Death of the Hellships: Prisoners at Sea in the Pacific War
 a bit harsh on the submariners: The hellships of the title were the Japanese transports that carried western prisoners around the Pacific. But a casual reader might be excused for thinking they were American submarines, especially since it's a sub on the [... more]
CDN$37.07
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In the Shadows of War: An American Pilots's Odyssy ...
searing account of life on the run and in Buchenwald: I'd give this book 6 stars if the software permitted! Childers has created a searing account of an American airman's life on the run in occupied France, in the hands of the Gestapo, and in the [... more]
CDN$22.00
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Incident at Muc Wa
The story behind the best Vietnam movie!: If you know the Vietnam movies, you're familiar with the Burt Lancaster classic "Go Tell the Spartans". Well, here's the story it was based on. It's 1964 and a team of U.S. Army "Raiders" ( [... more]
CDN$16.00
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Michael's War: A Story of the Irish Republican Army
a word from the author :): This book is a fiction, though its hero bears some resemblance to my father, Patrick Ford, born 1899 in the County Cork, died 1977 in Arizona--one of the wild geese who populated the far reaches of the world, for the most part [... more]
CDN$26.04
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Last Escape
one of the great atrocities of World War II: In December 1944, some 270,000 American, British, and Commonwealth prisoners were sent on the road so they wouldn't be liberated by the advancing Allied armies. Nichol (himself a PW during the first Gulf War) [... more]
CDN$15.63
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Downfall
From Amazon.com: Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire is an impeccably written analysis of the last months of the Pacific War and the unfolding of the American air campaign over Japan. The story opens with a searing description of the fire- [... more]
CDN$22.50
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In The Shadows Of War: An American Pilot's Odyssey ...
searing account of life on the run and in Buchenwald: I'd give this book 6 stars if the software permitted! Childers has created a searing account of an American airman's life on the run in occupied France, in the hands of the Gestapo, and in the [... more]
CDN$41.95
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The Village
superlative book: This is a wonderful book. It tells the story of 15 marines assigned to defend a hamlet, working with about the same number of Popular Force militiamen. Of that original band, 7 are killed in the first half of the book, most of them in a [... more]
CDN$10.99
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Japan's Longest Day
Unique and Fascinating: This book is probably the most detailed english account of one of the most fascinating events in modern Japanese history: the Japanese government's pained decision to surrender in August 1945 amidst falling atomic bombs. For a [... more]
CDN$29.95
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Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare: The Evolution of ...
a useful study: Given her sub-title, it's probably unfair to fault Biddle for not including Germany and Japan in her study. Still, to read this book 60 years after history's first "thousand-plane" raid (the RAF against Cologne on the night of 30 [... more]
CDN$91.25
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Hitler 1936 To 1945 Nemesis
From Amazon.com: George VI thought him a "damnable villain," and Neville Chamberlain found him not quite a gentleman; but, to the rest of the world, Adolf Hitler has come to personify modern evil to such an extent that his biographers always [... more]
CDN$26.05
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Remains: A Story of the Flying Tigers
Remembering the Forgotten Air Force: The China-Burma-India theatre is the least-documented theatre of WW2. Here's a novel based on history, which educates you about that theatre and period without your even realising it. The background that Dan Ford [... more]
CDN$16.00
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