMORED TRAINS OF THE SOVIET UNION 1917-1945.

By: Kopenhagen, Wilfried. Translated by David Johnston.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Atglen, PA, Schiffer Military/Aviation History: 1996

Seller ID: 24561

ISBN: 0887409172

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good

48 pp, 11" H. Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, drawings/diagrams, tables. Contents: Foreword; Bibliography; Introduction; The Standard Armor Train Remains the Same Until the Second World War; Developments in the 1920s and 1930s; PB-43 - One of the Final Designs; Postwar Advantages and Disadvantages of Armored Trains; Special Anti-Aircraft Armored Trains; Railway Guns - Standard and Improvised; Technical Data of Several Soviet Railway Guns; Armored Cars on Rails and Armored Motor Carriages; Weapon Type. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - one...
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THE CHRONOLOGICAL ATLAS OF WORLD WAR TWO. (WORLD WAR II)

By: Messenger, Charles.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Macmillan: 1989

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 29289

ISBN: 0025843915

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

255 pp, 11 3/4" H. Over 200 maps/battle plans in shades of black, white and red. "(T)his book provides a continuous, chronological narrative, linking the theatres and showing how each affected the others, and the way in which the protagonists were forced to adjust the deployment of armies and resources between them. Each two-page spread describes and maps a particular phase in the conflict, linking its position in the order of events to previous and subsequent topics. Graphic keys supply at-a-glance locations in time and place, while a cursor bar shows the phase of the overall conf...
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RIESLING. GUIDES TO GRAPE VARIETIES SERIES.

By: Pigott, Stuart. Series editor, Harry Eyres.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Viking: 1991

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 16567

ISBN: 0670824887

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

219 pp, 8vo, (8 1/4" H). Map endpapers, b&w maps. "Ranging in taste from the light and dry to the rich, sweet-sour dessert wines, Rieslings are, at their best, wines of great finesse and subtlety, with considerable aging potential. this volume is an ideal introduction and compantion to a grape variety that produces some of the most delicious wines in the world. (It is part of a) unique series (that) looks at each of the major grape varieties and assesses wines made all over the world from that variety. The focus is primarily on flavour and quality. Each volume includes background...
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MARXISM-LENINISM ON WAR AND ARMY.

By: Translated from the Russian by Donald Danemanis.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Moscow, Progress: 1972

Edition: First Printing

Seller ID: 29730

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

431 pp, 8 1/8" H. Light gray cloth with red & black lettering on spine and front board. Chapter headings: Introduction; War as a Socio-Political Phenomenon; The Social Character and Types of Wars in the Contemporary Epoch; Wars in Defence of the Socialist Motherland; The Armed Forces of the Capitalist Countries. Specific Features of the Armies of the Young National States; The Armed Forces of the Socialist States; The Military Power of the State in Contemporary Conditions; Military Potential; The Marxist-Leninst Teaching on War and Methodological Problems of Soviet Military History; Conc...
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Keyword: USSR