Art Global, 1996 - 236 p. ISBN10: 2920718509 ISBN13: 9782920718500
(eng)
Volume 2 in a three-volume work that covers nine centuries of
Canada's rich military history, from Amerindians, Vikings, and
Basques to the Siege of Quebec, the American Revolution, and on
through the world wars to the U.N. missions of the late 20th
century. The book includes extensive descriptions of forts and
barracks, uniforms, weapons, and architectural remains.
Chartrand Rene. Canadian Military Heritage, Volume 2, 1755-1871
Смотрите также
Auger F.M. On the Brink of Civil War: The Canadian Government and the Suppression of the 1918 Quebec Easter Riots
The Canadian Historical Review, Volume 89, Number 4, December 2008, pp. 503-540 (Article) Published by University of Toronto Press This article analyzes the Canadian government’s use of military force to suppress the anti-conscription Easter Riots that occurred in Quebec City between 28 March and 1 April 1918. The riots demonstrated French-Canadian dissatisfaction with the national war effort and the introduction of conscription, and exacerbate...
Bernier Serge. Canadian Military Heritage, Volume 3, 1872-2000
Art Global, 2000 - 248 p. ISBN10: 2920718517 ISBN13: 9782920718517 (eng) Volume 3 in a three-volume work that covers nine centuries of Canada's rich military history, from Amerindians, Vikings, and Basques to the Siege of Quebec, the American Revolution, and on through the world wars to the U.N. missions of the late 20th century. The book includes extensive descriptions of forts and barracks, uniforms, weapons, and architectural remains.
Chartrand Rene. Canadian Military Heritage, Volume 1, 1000-1754
Art Global, 2001 - 231 p. ISBN10: 2920718495 ISBN13: 9782920718494 (eng) An epic drama with a host of actors, Amerindians, Vikings, Basques, French, English. Seven centuries of stirring adventure played out both at sea and on a continent whose vastness beggared the imagination of the Europeans who had come here. A common destiny pursued at Versailles, Quebec, Louisburg, Boston and Niagara. The author, who is Chief Curator of Historic Sites with...
Copp Terry. Fields of Fire: The Canadians in Normandy
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division, 2003 - 392 p. ISBN10: 0802037305 ISBN13: 9780802037305 (eng) Fields of Fire offers a stunning reversal of accepted military history. Terry Copp challenges and refutes the conventional view that the Canadian contribution to the Battle of Normandy was a 'failure': that the allies won only through the use of 'brute force,' and that the Canadian soldiers and commanding officers were essenti...
Granatstein J.L. The Generals. The Canadian Army’s Senior Commanders in the Second World War
Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2005 - 370 р. Product Description: First published in 1993, The Generals: The Canadian Army's Senior Commanders In The Second World War is the award-winning, classic collective biography of the Canadian army's leaders during the second World War, and the only book of its kind to date. Written by Canadian military history expert J. L. Granatstein, The Generals scrutinizes the nature of the Canadian army over...
Johnston William Cameron. War of Patrols: Canadian Army Operations in Korea (Studies in Canadian Military History)
Univ of British Columbia Press, 2003 - 426 p. ISBN10: 0774810084 ISBN13: 9780774810081 (eng) The extended peace the world anticipated following the decisive Allied victory in the Second World War was abruptly shattered in June 1950 by the invasion of South Korea by communist North Korea. Responding to a United Nations’ call to assist the South Korean regime, Canada deployed an 8000-man brigade to the peninsula to fight as part of an American-led...
Knowles Valerie J. Strangers At Our Gates: Canadian Immigration and Immigration Policy, 1540-1997
Dundurn Press, 1997. - 240 p. ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1550022695 ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781550022698 Immigrants and immigration have always been central to Canadians' perception of themselves as a country and as a society. In this crisply written history, Valerie Knowles describes the different kinds of immigrants who have settled in Canada, and the immigration policies that have helped to define the character of Canadian immigrants over the centuries. Key pol...
Murray Tom. Rails Across Canada: The History of Canadian Pacific and Canadian National Railways
Voyageur Press, 2011 - 320 p. ISBN10: 0760340080 ISBN13: 9780760340080 (eng) To be given an opportunity to write about Canadian Pacific Railway is a great privilege. It is, justifiably, one of the best-documented companies in North America, and my bookshelves have been groaning under the weight of the books written by others about its history. I am grateful to all of them for providing material for me to draw on. I hope that readers who are not...
Pigott Peter. Wings Across Canada: An Illustrated History of Canadian Aviation
Dundurn Group, 2002 - 185 p. ISBN10: 1550024124 (eng) From the eccentric Fairey Battle to the lethal-looking CF-18, from modern airliners that have no defects (and no character) to the classic North Star (which had both in plenty), here is the ultimate line-up of the aircraft that have served Canadians in the last century. With one hundred photographs of Fifty historic planes, Wings Across Canada is a retrospective of Canada's aeronautical techn...
Wigley P.G. Canada and the Transition to Commonwealth. British-Canadian Relations 1917-1926. (Cambridge Commonwealth Series)
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. - 308 p. Product Description: This book studies the relations between Britain and Canada from the end of the First World War to the Imperial Conference of 1926. It is concerned principally with the problems of imperial co-operation and consultation in foreign affairs and defence policy, and with the pressures developing out of these problems to reformulate the constitutional relations of Britain and...