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Altitude Pub Canada Ltd, 2004. Soft Cover. Good. Book shows moderate wear/ spine tight, pages clean/ covers creased; moderate edge wear/ corners creased/ several page tips creased

The heroic and often hilarious world of the Royal Canadian Air Force. Here is a gathering of stories, anecdotes and cartoons that deals with almost every aspect of life in the RCAF whether it is the escapade of a pilot, the activity of a rigger or an armourer, or the experience of a member of the Women's Division.

Canmore, Ab: Altitude Publishing Co., 2005. New book! This book will be especially fascinating for all readers interested in history, biography, adventure, military/war.. Soft Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 6x9". Military/War.

London: Osprey, 1988. 48 pp, 9 3/4" H. Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, maps, 8 pages of colour uniform studies. Contents: Introduction; Canada and her Army; 1900-14: The Growing Commitment; 1914-18: Attrition; 1939-45: The Global War; 1950-53: United Nations Involvement. Interior - cigarette odour, very light browning to the edges of the pages and the inside edges of the covers, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - light browning to the edges of the text block and to the edges of the covers. . Not Signed. Reprint.. Soft Cover. Good+. Illus. by Mike Chappell, colour plates..

Waterloo, Ontario: Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, 2009. 80 pp, 11" H (magazine format). B&w photographs, maps, reproductions. Contents: To the Last Canadian?: Casualties in 21st Army Group; The Essex Scottish Regiment in Operation Atlantic: What went Wrong?; A Canadian Conscript Goes to War - August 1918: Old Myths Re-examined; Naval Medical Operations at Kingston during the War of 1812; Women Artists and the 1944 Canadian Army Art Exhibition; Fom Mother Country to Far Away Relative: The Canadian-British Military Relationship from 1945; Operational Manoeuvre Group: Operation SOHIL LARAM II, Kandahar Province, February 2008; Canadian Military History Gateway, Department of National Defence. Interior - small faint stain at bottom corner of first hakf of pages, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - very minor edge wear.. Stapled in Wraps. Very Good.

Toronto: Dundurn, 2008. 171 pp, square (8" x 8"). B&w photographs. "A crab boat off Newfoundland catches fire, and a dangerous rescue is undertaken by helicopter. A child goes missing in a New Brunswick forest, and a desperate hunt is mounted. A climber tumbles 70 feet down the side of a mountain in British Columbia, and a dangerous long-line rescue is attempted. A commercial helicopter crashes in Nunavut, and a search and rescue team braves a savage snowstorm to save the pilot. (This book) features the above thrilling accounts and many more from across the country, past and present. Its heroes are to be found in the RCMP, city police forces, the Canadian military, and among all the rescue workers and specialists of the Canadian Coast Guard - volunteers, too, risk injury and even death to help others. Sidebars highlight the equipment search and rescue teams use, how search dogs are trained, how long-line rescues work, how navy divers are making a difference in the deserts of… Read More

Waterloo, Ontario: Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, 2009. 80 pp, 11" H (magazine format). B&w photographs, reproductions. Contents: "Une Permission! C'est bon pour une recrue": Discipline and Illegal Absences in the 22nd (French-Canadian) Battalion, 1915-19; The Royal Military College of Canada and the Education of Officers for the Great War; Military Training in an Academic Environment: The University of Toronto Canadian Officers Training Corps, 1914-1968; "A Unique Art": Canadian Anti-Gas Respirator Production in the Second World War; The Top 10 Most Important Books of Canadian Military History; Passchendaele highlights uncounted casualties; Canada's Soldiers of the South African and First World Wars at Library and Archives Canada. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light crease at fore-edge of rear cover, small area of light scuffing in the title at the top of… Read More

Waterloo, Ontario: Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, 2009. 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 American Areas in Normandy in terms of Fire Support and its Effects (AORG Report No. 292). Interior - very soft bump a top corner of pages, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - light edge wear - a little more on spine, very light crease on front cover at… Read More

Waterloo, Ontario: Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, 2008. 80 pp, 11" H (magazine format). B&w photographs, maps, reproductions. Contents: "Anything but Lovely": The Canadian Corps at Lens in the summer of 1917; Canadian Soldiers in West African Conflicts, 1885-1905; Harry Crerar and an Army for Strategic Effect; Medical Care of American POWs during the War of 1812; Incursion at Howz-e Madad: An Afghanistan Vignette; "War Diaries of the First World War" at Library and Archives Canada. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - tiny crease at bottom corner of front cover - migrates into the first few pages. minor wear at top/bottom of spine. . Stapled in Wraps. Very Good.

Toronto: Vintage, 1996. 348 pp, 7 3/4" H. B&w photographs, reproductions, maps. "Military history and geography explain each other in North America as nowhere else in the world. Award-winning historian John Keegan explores their relationship and examines the battles fought over three centuries between Frenchman and Indian, Royalist and colonist, Union and Confederacy." Interior - minor browning to pages, otherwsie clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - minor browning to edges of text block, very minor rubbing.. Soft Cover. Very Good+.

Ontario-St. Lawrence Development Commission, (Kingston, Ontario), n.d. 25 pp, 11 1/8" H, soft cover (stapled in wraps). B&w photographs, maps, plans, reproductions. A brief illustrated history of Old Fort Henry at Kingston, Ontario, originally printed in the Canadian Geographical Journal. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very minor rubbing. Very Good+.

Waterloo, Ontario: Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, 2008. 84 pp, 11" H (magazine format). B&w photographs, map, reproductions. Contents: Spirited Imperialism: The Formation and Command of the First Canadian Expeditionary Force in South Africa; For King, not Tsar: Identifying Ukrainians in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1918; Toward a Transnational History of World War I; Canada and the First World War: A Canadian War Museum Internet Exhibition; "The POW Will Safely Return!": Second World War Allied and German Propaganda Leaflets; From Alberta to Avion: Private Herbert Peterson, 49th Battalion, CEF; From the Rhine to the Baltic: The Final Operations of The 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, Part 1 - 24 March to 2 April 1945; Internet Forums and Canadian Military History. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor wear at top/bottom of spine.. Stapled in Wraps. Very Good+.

Waterloo, Ontario: Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, 2007. 80 pp, 11" H (magazine format). B&w photographs, maps, reproductions. Contents: The Great Naval Battle of North Point: Myth or Reality?; Trial by Fire: Major-General Christopher Vokes at the Battles of the Moro River and Ortona; Preparing for the Bomb: The Development of Civil Defence Policy in Canada, 1948-1963; Afghanistan: A Glimpse of War - Contemporary History at the Canadian War Museum; Kamerad, tritt ein!: German Trench Culture - An aspect of the Human side of the First World War; The First Use of Poison Gas at Ypres, 1915: A Translation from the German Official History; Sydney F. Wise, 1924-2007: A Personal Recollection. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor wear at top/bottom of spine.. Stapled in Wraps. Very Good+.

More than 250,000 courageous men and women were enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II.  These Canadians fought valiantly in every major air operation from the Battle of Britain to the bombing of Germany.  Thousands lost their lives.  Those who survived to tell their stories were forever changed,.   Here are some of their incredible stories,
Amazing Stories series.

Morrisburg, Ontario: The Ontario St. Lawrence Development Commission. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1960. Single Issue magazine. This vintage 9 by 11 inch , 51 page oversized paperback is in very good collectible condition with light wear and rubbing to covers. Pages have light foxing sporadically throughout. See Photos; A booklet illustrated with photos, maps and drawings of the battle between some 800 Britains and Canadians against four times their number of Americans. ; Photos, Maps and Drawings of the Battle .

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McGraw-Hill Ryerson, Toronto, (1993), Ist edition. 341 pp, large 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. B&w photos. "...exciting narratives (of selected Canadian war heroes) bring to life the gallant and self-sacrificing stories of those who fought first on Canadian soil in the War of 1812, in the Crimea , the Indian Mutiny, the Boer War, in World Wars I and II, and in Korea..." Book is clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Dust jacket has very minor edge wear/rubbing. A clean, bright copy. NF/NF.

Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1997. 270 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). B&w photographs, maps. "Through James Davis's eyes, we see the real face of Canada's army: efficient, technologically advanced - sometimes brutal. The uncompromising opinions Davis has about the strengths and weaknesses of our present-day military are backed up by his own first-hand experience at 'the sharp end' as a frontline soldier. The bungling and politically motivated actions of the Forces' senior ranks and their government masters, he states, chronically compromise the effectiveness of our fighting forces. Davis was at the defence of Sarajevo as centuries-old ethnic emnity between Serbs and Croats exploded into house-by-house guerilla warfare. He was in Rwanda as Hutus and Tutsis struggled for dominance. A former member of Canada's famed Airborne Regiment, Davis relives its emotional, controversial last days following revelations of misconduct by a handful of members in Somalia. The… Read More

Longmans, Green, Toronto, n.d. 134 pp, 8vo (8 3/16" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w photographs. "...tells the story of one of the world's most famous police forces - the Royal Canadian Mounted Police...The opening chapters tell how, under the name Northwest Mounted Police, the Force was formed in 1873, and describes its stirring exploits in the early days of the West. Mr. Spettigue then takes us to the school at Rockcliffe, where recruits...undergo the rigorous training that will fit them for the strenuous duties to come...We are taken on a tour of the fabulous Identification Branch in Ottawa...We visit laboratories where scrapings of blood, samples of hair, or tiny bits of cloth are examined microscopically to provide evidence that may convict or free a suspec t; where bullets are inspected under the comparison microscope to determine whether they were fired from the same gun; where experts can tell what typewriter was used to produce an incriminating letter...we visit the… Read More

London: Osprey, 1985. 48 pp, 9 3/4" H. Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, maps, 8 pages of colour uniform studies. Contents: Introduction; Canada and her Army; 1900-14: The Growing Commitment; 1914-18: Attrition; 1939-45: The Global War; 1950-53: United Nations Involvement. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - tiny bump at the top edge of the front cover.. Not Signed. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Mike Chappell, colour plates..

Toronto: Amethyst, 1978. 221 pp + section of b&w plans, photographs at rear, 8vo (9" H). B&w plans, maps, reproductions throughout text - plans and photographs at rear. "(A)n adventure tale of sweeping grandeur: the personal history of a youth who volunteered for war as a loyal subject of George II when New England rose against the French fortress of Louisburg commanding the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the approaches to Quebec and menacing the Boston fishery. The story is a romance in the true sense: it tells of the fears and awareness of a vast world opening to the mind of a young soldier and mariner early away from home and toughened by the cruelty and challenge of armed conflict and the harsh reality of the elements. The novel is based on a single page of pencil-written journal left behind by a young volunteer from Massachusetts: the author has not been able to determine the boy's name or where he lived but only that he served in Pomeroy's regiment at the capture of… Read More