Canada’s Three Korean Wars by Bob Orrick
“Canada’s Three Korean Wars is a capsule account of Canada’s army,
navy, and air force during the Korean War.” –Publisher
Marching
As To War by Pierre Berton
"Between 1899 and 1953, three
generations of young Canadians marched off to distant battlefields to fight in
four different wars. From the African veldt to the fields of Flanders, the
beaches of Dieppe, and the Korean highlands. The half-century also saw Canada
transformed from an agricultural nation beholden to the British Empire to an
industrial powerhouse closely linked to the Unites States.” –WorldCat
On War by Carl von Clausewitz
“On War is a treatise about a military art which Prussian officer
Carl Philipp Gottflib von Clausewitz had been working on for 15 years. It is
commonly believed that Clausewitz's treatise had a greater impact on military
leaders of the late XIX and XX centuries than any other book.” –Amazon
Stalingrad:
The Fateful Siege by Antony
Beevor
“In August 1942, Hitler's huge
Sixth Army reached the city that bore Stalin's name. In the five-month siege
that followed, the Russians fought to hold Stalingrad at any cost; then, in an
astonishing reversal, encircled and trapped their Nazi enemy. This battle for
the ruins of a city cost more than a million lives.” –Amazon
The
Korean War: A History by Bruce
Cumings
“For Americans, it was a discrete
conflict lasting from 1950 to 1953. But for the Asian world the Korean War was
a generations-long struggle that still haunts contemporary events. With access
to new evidence and secret materials from both here and abroad, including an
archive of captured North Korean documents, Bruce Cumings reveals the war as it
was actually fought.” –Amazon
The
Mythical Battle: Hastings 1066 by
Ashley Hern
“The Battle of Hastings is one of
the key events in the history of the British Isles. This book looks at themes
such as how Harold died and why the English lost, but also at other crucial
issues, such as the diplomatic significance of William of Normandy's claim to
the English throne, the Norman attempt to secure papal support, and the extent
to which the Norman and Anglo-Saxon armies represented diametrically opposed
military systems.” –Publisher
The
Norman Conquest by
Teresa Cole
“A re-examining of the Norman
Conquest of England, the genocide committed in northern England, the wholesale
transfer of lands to Norman lords, and the Domesday Book designed to enable
every last drop of riches to be extracted from a subdued kingdom.” –Publisher
The Naked
Olympics: The True Story of the Ancient Games by Tony Perrottet
“Piecing together ancient
eyewitness accounts, this history is a fascinating mix of the familiar and the
wildly exotic, exploring the often harsh conditions the spectators endured, the
bizarre events that were held, and even Plato's changing room pick up' lines.'”
–Publisher.
Vimy by Pierre Berton
“The action is placed within the
context both of the Battle of Arras, of which this attack was part, and as a
milestone in the development of Canada as a nation.” –WorldCat