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Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1997
Hardcover. 160 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 160 pages. ENG
Condition: FINE / VERY GOOD
Rear dust jacket flap creased.
vii, 160 p. : ill., maps. Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-158) and index.
Account of the Canadian garrison sent to defend Hong Kong in December 1941, which fought until overwhelmed and then endured years of brutal Japanese captivity.
Toronto: Stoddart, 1998
Hardcover. 225 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 225 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD / VERY GOOD
Light shelfwear. Remainder dot to lower edge of text block.
2nd revised edition.
Role of P-51 Mustangs in the Normandy campaign and the controversy over the Allied failure to close the Falaise Gap.
New York: Henry Holt, 1992
Hardcover. 350 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 350 pages. ENG
Condition: FINE / NEAR FINE
Slight shelfwear.
xiii, 350 p. : ill. Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-336) and index.
Castle, 2000
Hardcover. 295 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 295 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD / VERY GOOD
Slight spine slant.
Account of the German blitzkrieg campaign in the West in 1940, from the Manstein plan through the fall of France and the evacuation at Dunkirk.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008
Hardcover. 368 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 368 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD / VERY GOOD
Light shelfwear.
x, 368 p. : ill. Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-353) and index.
A veteran New York Times war correspondent's ground-level account of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, told through the people he met and the things he witnessed.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1999
Hardcover. 259 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 259 pages. ENG
Condition: FINE / FINE
Clean, unworn copy. No writing or markings. Binding is sound and tight.
James Houston's account of his years living on the Queen Charlotte Islands, exploring the Haida landscape, people, and culture.
St. Catharines, ON: Vanwell Pub., 2002
Hardcover. 335 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 335 pages. ENG
Condition: NEAR FINE / NEAR FINE
Slightly crumpled at top edge of spine.
xii, 335 p. : ill. Discography: p. 263-264.
Malabar, FL: Krieger Pub. Company, 2007
Hardcover. 203 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 203 pages. ENG
Condition: FINE
Clean, unworn copy. No writing or markings. Binding is sound and tight.
xv, 203 p. : ill. Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-193) and index.
New York: Penguin Press, 2010
Hardcover. 284 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 284 pages. ENG
Condition: FINE / NEAR FINE
Slight edgewear to dust jacket.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-277) and index.
Examines four fish, salmon, sea bass, cod, and tuna, as a way of understanding the global ocean fish crisis and the choices facing consumers, fishermen, and policymakers.
London: Grub Street, 2005. First edition
Hardcover. 192 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 192 pages. ENG
Condition: FINE / FINE
Clean, unworn copy. No writing or markings. Binding is sound and tight.
192 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps. Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-184) and index.
London: Faber and Faber, 2003
Hardcover. 351 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 351 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD / VERY GOOD
Pages are tanned. Dust jacket is slightly crumpled at top edge of spine.
xiv, 351 p. : ill. (some col.), maps. Includes bibliographical references (p. 332-336) and index.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2000. First English language edition
Hardcover. 341 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 341 pages. ENG
Condition: FINE / VERY GOOD
Dust jacket is slightly worn at top edge of spine.
341 p. : map. Includes bibliographical references (p. 340-341).
New York: Old Town Books, 1989. Reprint
Hardcover. 510 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 510 pages. ENG
Condition: FINE / FINE
Clean, unworn copy. No writing or markings. Binding is sound and tight.
Account of the Great Irish Famine of 1845-49, which killed one million people and drove hundreds of thousands to emigrate.
Toronto: Collins, 1989
Hardcover. 274 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 274 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD / VERY GOOD
Light shelfwear.
Toronto: Macmillan Canada, 1999. First edition
Hardcover. 326 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 326 pages. ENG
Condition: FINE / FINE
Clean, unworn copy. No writing or markings. Binding is sound and tight.
Includes index.
Account of the Canadian experience in the Korean War, covering the battles at Kapyong and on the Hook, the politics of a limited war, and the veterans who served.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007
Hardcover. 321 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 321 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD / VERY GOOD
Light shelfwear.
A long friendship between two women fractures under the weight of different life choices and a crisis that forces each to confront what they have been to each other.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1987. First edition
Hardcover. 343 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 343 pages. ENG
Condition: FINE / NEAR FINE
Dust jacket is yellowing a bit at edges.
343 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. Includes index.
First volume of Pierre Berton's autobiography, covering his Yukon childhood and his early career as a journalist in Vancouver and Toronto.
New York: Bloomsbury, 2005
Hardcover. 160 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 160 pages. ENG
Condition: FINE / NEAR FINE
A few faint smudges to dust jacket.
Includes index.
Osprey, 2008
Hardcover. 280 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 280 pages. ENG
Condition: FINE / FINE
Clean, unworn copy. No writing or markings. Binding is sound and tight.
How military slang, terminology, and inventions entered civilian life, from 'blockbuster' to 'deadline' to 'Jeep.'
Arcturus, 2010
Hardcover. 128 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 128 pages. ENG
Condition: FINE / FINE
Clean, unworn copy. No writing or markings. Binding is sound and tight.