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MILITARY
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11th Month 11th Day
11th Hour
Joseph Persico |Random House
The last moments of the war before all was quiet on the Western Front
were a frenetic, terrifying series of last pushes and gasps before the
Armistice was signed. Encapsulating the entire war in a single, final
day, Persico takes the reader on a journey through the trenches of
Verdun to the high-flying aces of a new, brutal war.
ISBN-13: 9780375508257 | Hardcover | 456 pp
ISBN-10: 0375508252 | 6x9 | Black and White.....$6.95
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AFTER THE VICTORIANS
A.N. Wilson |Random House
A remarkable study of Britain in the years between 1901 and 1953, when the
mightly empire's power and influence declined. In this remarkable portrait
of an age, which touches on science and technology, art, music, literature,
feminism, and political struggles, we also encounter the characters who
shaped the period, from Churchill and Chamberlain to Noel Coward and Vera
Lynn.
ISBN-13: 9780091794842 | Hardcover | 609 pp
ISBN-10: 0091794846 | 6x9 | Black and White
$7.95
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AMONG
THE DEAD CITIES
A.C. Grayling |Walker
When Nuremberg was scouted in 1945 as a possible site for the Nazi war crime
trials, an American damage survey of Germany described it as being "among
the dead cities" of that country. It was 90% destroyed, its population
decimated, its facilities lost. As a place to put Nazis on trial, it
symbolized the devastation Nazism brought upon Germany.
ISBN-13: 9780802714718 |
ISBN-10: 0802714714 | 6X9 | Black and White Hardcover | 361 pp
$7.95
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"ABANDONED
MILITARY INSTALLATIONS OF CANADA"
(vol
1, ONTARIO)
by
Paul Ozorak
A
complete listing of facilities in action either during or after WW2 that
are now closed.
softcover,
266 pages
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“AGAINST
ALL ODDS”
a National Army Museum Publication, 1990, Hardcover
The
story of the British Expeditionary Force and Dunkirk (33GEN051)
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"ATLAS
OF WORLD WAR II"
by
Richard Natkiel
85
illustrations and 150 maps clarify every engagement of the war.
Hardcover,
Grange Books, 1985, 190 pages
31avi506......$29.95
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"BUNKERS,
BUNKERS EVERYWHERE"
by
Paul Ozorak
A
fascinating look at bunkers, IBM silos, command centres and other
hallmarks of the cold war era.
sofcover,
198 pages
31avi297.......$16.00
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THE CANADIAN MILITARY ATLAS
Mark
Zuehlke & C. Stuart Daniel
Maps and
photos of all Canada's military actions...from the French and Indian
War, through Vimy Ridge, to Kosovo.
Stoddart,
hardcover, 227 pages
regular
$100.
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Canvas
of War
Dean F. Oliver , Laura Brandon J.L. Granatstein |Douglas & McIntyre
This is a stunning visual and historical record of Canada's experience
of war, by such renowned artists as A.Y. Jackson, Arthur Lismer, Mabel
May and Alfred Munnings - and in the Second World War, Alex Colville,
Charles Comfort, and Jack Shadbolt. With excerpts from the artists' and
soldiers' own accounts, they reveal the links between Canada's
experience in both world wars.
Hardcover Art Book |178 pp | ISBN:1550547720
10x10 |Color
33-080.....Original
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“Caxton:
Map of the World” ….27 ½ X 38 ½ (33gen043)…our price $5.00 (CDN)
“Caxton:
Map of Canada and the US”….27 ½ X 38 ½ …..(33gen044)…our price $5.00 (CDN)
“CODE
OF LOVE” by Andro Linklater,
Doubleday, Hardcover, 289 pages
The
true story of two lovers torn apart by WW2…the same war that had brought them
together
33gen064…..Original
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"COLDITZ"
by Henry Chancellor, 2001, William Morrow, 446 pages, hardcover
The untold story of WW II's
Great Escapes.
33gen054.....original
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"Day
of Deceit" Robert B. Stinneitt / Free Press
Did President Franklin
Roosevelt and top political advisors know of a pending attack? What did
we know and when did we know it? This book uncovers the truth about the
attack at Pearl Harbor, and documents the events leading up to the
devastating attack.
Hardcover
| 386 Pages | ISBN 0684853396
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"DAYS
OF VICTORY" by Ted Barris
Courage, sacrifice,
tragedy and glory....more than 300 Canadians tell their stories of World
War Two.
MacMillan, 1995,
Hardcover, 304 pages,...original price.....$29.95
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"DEADLOCK
IN KOREA" by Ted Barris
The story of Canadian
participation in this 1950 "Police Action" that escalated into
a full scale war....the results of which are still felt in today's
world.
MacMillan, 1999,
softcover, 326 pages, photos....original price...$24.95
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DECISIVE BATTLES
John Colvin |Headline
Decisive Battles is a thought-provoking, often controversial book that
highlights how key engagements have profoundly shaped the course of
human history. Here, military historian John Colvin analyzes 20
battles that have been recognizable turning points, and includes 16
pages of photographs.
ISBN-13: 9780755310708 | Hardcover | 332 pp
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Elite
Units of the Third Reich
Tim Ripley |Lewis
This book tells the story of Nazi Germany's elite units. It profiles the
German Army, Air Force, Navy and Waffen-SS units that were in the
vanguard of Hitler's murderous war of conquest, and looks closely at the
men, their weapons, equipment, leaders, tactics, victories and defeats.
With over 100 photographs, this is an illuminating study of the crack
formations of Hitler's military machine.
Hardcover |192 pp | ISBN:1930983166
8x10 |Color
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"THE EMPEROR'S
CODES", by Michael
Smith, 2002, Penguin, 335 pages, paperback
The breaking of Japan's secret
ciphers
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"THE
ENCYCLOPEDIA of WORLD WAR TWO SPIES"
by Peter Kross
Barricade Books,
Hardcover, 383 pages
Fascinating accounts of
all the spy activity, from WW2 into the cold war....and many myths
dispelled
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THE ENCYCLOPEDIA of
COMBAT TECHNIQUES.....31-808.....$14.05
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA of
OUTDOOR SURVIVAL.....31-805.....$9.95
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FATHERLAND
by Frederick Kempe
A personal search for
the new Germany....built on a terrible past
33gen031.....$4.95
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The
First World War - by Robin Prior.....33-103.....$9.95
“GO
TO IT” by
Asa Briggs, The Imperial War Museum, 2000, Hardcover
Ordinary
men and women in Britain working for victory on the home front….lavishly
illustrated. (33gen052)
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“GREAT
MILITARY BLUNDERS” by Goeffrey Regan,
2000, Channel 4 Books
The
big mistakes of military history are all here!...from the Boer War thorough
Goering and Monty…to Agent Orange.(31avi722)
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A
Hanging Offense.....33-104.....$9.95
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History
of Trains, The
Colin Garratt |Chancellor Press
Packed with over 200 exciting illustrations, of the world's most
significant trains from Stephenson's Locomotion No. 1 to the Japanese
Lightning Train, this book covers the entire history of the train and
how the world of rail travel evolved. This book will even educate you
more into the changes that happened, why steam disappeared and some of
the major disasters of our time.
Hardcover |191 pp | ISBN:075370630X
10x11 |Color
original
price.....$47.95.....our price.....$19.95
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HISTORY OF
CANADIAN AIRPORTS by T.M. McGrath
A comprehensive overview
of the third wave of making Canada accessible (after waterways and
railways)
31avi469.....$39.95
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"HORROR IN THE
EAST" by Laurence Rees,2001, De
Capo Press, 160 pages, hardcover
Japan and the atrocities of
World War II>
33gen056.....original
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"THE
ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF WORLD WAR II"
by
Charles Messenger
Superb,
clear and balanced overview, with more than 300 pictures.
Oversized
Hardcover, Salamander Books, 1999, 304 pages
31avi502......$19.95
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"INTREPID'S
LAST CASE" by William
Stevenson
Lyons Press, Softcover,
306 pages, ISBN 1-58574-521-9
The follow up to "A
Man Called Intrepid" carries the story into the fascinating cold
war era.
Our price.....$10.39
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Imperial
War Museum Book Of 1918 Year of Victory
Malcolm Brown |Pan Books
In the spring of 1918, there was fear that Britain might have to
evacuate her troops from the continent and lose the war. In the summer a
great turnaround came about, and in autumn the German armies began to
retreat. In November 1918 the First World War was over. This is a
detailed account of that year told through the authentic voice of a
British soldier.
Paperback |392 pp | ISBN:0330376721
5x7 |Black and White
original
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“The
Imperial War Museum book of the WAR IN ITALY”,
by Field Marshal Lord Carver, Pan, softcover, 350 pages
A
vital contribution to the victory in Europe
33GEN077…..original
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"THE
IMMACULATE INVASION"
by
Bob Shacochis
The
story of the American invasion of Haiti....how war has changed by the
late twentieth century.
Viking,
Hardcover, 1999, 408 pages
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AUDIO BOOK
JACKDAWS
Ken Follett |Penguin
D-Day is approaching. They don't know where or when, but the Germans
know it'll be soon, and for Felicity Clairet the stakes have never been
higher. Charged with crippling communications in Europe before D-Day,
she must pin her hopes on a group of nonprofessionals code-named the
Jackdaws. This is a breathtaking novel set in the most dangerous days of
World War II. Running Time : Approx. 6 hours
Audio Cassette |0 pp | ISBN:0142800015
4x7 |Black and White
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JUNO- CANADIANS AT
D-DAY by Ted Barris.....31-750.....$34.95
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"LAST
DAYS of the REICH" by James
Lucas
Cassell Military, pb,
255 pages
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THE LAST ESCAPE by
John Nichol & Tony Rennell
Viking, Hardcover, 520 pages
By June 1944 there
were hundreds of thousands of American and British prisoners of war in camps
across Nazi-controlled Europe. News of the D-Day landings, heard on secret camp
radios, filled the prisoners with both hope and dread. Amid this confusion and
fear, the POWs were herded from their camps and forced at gunpoint to walk many
hundreds of miles deeper into Germany on what the POWs themselves called the
Death March. In The Last Escape, Gulf War POW and author John Nichol and popular
historian Tony Rennell relate the astonishing story of these unrecognized
heroes. Drawing upon interviews with many surviving veterans who speak here for
the first time, this is an unparalleled account of endurance and courage in
wartime.
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"THE
LAST PARALLEL" by
Martin Russ
A Marine's war
journal....perhaps the best combat report ever written.
Fromm International,
1999, softcover,333 pages
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"The
Long and the Short and the Tall", by Robert Collins, Greystone Books,
134 pages, softcover
An
ordinary airman's war....coming of age in the air force
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“The
Long Road Home” by Fred Cederberg
–The autobiography of a Canadian soldier in Italy in WW2 (31avi512)
original
price $29.95…..our price $8.95
“MacArthur’s
War” by Stanley Weintraub –Korea and
the undoing of an American hero (38biog026)
original
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“A
MAN CALLED INTREPID” by William Stevenson,
1976, Lyons Books, softcover, 486 pages
The
incredible WW2 narrative of the hero whose spy network and secret diplomacy
changed the course of history.
33-114.....our
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"MILITARY
ERRORS of WORLD WAR TWO" by
Kenneth Macksey
Cassell Military, pb,
252 pages
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"MY WAR"
by Andy Rooney, 200, Publick Affairs Books, Paperback, 333 pages
A poignant memoir by a young
journalist who was a witness to history.
33gen057.....Original
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NO TIME OFF FOR
GOOD BEHAVIOUR
by H/E. Woolley
A collection of
light-hearted memories and serious reflections from the author's three and one
half years in a German POW camp.
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"THE NORMANDY
CAMPAIGN" by Victor Brooks, 2002,
De Capo Books, 288 pages, hardcover
From D-Day to the liberation of
Paris
33gen058.....Original
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NO TIME FOR
DREAMS
By Bob Metcalfe
with Jan Buchanan-Redden
A Soldier's Six-Year Journey Through WWII
No Time for Dreams
follows the author through France and Belgium and a desperate escape to Dunkirk
in a bullet-riddled ambulance. After recovering from his war wounds, he survived
the Battle of Britain at its height then embarked on a perilous sea voyage in
the largest convoy ever to leave the UK, being dogged by the infamous Bismarck
and the German U-boats that prowled the high seas. His destination: North
Africa, with its searing heat, scorpions and barren wastes, and the see-saw war
in the Western Desert. His journey continued with the invasion and swift
conquest of Sicily, then the long trek up the Italian boot.
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“ON
THE BATTLEFIELDS” from the archives of Macleans Magazine,
Penguin Books, hardcover, 409 pages
Two World Wars that shaped a nation
33gen063…..original price…..$35.00…..our price…..$8.95
On
the Home Front.....by Mary Jane
Lennon.....31-820.....$25.00
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Operation
Sea Lion
Peter Fleming |Pan Books
With the fall off France, Hitler's attention turned toward Britain. The
invasion and conquest of these islands was essential. Only with Western
Europe totally in Nazi hands could the push eastward to Russia go ahead.
Thus, Operation Sea Lion. This lively study, based both on German and
British sources, examines the military and strategic blunders which led
to the postponements of the assault.
Paperback |334 pp | ISBN:0330420577
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“THE
ORDER OF THE DEATH’S HEAD”,
by Heinz Höhn, Penguin, softcover, 690 pages
The
story of Hitler’s SS
33GEN072…..original
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“Patton’s
Gap” by Richard Rohmer – Mustangs
over Normandy and the Falaise Gap (31avi717)
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“PETAIN’S
CRIME”,
by Paul Webster, Pan, softcover, 329 pages
The
full story of French collaboration in the holocaust
33GEN073…..original
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P.O.W. - Behind
Canadian Barbed Wire.....31-258.....$18.00
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THE RESCUE
by Steven Trent Smith
Wiley & Sons Inc.,
softcover, 322pages
40 Americans trapped in
the Philipines....a set of secret Japanese battle plans...and the
submarine that saved them.
32-065.....$24.95
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"THE SECOND WORLD
WAR" by Martin Gilbert, Holt &
Co., 846 pages, softcover
A History of the entire War, jam
packed into one volume
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the SECOND
WORLD WAR IN THE WEST
Charles Messenger |Cassell
This book illuminates the totality of the Second World War in Europe
both in terms of physical destruction and mobilization of populations.
Starting with what led to the outbreak of war in 1939, this history
covers each of the four major theatres of the war. It also describes the
impact the internal combustion engine had on war: in the air, on land
and at sea. Complete with photographs.
Hardcover |224 pp | ISBN:1552781011
8x10 |Color
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"THE
SECRET WAR AGAINST HANOI Richard
H. Schultz Jr.
Kennedy's and Johnson's
use of spies, saboteurs and covert warriers in North Vietnam.
Harper Collins, 1999,
hardcover, 408 pages
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SS: Hitler's Instrument
of Terror.....31-353.....$19.95
“SIEGFRIED”
by Charles Whiting, Pan, softcover, 268 pages
The
Nazis’ last stand
33GEN074…..original
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"SOLDIER
BOYS" by G.F. McCauley, General
Store Publishing House, Softcover
Six
buddies from a Northern Ontario town join up with the Algonquin Regiment and go
to fight Hitler. Their story captures the adventure, the excitement, the
boredom, the courage and the failure that inevitably characterize the ordinary
soldier's experience of war.
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Spearhead
For Blitzkrieg ...
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SPIES &
ESPIONAGE - A DIRECTORY
Chester Hearn |Thunder Bay Press
Step into the cloak-and-dagger world of the spy, where secret missions, code
names, and undercover operations are all part of the job description.
Uncover the secrets of legendary spies throughout history, from Mata Hari to
Allan Pinkerton.
ISBN-13: 9781592235087 | Hardcover | 448 pp
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“STATION
X” by Michael Smith,
TV Books, hardcover, 247 pages
Decoding
NAZI secrets
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TANK
Patrick Wright |Viking
A fascinating look into how the tank transformed the nature of ground
warfare forever. More than just a military history, Tank is a cultural
history of our dreams and delusions. With comprehensive text and
photographs it follows the tank's extraordinary advance through the
twentieth century - as a practical weapon and also as an overwhelming
symbol of its age.
Hardcover |499 pp | ISBN:0670030708
6x7 |Black and White
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TANKS
of WORLD WAR TWO by Steve
Crawford
All the decisive tanks,
both Allied and Axis...great reference work
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"There
It Is" Les D. Brown / McClelland & Stewart
It's the late 60s. Les
Brown, a young Canadian living in California, has a difficult decision
to make: does he return north to escape the draft, or does he serve his
adopted homeland? He delays, and when his induction date arrives, he
reluctantly reports for duty, hoping they'll give him a non-combat role.
The Army makes him an infantryman and sends him to Vietnam. This is his
compelling, soldier's-eye-view of his tour as a grunt in Vietnam.
Hardcover
| 232 Pages | ISBN 0771016921
originally published at
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TOGETHER
WE STAND
James Holland |Hyperion
It seemed all might be lost in the Middle East, while collapse seemed
inevitable in Russia. Yet at this crucial time, America and Britain began to
work together, and it was this alliance of the weary combatant and nave
newcomer, fighting shoulder to shoulder under shared command for the first
time in North Africa, that would eventually lead to the defeat of the Axis
powers in the west.
ISBN-13: 9781401352530 | Hardcover | 650 pp
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UNDERCOVER
TALES of WORLD WAR II by William B. Breuer
Wiley & Sons Inc,
softcover, 242 pages
Just beneath the surface
of the legendary events of World war II lurks a vast, shadowy
high-stakes realm of espionage and intelligence, where the most
successful operations are the ones we've never heard about.....until
now!
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“THE
WAR OF 1812”,
by Victor Suthren, M&S, softcover, 288 pages
lavishly
illustrated, now a TV documentary
33GEN
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WEREWOLF
-by Charles Whiting The NAZI resistance
movement 1944-45.....31-357.....$7.95
“WHEN
THIS BLOODY WAR IS OVER” by
Max Arthur, Piatkus, Hardcover, 130 pages
Soldier’s
songs of the First World War
33gen078…..original
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"WHEN WE WERE ONE
- Stories of World war II" by W, C.
Heinz, De Capo Press, 262 pages, hardcover
33gen061.....original
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“WHERE
THEY FELL”
by Tim Newark, Barron’s, 2000, Hardcover
A
walker’s guide to the great battlefields of the world, from Hastings to
Normandy and Dien Bien Phu….beautifully illustrated…lots of maps. (33gen053)
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WHISKY AND ICE
C.W. Hunt |Dundurn
Take a trip back to the Prohibition era when the US and Canada were obsessed
with the 'demon liquor' and when Canadian Ben Kerr, renowned 'King of the
Rumrunners' was on the most-wanted list. And that's not all: Kerr also had
to contend with Hamilton crime lords, Rocco and Bessie Perri.
ISBN-13: 9781550022490 | Paperback | 192 pp
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Wild
About Flying - by David Marshall.....31-800.....$14.95
The
Wild Blue.....31-821.....$7.95
“THE
WORLD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LOCOMOTIVES” by Colin Garratt,
Hermes House, Hardcover, 256 pages
A
complete guide to the world’s most fabulous locomotives
33gen065…..Our
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“YANKS”
By John S. D. Eisenhower, Free Press, Hardcover, 352 pages
The
epic story of the American Army in World War 1.
33GEN079…..Original
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D-DAY - THE FIRST 24
HOURS - by Will Fowler.....31-806.....$14.95
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