Ortona: Canada’s Epic World War II Battle
A masterful retelling one of the major victories of Canadian troops over the German army’s elite division during WWII.
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Out of the Shadows: Canada in the Second World War
First published in 1977 this accessible general overview of Canada’s contribution to the Second World War and of the war’s effect on Canada’s evolution. This revised edition incorporates new information, particularly in the realms...
Passchendaele: Canada’s Triumph and Tragedy on the Fields of Flanders
This fully-illustrated, easily-accessible, account of the battle of Passchendaele presents the background and details of Canada’s coming of age in The Great War. During WWI, the battle for the tiny Belgium town Passchendaele was...
A Soldier’s View: The Personal Photographs of Canadians at War 1939-1945
Thousands of Canadians were moved by Testaments of Honour. Now, with A Soldier’s View, Blake Heathcote opens his extensive archive of photos, rarely before published or seen, to share with us the face of...
At the Sharp End Volume One: Canadians Fighting the Great War 1914-1916
At the Sharp End covers the harrowing early battles of World War One, when tens of thousands, then hundreds of thousands, died, before the generals and soldiers found ways to break the terrible stalemate...
Juno Beach: Canada’s D-Day Victory: June 6, 1944
Drawing on personal diaries as well as military records, Juno Beach: Canada’s D-Day Victory: June 6, 1944 dramatically depicts Canada’s contribution to the most critical Allied battle of World War II. Acclaimed military historian...
Shock Troops Canadians Fighting The Great War 1917-18
Shock Troops follows the Canadian fighting forces during the titanic battles of Vimy Ridge, Hill 70, Passchendaele, and the Hundred Days campaign. Through the eyes of the soldiers who fought and died in the...
Terrible Victory: First Canadian Army and the Scheldt Estuary Campaign: September 13 – November 6, 1944
Mark Zuehlke is an expert at narrating the history of life on the battlefield for the Canadian army during World War II. In Terrible Victory, he provides a soldiers-eye-view account of Canada’s bloody liberation...
The Gothic Line: Canada’s Month of Hell in World War II Italy
Like an armor-toothed belt across Italy’s upper thigh, the Gothic Line was the most fortified and fiercely defended position the German army had yet thrown in the path of the Allied forces. On August...
The Last Good War : An Illustrated History of Canada In the Second World War – 1939-1945
The history of Canada in the second world war.
