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Say ‘Resurgam’!

Say ‘Resurgam’!

From: Churchill and Fisher

Historian Barry Gough examines Winston Churchill’s defence of the Dardanelles campagin despite high casualities and cost while Jack Fisher takes a position at the Admiralty Board of … 45 $4.50 Add
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Selected Bibliography

Selected Bibliography

From: The Myth of the Good War

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Self-help

Self-help

From: Equal as Citizens

1990s. Looks at the emergence of a counter to the Welfare State built on two tennents self-help through entrepreneurship and economic efficiency through intergovernmental cooperation using the … 13 $1.30 Add
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Service in France at No. 1 Canadian General Hospital

Service in France at No. 1 Canadian General Hospital

From: Asleep in the Deep

Anna Stamers was transfered to France in 1916. Hospitals in France were set up to receive all incoming wounded from the Allied forces, as well as civilians and prisoners of war. Horrible … 32 $3.20 Add
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Service on Other War Fronts
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Service on Other War Fronts

From: War Among the Clouds

This chapter continues to highlight the operations and experiences of the New Brunswick men who served on other war fronts, including in Italy, Egypt, Macedonia, and in parts of Russia. 13 $1.30 Add
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Serving Personnel at RMC

Serving Personnel at RMC

From: To Serve Canada

This chapter outlines the introduction into the RMC course of personnel already serving in the armed forces with and without commissions. 13 $1.69 Add
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Signing up to Serve

Signing up to Serve

From: Asleep in the Deep

This chapter describes the distinctive Canadian Nursing Sister uniform and the procedures undergone to recruit and select nurses for the Canadian Army Medical Corp once war was declared. … 18 $1.80 Add
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Stalin's Soviet Union:

Stalin’s Soviet Union:

An Unloved but Useful Partner

From: The Myth of the Good War

Focuses particular on 1942-43 to analyzes the Soviet Union’s contribution to the war and although opinions about the Societ Union were negative they proved to be extremely useful 10 $1.00 Add
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Supressing a Worldwide Movement of Liberty, Equality and the Unity of Humankind

Supressing a Worldwide Movement of Liberty, Equality and the Unity of Humankind

From: Patriots, Traitors and Empires

Chapter seven, Suppressing a Worldwide Movement for Liberty, Equality, and the Unity of Humankind focuses on the ideology of the communist movements growing in number across the colonial world, … 9 $0.90 Add
Targeting Libya

Targeting Libya

How Canada went from building public works to bombing an oil-rich country and creating chaos for its citizens

In Targeting Libya, investigative journalist Owen Schalk examines how Canadian business and government actors influenced Libya’s fate, from the rise and fall of Muammar Qadhafi to the … 258 View
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Taverns and Bars of St. John’s and Beyond
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Taverns and Bars of St. John’s and Beyond

From: Bottoms Up

Chapter 8 provides a list of drinking establishments in St. John’s with a brief history of each. 48 $4.80 Add
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Temperance
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Temperance

The Rise of Social Conscience

From: Bottoms Up

Chapter 5 explores the development of a backlash against alcohol culture in the form of the temperance movement. 14 $1.40 Add
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That Men May Fight
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That Men May Fight

Women and Military Service during the World Wars

From: Material Traces of War

This chapter describes what some Canadian women did in the military along with how they pushed and lobbied for expanded roles. From military nurses in both wars, to paramilitary auxiliary corps, … ; ; 71 $7.10 Add
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The Anti-Communist Police State

The Anti-Communist Police State

From: Patriots, Traitors and Empires

Chapter ten, Anti-Communist Police State After 1953 focuses on Washington’s commitment to rolling back communism in Korea. From the very first moments that Koreans had fought for freedom … 18 $1.80 Add
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The Beginning of the End for New France — 1758

The Beginning of the End for New France — 1758

From: The Fall of New France

Looks at Louisbourg, Fort Carillon, Fort Frontenacm, The Fall of Fort Duquesne, Montcalm’s Dilemma to explain what lead to French defeat 12 $1.20 Add
The Bitter Harvest of War

The Bitter Harvest of War

New Brunswick and the Conscription Crisis of 1917

In 1917, the Canadian Corps captured Vimy Ridge in northern France, and a myth grew that Canada — as a nation — was born on its slopes. But the cost was tremendous: 10,000 Canadians … 120 View