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Canada's past is rich with high-flying adventures - whether it's pilots fighting in the skies or the King of the Rumrunners fleeing the feds! Read their stories in this two-book collection. • Dancing in the Sky: The Royal Flying Corps in Canada - Dancing in the Sky is the first complete telling of the First World War fighter pilot training initiative established by the British in response to losses occurring in European skies in 1916. A valuable...
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Tras la I Guerra Mundial y al centro de fuertes tensiones políticas, Berlín se convierte en un foco de creatividad y transgresión
El Berlín de entreguerras fue un hervidero artístico. Y su epicentro se situaba en el Romanisches Café. No es extraño que las visitas guiadas de la época se detuvieran a sus puertas y lo calificaran como «el olimpo de las artes inútiles, la sede de la bohemia berlinesa». Los visitantes podían encontrarse, con...
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The loss of two British ships crammed with American soldiers bound for the trenches of the First World War brought the devastation of war directly to the shores of the Scottish island of Islay.
The sinking of the troopship Tuscania by a German U-Boat on 5 February 1918 was the first major loss of US troops in in the war. Eight months after the people of Islay had buried more than 200 Tuscania dead, the armed merchant cruiser Otranto collided with...
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This early work by Henry George Noble was originally published in 1915 and we are now republishing it as part of our WWI Centenary Series. 'The New York Stock Exchange in the Crisis of 1914' is as essay on the economic effects of the onset of World War One. The work details the period of suspension of the stock exchange and its reopening and elucidates the lessons to be learned from the crisis. This book is part of the World War One Centenary series;...
1845) Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation
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Winner of the Everett Family Jewish Book of the Year Award (a National Jewish Book Award) and the RUSA Sophie Brody Medal.
In Like Dreamers, acclaimed journalist Yossi Klein Halevi interweaves the stories of a group of 1967 paratroopers who reunited Jerusalem, tracing the history of Israel and the divergent ideologies shaping it from the Six-Day War to the present.
Following the lives of seven young members from the 55th Paratroopers Reserve Brigade,...
1846) The good German: a novel
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An alternate history of what might have happened in World War II had Hitler been assassinated.
1847) The Commanders: The Leadership Journeys of George Patton, Bernard Montgomery, and Erwin Rommel
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From an acclaimed military historian, the interlocking lives of three of the most important and consequential generals in World War II
Born in the two decades prior to World War I, George Patton, Bernard Montgomery, and Erwin Rommel became among the most recognized and successful military leaders of the 20th century. However, as acclaimed military historian Lloyd Clark reveals in his penetrating and insightful braided chronicle of their lives, they...
1848) The Great Boer War
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The Crock of Gold (1912), one of three original novels by James Stephens, is a work only a master of fiction and folklore could imagine. Taking up the major philosophical and psychological concerns of the early-twentieth century-over a decade before works by T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf, among others, would cement literary Modernism's place in history-Stephens' novel is a groundbreaking and important work.
The text centers on the Philosopher...
1849) Dear Miss Kopp
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Kopp sisters novels volume 6
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The indomitable Kopp sisters are tested at home and aboard in this warm and witty tale of wartime courage and camaraderie.
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New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini returns with The Women's March, an enthralling historical novel of the woman's suffrage movement inspired by three courageous women who bravely risked their lives and liberty in the fight to win the vote.
Twenty-five-year-old Alice Paul returns to her native New Jersey after several years on the front lines of the suffrage movement in Great Britain. Weakened from imprisonment and hunger strikes,...
1851) A perfect explanation
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Enid Campbell-- granddaughter of the 8th Duke of Argyll, of Inveraray Castle-- grew up surrounded by servants, wanting for nothing except love. But when her brother died in the First World War, a new heir was needed, and it was up to Enid to provide it.
1852) 1914: History in an Hour
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Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. In 1914 the world changed. Europe's great powers were dragged, one by one, into a war by Serbian conflict which affected very few of them directly. At least it would resemble the short sharp battles of the previous century, many thought—fought with military bands, horsemen, and swift victories. But 1914 proved to be different, a watershed, as old notions of war were trampled in the mud. '1914:...
1853) The Velvet Sky
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The Velvet Sky is a creative nonfiction biography by Cherie Battista who combines field research, family history, and fiction to piece together her Great Uncle Stephen Duckhouse's life. He shares his story with his sister in spirit, Annie, who guides him throughout the story.
Stephen Duckhouse was born in 1897 in Birmingham, England and in 1910, Stephen and his brother Albert immigrated to Canada as Home Children, poor and orphaned children sent...
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Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the events of the Battle of the Marne in next to no time with this concise guide.
50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the Battle of the Marne. After the First World War broke out in 1914, the German army secured a series of early victories and advanced almost as far as Paris. However, a number of mistakes on the German side allowed the Allies to obtain a decisive victory at the...
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The atrocities committed during the Nazi era are a dark stain on human history. Among the many horrors of this period were the medical experiments conducted on concentration camp prisoners by Nazi doctors. One of the most notorious of these doctors was Carl Clauberg, an expert in gynecology who was tasked with developing a method for sterilizing women quickly and inexpensively. Clauberg's experiments were carried out with a callous disregard for human...
1856) Not So Quiet: A Novel
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First published in London in 1930, Not So Quiet... (on the Western Front) describes a group of British women ambulance drivers on the French front lines during World War I, surviving shell fire, cold, and their punishing commandant, "Mrs. Bitch." The novel takes the guise of an autobiography by Smith, pseudonym for Evadne Price. The novel's power comes from Smith's outrage at the senselessness of war, at her country's complacent patriotism, and her...
1857) Joe's place
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It's 1919. Corporal Joe Barlow returns from the Great War to his home in Oak Tree Place hoping only for peace and order, but this is denied him as he finds himself sole carer for this little sister Ruth and at odds with his widowed aunt who fights to have Ruth live with her.
But Joe prevails and his sense of achievement is enhanced when he surprisingly wins the affections of Lydia- beautiful, capricious and entirely out of his league.
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The story of the World War I fighter pilot the Red Baron himself sought to emulate ...
German air ace Oswald Boelcke was a national hero during World War I. He was the youngest captain in the German air force, decorated with the Pour le Mérite while still only a lieutenant, and credited with forty aerial victories at the time of his death.
Becoming a pilot shortly before the outbreak of the war, Boelcke established his reputation on the Western...
1859) Skis in the Art of War
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K. B. E. E. Eimeleus was ahead of his time with his advocacy of ski training in the Russian armed forces. Employing terminology never before used in Russian to describe movements with which few were familiar, Skis in the Art of War gives a breakdown of the latest techniques at the time from Scandinavia and Finland. Eimeleus's work is an early and brilliant example of knowledge transfer from Scandinavia to Russia within the context of sport.
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1860) The Wild Year
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Giving you a glimpse into World War 1 and the endeavors that followed, this autobiography and collection of memoirs are written through the eyes of an infantry soldier as he navigates war, abandonment, betrayal, loss, and love.
Beginning in England, Robert shares his inspirational story demonstrating what life was like during The Great War.
From early childhood memories to Navy adventures, joining the Australian Imperial Forces, everyman to France,...
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