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The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia
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New York: W.W. Norton, 2004
Hardcover. 849 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD / VERY GOOD
Spine is a bit crumpled at lower edge.
Comparative study of Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia, examining the similarities and differences of the two totalitarian systems and what sustained them.
Back to the Front: An Accidental Historian Walks the Trenches of World War 1
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Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1996. First edition
Hardcover. 205 pages. ENG

Condition: FINE / FINE
Clean, unworn copy. No writing or markings. Binding is sound and tight.
To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914 - 1919
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Mariner Books / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012
Softcover. 448 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD
Remainder mark to top edge of text block.
Account of the First World War that interweaves the stories of those who fought with those who opposed the war, examining the conflict between loyalty and conscience in Britain.
Future: Tense: The Coming World Order
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Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2004
Softcover. 254 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD
Several small wrinkles to front cover.
Gwynne Dyer's analysis of the post-9/11 world order and the strategic choices that will define whether America remains the sole superpower.
Military Errors of World War Two
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Cassell, 1999
Softcover. 251 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD+
Pages are tanned.
Analysis of the most significant military errors committed by commanders on both sides during the Second World War.
Not Mentioned in Despatches: The Memoir of Fred Bagnall, 14th Battalion, C.E.F. 1914 - 1917
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Ottawa: CEF Books, 2005
Softcover. 160 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD
Several pages with folded corners.
Chickamauga, and Other Civil War Stories
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New York: Delta, 1993
Softcover. 241 pages. ENG

Condition: GOOD+
Faint spine crease. Pages are tanned.
The Venus Fixers: The Remarkable Story of the Allied Monuments Officers Who Saved Italy's Art During World War II
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Picador, 2010
Softcover. 308 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD
Pages are tanned.
Ignorant Armies: Sliding into War in Iraq
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McClelland & Stewart, 2003
Softcover. 189 pages. ENG

Condition: FINE
Clean, unworn copy. No writing or markings. Binding is sound and tight.
Gwynne Dyer's account of the diplomatic failures and decision-making breakdowns that led the US-led coalition into the Iraq War.
The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme
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Pimlico, 1992
Softcover. 352 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD
Faint spine crease. Pages starting to tan.
The British Neptune, or a History of The Royal Navy From The Earliest Periods to The Present Time
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London: Richard Phillips, 1807
Hardcover. 490 pages. ENG

Condition: GOOD
Brown leather with red leather spine label and faded gilt title. Frontis + plates + foldout map are all complete. Some sections slightly displaced but still tight. Spotting to edges of text block, stains to endpapers and first few pages. 490 pages + foldout map + 6 pages of publisher ads at back.
Canada and National Service
Colonel William Hamilton Merritt
Canada and National Service
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Toronto: Macmillan, 1917. First edition
Hardcover. 247 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD / POOR
Light shelfwear. Book is sound, square and tight. Hinges are strong. A few spots of foxing to pages. Dust jacket is missing a large section at top of spine, small section at bottom of spine, chipping to edges, sticker shadow to upper corner, and has water spots to spine. Complete split to fold of dust jacket spine has been tacked together on reverse with archival tissue tape.
Wartime argument for compulsory national military service in Canada, published in 1917 at the height of the conscription crisis. Merritt was president of the Canadian Defence League and a prominent advocate for compulsory military service. He died of influenza in October 1918, weeks before the armistice, having lived to see both the conscription he championed and the bitter French-English divisions it provoked. The town of Merritt, British Columbia is named after him.
Comanche Six: Company Commander, Vietnam
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Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1991. Book club edition
Hardcover. 254 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD / GOOD
Lower edge of spine is a bit crumpled. Dust jacket is lightly worn at tips, shows a faint dampstain to reverse of spine.
Memoir of four tours of duty in Vietnam between 1962 and 1973
The Lady Be Good: Mystery Bomber of World War II
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Fallbrook, CA: Aero, 1982. Book club edition
Hardcover. 203 pages. ENG

Condition: FINE / VERY GOOD
Dust jacket spine is a bit faded.
Account of the discovery of the B-24 Liberator "Lady Be Good," which disappeared over the Libyan desert in 1943 and was not found until fifteen years later.
The Winter War: The Soviet Attack on Finland, 1939-1940
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Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1992
Softcover. 176 pages. ENG

Condition: GOOD
Corners are a bit worn, covers creased. Previous owner's name on first page.
Account of the 105-day Winter War of 1939-40, in which Finland resisted a Soviet invasion with unexpected tenacity.
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
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Simon & Schuster, 1995
Softcover. 759 pages. ENG

Condition: NEAR FINE
Pages are slightly tanned.
Pulitzer Prize for History 1995
The Fighters: Americans in Combat in Afghanistan and Iraq
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Simon & Schuster, 2018. First edition
Hardcover. 374 pages. ENG

Condition: FINE / FINE
Clean, unworn copy. No writing or markings. Binding is sound and tight.
Six American soldiers' experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq, traced from enlistment through combat and its long aftermath, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist.
The Town That Died: The True Story of the Greatest Man-Made Explosion before Hiroshima
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London: Souvenir Press, 1962. First edition
Hardcover. 192 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD / VERY GOOD
Spotting to top edge of text block. Dust jacket is slightly worn at folds, worn at top of spine.
Account of the 1917 Halifax Explosion.
No Clear Flight Plan, Counterinsurgency and Aerospace Power (Silver Dart Canadian Aerospace Studies, volume IV)
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Winnipeg: Centre for Defence and Security Studies, University of Manitoba, 2008
Softcover. 240 pages. ENG

Condition: GOOD
Rubbed at folds, shelfwear. Spine is lightly creased.
The Child Across the River
Giulietta d'Alessandro
The Child Across the River
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New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958. First edition
Hardcover. 209 pages. ENG

Condition: GOOD / GOOD
Foxing to dust jacket, covers, endpapers. Dust jacket has multiple short edge tears and is a bit smudged.
Memoir of civilian life in Italy during the Second World War.