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12 pages. "Not to be Published - the information given in this publication is not to be communicated, either directly, to the Press or to any person not holding an official position in His Majesty's Forces." - from front cover. Reprinted in Canada April, 1943. Contents: Military Law Quiz; Report on an Airborne mission in North Africa, Nove 29 - Dec 10, 1942 - with map. Light wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
12 pages. "Not to be Published - the information given in this publication is not to be communicated, either directly, to the Press or to any person not holding an official position in His Majesty's Forces." - from front cover. Reprinted in Canada October, 1942. Contents: Life in the R.A.C. - tank crews in training; The Tanks at Dieppe - actual dialogue of R.T. wireless conversation between members of the tank crews of B and C Squadrons of the 14th Canadian Army Tank Regiment (The Calgarys); Finding New Officers; Index for numbers 1-26 of this publication. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. A nice copy. Book
84 pages. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white. Photos of all members. Undated but appears to be circa 1962. Book clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Backstrip partly missing with balance taped in place. A worthy copy of this military memento. Book
50 pages. Features: Great one-page ad for Mel Brooks' 'High Anxiety'; Nice full-page ad for 'Convoy'; Photo-illustrated article with Bernardo Bertolucci; 'Heroes' - photos; Photo-illustrated interview with Donald Sutherland; 'Hitler's Son' - photos; Berlin 1978 Film Festival; Reviews - 'High Anxiety', 'Gray Lady Down', 'Adoption', 'Roseland', 'Madame Claude', 'Telefon', 'A Piece of the Action', 'The Army in the Shadows', 'Full Circle'; 'The Green Room' - photos; 'Gray Lady Down' - photos; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
249 pages. Index. Bibliography. Footnotes. Few black and white illustrations. "Introduces a new kind of military history that will transform existing views of the Canadian Army's experience during the Second World War... Examines the behaviour of soldiers under the extreme stress of war and the medical and military attempts to manage this behaviour." - from dust jacket. Pertinent news clippings laid in at back. Average wear. Usual library markings. Remainder mark to bottom edge. A sound working copy. Book
143 pages. Index. Profusely illustrated with maps and reproductions of archival black and white photos. Oblong 12.5" x 9.5". "Presents the story of Allied and German strategy in the last month of the Normandy campaign as well as a detailed account of the battles fought by the Canadians along the road to Falaise." - from dust jacket. Prior owner's small address label inside front board, otherwise clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. A quality copy of this important reference. Book
64 pages. Features: U.S. Ideals vs. Nuclear Concepts; Ten Best; Transfer the Unit; FMF Organization and Composition Board Report; Service Elements (part 4 of 4); How the Allies Let Victory Slip in 1944; Seaborne Striking Force - great photos; Operation Musketeer - the Royal Marine Commandos executed their first brigade-sized landing since WWII - unrehearsed; Nice photo-ad for Sikorsky helicopters - theS-56, S-58 and H-19; Planning Future Medical Support; Tito's Army - the strongest military force in the Balkans; The Brain Pickers of Barrett Hall; Bell Telephone ad features photos of award winners Walter H. Brattain, H.F. Dodge, H.T. Friis, Axel G. Jensen, R. Kompfner, Warren A. Marrison, W.G. Pfann and Claude E. Shannon; and more. Average wear. Bits of writing on front cover. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
235 pages. Author's signature and inscription upon title page. Bibliography. Index. Black and white illustrations. "The skill, bravery, and perseverance of the Canadian soldier in the dying months of the war leap off these pages. Mr. Fowler has performed a valuable service in confirming once again the proud military tradition enjoyed by Canada." - from Foreward. Clean, bright, tight and square with very light wear. Quality copy. Book
370 pages. Index. "For every member of the Aircraft Warning Service, every member of the Armed Services, every member of aviation,, every air-minded citizen! This brand-new, complete and authoritative guide contains over 1,300 photographs and 3-position silhouettes of the world's leading war planes - both Allied and Axis types. It includes the amazing new 2-Line "Friend or Foe" flash identification system All recognition charactistics based on the famous WEFT formula. No less than 350 military aircraft are described and illustrated, including over 90 American warplanes, 70 British, over 60 German, over 30 Jap, and over 40 Italian planes. It also describes and illustrates planes of Russia, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Spain and France. It includes Barrage Balloons, Blimps and Rotating wing aircraft. Beyond comparison this is the biggest, most comprehensive volume of its kind in America!" - from back cover. Somewhat above-average wear. Prior owner's name atop title page. Ends of backstrip discretely secured by tape. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy of this wonderful reference. Book
40 pages. Circa 1940s. 72 black and white photos and illustrations. Printed on glossy stock. Features: Great ad for part I of Hitler's Mein Kampf inside front cover; Big guns of the coast of France; Australia prepares to fight for the Allied cause - nice full-page photo of troops of the Australian Scottish Regiment marching on a road near Victoria, Australia; Royal Navy Gunners in training at sea; Photo of the Fire Region Nerve Centre; Princess Royal inspecting the Royal Corps of Signals on December 12th; The Corps of the Military Police - illustrated article by Sir Malcolm Campbell; Refuelling a Nazi seaplane; Finland holds out against the Soviet Invaders - eight great photos; British Air Supremacy - illustrated article by Sir Kingsley Wood; Torpedoed survivors have second adventure - the Belgian steamer Louis Sheid beaches on the coast of Devonshire on December 7th after rescuing survivors of the Dutch motor-ship Tajandoen - two super photos; Wonderful centerfold illustrations show how the R.A.F. has obtained thousands of valuable photos of German territory on the Western front; French Army activity on the Front; Training sailors for the Fleet Air Arm; The War at Sea - statement by Winston Churchill with photos; Sweden strengthens her defences - ten great photos including a full-page photo of the Drottning Victoria with guns ablaze; Commentary on the war this week; Photos of bomb-making for the Royal Air Force; Nazi Heinkel reconnaissance aircraft crashes into sea off Sheringham on December 6th; Summary of the chief events of this week. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
40 pages. Circa 1940s. 77 black and white photos and illustrations. Printed on glossy stock. Features: Ad for Mein Kampf, part 3, inside front cover; The army of France at the front; Ministerial and R.A.F. changes - photos of A.S. Barratt, Sir John Reith, Oliver Stanley and Sir Andrew Rae Duncan; Full-page photo of France honouring Sir Edmund Ironside and Lord Gort; Contraband control strangling Germany's tradep Nazi watch on the western front; Text of speech by Lord Snell entitled "The British Empire - In War and After"; Photo portrait of Admiral Sir Charles Forbes; Lumberjacks of the Land Girls Army; British tank gunners in training; Admiral Graf Spee visitors pay courtesy visits - the Ajax in Montevideo and the Achilles in Buenos Aires; Centerfold maps illustrate European industrial targets and bases most vulnerable to raids; At an R.A.F. Aerodrome in France; Norway prepares to defend her neutrality - 12 great photos; photo of partially submerged vessel Dunbar Castle which struck a German mine; photo of bombed Trinity House vessel which was attacked by a Nazi plane on January 9th; Illustrated article - The Royal Army Chaplain's Department; At an R.A.F. fighter station; A 25-pounder shoot at the front; Commentary on the war this week; Finland's fight for freedom - 8 excellent photos including one of a Soviet amphibious tank; Summary of the chief events of this week. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
32 pages. Printed on glossy stock. Profusely illustrated with high quality black and white photos and illustrations. Features: full-page photo of a heavy German gun near Calais which hurls shells at Dover; Our army in large-scale exercises; Excellent photo portrait of Norway's Crown Prince Olaf with two Norwegian officers; Photos of the R.A.F. in Northern Ireland; Photo-illustrated article containing the text of a speech by Ronald H. Cross entitled "Britain's Merchant Service"; Progress of the Greek War; Photo of Argyrokastro - another base abandoned by the Italians; Illustrations showing how the Greeks went forward on the Southern Front; bomb damage photos from London, Liverpool and Southampton; Centerfold illustration by Montague B. Black shows R.A.F. bombers blasting Bordeaux Nazi U-Boat base on 8 December 1940; Canada patrols the seas - the H.M.S. Ottawa and the H.M.C.S. Reindeer; With Britain's desert warriors; Illustrated article entitled How Italy's Attack on Greece has benefitted the British Navy; Wings of the Fleet - photos including a Walrus and Skua taking off from aircraft carriers; A commentary on the war for this week; South Africa's airmen in action; Summary of the chief events in the war this week. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A tight, sound copy. Book
155 pages. Features include: Regimental Notes; 1961 Rifle Team; Marine Magic; Interim Report from Ghana; First Battalion Report; Home Station Report - Regimental Depot, Second Battalion, Mess Activities; PPCLI Cadet Corps; The Loyal Edmonton Regiment; The Rifle Brigade; PPCLI Association; Exercise Tombstone Association; Regimental Number "1"; Crossing the Savio River - Italy; The History of the PPCLI Band; West Coast Trek; Memorial Plaque - Dedication Ceremonies; U.S. Army Ranger Course; and more. Very light wear. Clean and unmarked. Mild yellowing to contents. Brilliant gilt lettering and emblem upon forest green cloth flexible boards. Excellent copy. Book
119 pages. Printed upon glossy stock Profusely illustrated with reproductions of archival black and white photos. "Presents a brief summary of Norwegian military activities in Nova Scotia during the Second World War... Intended to be a commemorative book for those who were there and for relatives of those who have already gone before us." - from dust jacket. Gift greetings upon front free endpaper otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy of this interesting history. Book
179 pages. "When nature tears lives apart, Canadians work heroically to put them back together again." - from back cover. Author is president of Construction Volunteers Canada. Colour photos. Large book measuring 9.25" x 12". Clean and unmarked with light wear. Bump to upper corner of front board. A nice hard-cover copy in handsomely colour-illustrated boards. Book
viii, [2], 428 pages. Index. Fold-out map. Chapters include: Preparation for War; The First Contingent; The 2nd Division; The First Winter 1915-1916; The Field Ambulance; The Salient to the Somme; The Somme / Vimy Ridge / Passchendaele; The Surgery of the Front; Development of the Service in the Field; The Year of Controversy - 1916; Reorganization 1917; Establishment at the Base and on the Lines of Communication; The Ancillar Services; Diseases of War; Special Organs; Various Details (including poison gas); The Red Cross; and more. Heavily-worn with usual library markings. Front hinge open. Narrow opening along back hinge. Openings along backstrip. Lacking Addenda and Corrigenda leaf. Strictly a reading copy of this informative history. Bibliographic references: Enser page 88; Dornbusch 169, Book
360 pages. Index. Tissue-protected black and white photographic frontis portrait of subject. "This arresting autobiography of a Canadian statesman and decorated Vimy Ridge veteran throws interesting sidelights on men prominent in Canadian life as well as on renowned medical men with whom the author studied." - from dust jacket. Gift greetings upon front free endpaper otherwise book unmarked with average wear. Binding sound. Above-average wear and soiling to dust jacket which is now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy of this distinguished work. Book
111 pages. Includes group photo and list of names of attendees of the Canadian Army Staff College, 9 January 1956 - 16 November 1956. Heavily worn. Covers loose as one, but present. Moisture stain to lower corner. A worthy reference copy. Book
56 pages. Features: Interview with Hugo McPherson, formerly chairman of the NFB (National Film Board); Free-form FM and Montreal's CKGM-FM; Vancouver falconer George Galicz; Photo of Strom Thurmond after being pelted with marshmallows in Pittsburgh school last January; Storm clouds for the Weathermen; Article on Charles Manson and Linda Kasabian; Hero's welcome for Army Sergeant Esequiel Torres of Brownsville, Texas; The Deep River Ancient Muster; Yes from Nasser, Dilemma for Israel; The Points of Issue in the Hostile Middle East; Soviet AN-22 crashes into the North Atlantic while delivering relief supplies to Peru; Germany - the rocky road to recognition; Cambodia - the discreet U.S. Presence; The Caribbean - 'Tourism is Whorism"; Photo of Joe Pepitone sitting on Cadillac; Street Christians - Jesus as the ultimate trip; Color photos of art dealers Ben Heller, Sam Salz, Eugene Thaw, Michael Hall, Jane Wade, Charles Slatkin, Harold Diamond, and Harold Reed; Passing of Phillip J. Lucier, Jim G. Lucas, Iain Macleod, Barry Wood, Ilse Stanley and Panayotis Pipinelis; Major article and photo of singer Bessie Smith; The Old in the Country of the Young; The Prospects for Living Even Longer - Dr. Alex Comfort; A Kingdom Besieged - John M. King of Denver; Germany's Krupp rises again; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
66 pages. Features: News Photos; Tribute to Philadelphia's Railroad Station; Canadian National's Lynn Lake Line - Rails toward the Arctic, by Peter C. Newman; Smoke Over the Prairies 4 - the first Burlington Steam Power; 3 and a half days from coast to coast - reprint of a1923 article from Mutual magazine; Photo Section; A Steam School in 1955? - at Fort Eustis, Va. the Army teaches men to railroad under any conditions; Cleveland's "Rapid" - electric passenger railway; When Steam Ruled the Saluda - Southern Railway; The Preservation of Illinois Terminal; and more. Small date stamp atop back cover, otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Magazine
Features: Great cover photo of a steam pile driver in action, plus great article and more photos inside; Funeral Train for Ike (Eisenhower) - Extra 4028 West - text and photos; Railroad News Photos; In train travel, Europe's average matches our best - article with photos and many tables; Centerfold features a pair of aging Alco L-2a Mohawks departing Selkirk, New York in 1951; Good-bye Great Western - absorbed into the Chicago & North Western camp; Mr. Jordan's marvelous multidexterous machine - 'does the work of an army of men' - great photos and article; World's steepest adhesion railroad? - amazing photos, article and map; Chet Schwarzkopf recalls riding in the cab of a steam locomotive as a boy; and more. Average wear. Faint date stamp atop front cover else unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Features: Remembering Walt - Pat Coburn is interviewed about her late husband, the "King of the Pulps" - Walt Coburn; Uncle Billy Jacobs' Story - a runaway boy hires on with the Pecos Carter and his Panhandle Pool outfit; Buried Treasure in Squirrel Gulch - the Colt 45, once belonged to William Brocius Graham, the famous Curly Bill; In Quest of a Coquillard Wagon; The Evenin' I Met Cull Mims; Taking a head count - the census; Christening the Red Onion - northwest Colorado; Arkichita and a wicked Texas Cowboy - Indian tracker versus Army bully... and guess who won! - Fort Wadsworth; What became of Cambria, Wyoming?; The Mysterious Pinkerton - undercover work at its most dangerous; California's Killer Flood - the winter of 1861-62; Living with "Aunt Sam" James; A Tenderfoot's Dangerous Trip - Fort Laramie, Wyoming. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
xvii, [3], 338 pages. Author spent time in Japan prior to WWII and wrote this book in an effort to aid the democracies in concluding peace in the Pacific at the war's conclusion. He seeks to do this by examining "the developments which led to the outbreak of war in the Pacific after the Japanese army and navy had secured the support of a group of aristocrats, diplomats, politicians and ambitious capitalists whose cowardice and subservience made them as guilty of aggression as the militarists themselves." - from Preface. Former IODE library copy with related internal markings. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this fascinating work. Book
40 pages. Features: 6th Duke of Connaught's Own Lancers (Watson's Horse); 7th Light Cavalry; 8th King George's Own Light Cavalry; The Royal Deccan Horse (9th Horse); 10th Queen Victoria's Own Corps of Guides Cavalry (Frontier Force); Prince Albert Victor's Own Cavalry (11th Frontier Force); Same Browne's Cavalry (12th Frontier Force); 13th Duke of Connaught's Own Lancers; Dress Regulations for the Indian Calvalry, Indian Army Regulations, Volume VII, 1913; Duke of Cambridge receiving Native Officers of the 9th Bengal Lancers, Malta, 1878; 2nd Bengal Lancers. Undated but appears to be circa 1985. Somewhat above-average external wear. Bit of writing on front cover. Binding intact. A sound copy. Magazine
Pages 133 - 178. Many wonderful black and white illustrations. National Gallery of Canada ad features tipped in colour plate of 'Stormy Weather' by F. Horsman Varley. Features: Canadian Army Art Exhibition - An Editorial Review; The Academy and the Future of Art in Canada; The Canadian Group of Painters - 1944; The Problem of Distortion - first in a series of articles on the understanding of art; An Artist on the Italian Front; Young Canada; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
