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The Apathetic and the Defiant
Dundurn 2007; US$ 24.99From the War of 1812 to the First World War, this book reveals that disobedience has marked all of the major conflicts in which Canada has participated. more...
Les apathiques et les rebelles
Dundurn 2007; US$ 24.99Il y a des siecles que les soldats canadiens servent honorablement leur pays. Il est toutefois arrive que leur conduite ait ete tout sauf honorable! Que ce soit en desobeissant aux ordres, en terrorisant la population locale ou en commettant divers crimes, certains soldats se sont comportes aux antipodes de ce qu'est une conduite appropriee pour un... more...
The Insubordinate and the Noncompliant
Dundurn 2008; US$ 49.95This third volume in a trilogy about disobedience in the Canadian military offers a perspective on mutiny in the twentieth century. more...
The Strategy Makers: Thoughts on War and Society from Machiavelli to Clausewitz
ABC-CLIO 2010; US$ 50.00This book reintroduces readers to the lives and writings of the greatest military minds of the modern era, writers whose ideas and teachings continue to shape the conduct of war in the 21st century. more...
War and Our World
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 10.00John Keegan, widely considered the greatest military historian of our time and the author of acclaimed volumes on ancient and modern warfare--including, most recently, The First World War , a national bestseller--distills what he knows about the why?s and how?s of armed conflict into a series of brilliantly concise essays. Is war a natural condition... more...
Soft Spots
St. Martin's Press 2009; US$ 14.99A powerful, haunting, provocative memoir of a Marine in Iraq?and his struggle with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in a system trying to hide the damage done Marine Sergeant Clint Van Winkle flew to war on Valentine?s Day 2003. His battalion was among the first wave of troops that crossed into Iraq, and his first combat experience was the battle... more...
Stoic Warriors
Oxford University Press, USA 2005; US$ 14.99While few soldiers may have read the works of Epictetus or Marcus Aurelius, it is undoubtedly true that the ancient philosophy known as Stoicism guides the actions of many in the military. Soldiers and seamen learn early in their training "to suck it up," to endure, to put aside their feelings and to get on with the mission. Stoic Warriors... more...
Wartime
Oxford University Press, USA 1989; US$ 19.99Winner of both the National Book Award for Arts and Letters and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory was one of the most original and gripping volumes ever written about the First World War. Frank Kermode, in The New York Times Book Review, hailed it as "an important contribution... more...
War and International Justice
Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2006; US$ 35.95Can war ever be just? By what right do we charge people with war crimes? Can war itself be a crime? What is a good peace treaty? Since the Cold War ended in the early 1990s, many wars have erupted, inflaming such areas as the Persian Gulf, Central Africa and Central Europe. Brutalities committed during these conflicts have sparked new interest... more...
Eating Mud Crabs in Kandahar
University of California Press 2011; US$ 29.95These sometimes harrowing, frequently funny, and always riveting stories about food and eating under extreme conditions feature the diverse voices of journalists who have reported from dangerous conflict zones around the world during the past twenty years. A profile of the former chef to Kim Jong Il of North Korea describes Kim?s exacting standards... more...









