In the midst of the Second World War, the Germans introduced a new kind of warfare that had never been seen before, featuring a new kind of soldier: the paratrooper.
For well of a hundred years, Canadians and Americans have crossed the border that separates their two countries to serve in one another's armed forces.
Between 1950 and 1953, nearly 30,000 Canadian volunteers joined the effort to contain communist incursions into South Korea and support the fledgling United Nations.
The involuntary soldiers of an unmilitary people such were the forces that American military planners had to pit against hardened Axis veterans, yet prewar unpreparedness dictated that whole divisions of such men would go to war under the supervision of tiny professional cadres.
Winner of the 2012 Heritage Toronto Award of Merit Stanley Barracks begins with the construction in 1840-41 of the new facility that replaced the then decaying Fort York Barracks.
WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY KATIE KITAMURA'A work of visceral urgency and power' AMITAV GHOSH'Totally and shockingly alive from its very first paragraph' ALI SMITH, GUARDIAN'An extraordinary book' SUNDAY TELEGRAPHAgu is just a boy when war arrives at his village.
When Woodrow Wilson called on the American people to mobilize for war in April 1917, it was hardly surprising that historians should respond to their one-time colleague.
First published in the 1960s and long out of print, Edmund Cosgrove recounts the lives of Canada's outstanding pilots and their exploits in the two world wars.
After relatively successful military interventions in Iraq in 1992 and Yugoslavia in 1998, many American strategists believed that airpower and remote technology were the future of U.
In this study of Pennsylvania and the War of 1812, the author sees the political ambitions of the Republicans, rather than economic, diplomatic or expansionist motives as the primary impetus for the outbreak of the war.
This study is the first to analyze both the Nazi party's membership development and composition, as well as the motives for joining and the exoneration strategies of former party members chosen during the denazification process.
When Spain exploded into civil war in July 1936, a conflict whose roots were deep in the Spanish past became the arena for the violent political passions that divided Europe north of the Pyrenees.
Dans l’enfer des tranchées de la Première Guerre mondiale, Antoine Moreau trouve réconfort dans ses échanges de lettres avec Marthe Tissier, sa « marraine de guerre ».
This study is the first to analyze both the Nazi party's membership development and composition, as well as the motives for joining and the exoneration strategies of former party members chosen during the denazification process.
