MILITARY/WAR/POLICE from Back Lane Books (Member of IOBA)

On to Victory: The Canadian Liberation of the Netherlands, March 23-May 5, 1945, Zuehlke, Mark. Published by Douglas & McIntyre, 2010. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 552pp. with black and white photographs, maps, bibliography, index. Photographic card covers. In fine, unread condition. Other titles available in this series; please inquire. The little-told story of the tense final days of World War… Read more about this item

Terrible Victory: First Canadian Army and the Scheldt Estuary Campaign: September 13 - November 6, 1944, Zuehlke, Mark. Published by Douglas & McIntyre, 2020. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 576pp. with black and white photographs, maps, bibliography, index. Photographic card covers. In fine, unread condition with light corner curl to front cover. Other titles available in this series; please inquire. A… Read more about this item

Forgotten Victory: First Canadian Army and the Cruel Winter of 1944-45, Zuehlke, Mark. Published by Douglas & McIntyre, 2016. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 501pp. with black and white photographs, maps, bibliography, index. Photographic card covers. In fine, unread condition with light corner curl to front cover. Other titles available in this series; please inquire. During the winter of 1944–45, the… Read more about this item

Tragedy at Dieppe: Operation Jubilee, August 19, 1942, Zuehlke, Mark. Published by Douglas & McIntyre, 2013. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 437pp. with black and white photographs, maps, bibliography, index. Photographic card covers. In fine, unread condition with light toning to text block. Other titles available in this series; please inquire. Dieppe had no strategic importance in World War II; the… Read more about this item

Breakout from Juno: First Canadian Army and the Normandy Campaign, July 4-August 21, 1944, Zuehlke, Mark. Published by Douglas & McIntyre, 2013. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 538pp. with black and white photographs, maps, bibliography, index. Photographic card covers. In fine, unread condition with light toning to text block. Other titles available in this series; please inquire. On July 4, 1944,… Read more about this item

Operation Husky: The Canadian Invasion of Sicily, July 10 August 7, 1943, Zuehlke, Mark. Published by Douglas & McIntyre, 2010. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 518pp. with black and white photographs, maps, bibliography, index. Photographic card covers. In fine, unread condition. Other titles available in this series; please inquire. On July 10, 1943, twenty thousand Canadian soldiers joined two great Allied… Read more about this item

Holding Juno: Canada's Heroic Defence of the D-Day Beaches: June 7-12, 1944, Zuehlke, Mark. Published by Douglas & McIntyre, 2006. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 432pp. with black and white photographs, maps, bibliography, index. Photographic card covers. In fine, unread condition. Other titles available in this series; please inquire. The Germans began probing the Canadian lines early in the morning of… Read more about this item

The Gothic Line: Canada's Month of Hell in World War II Italy, Zuehlke, Mark. Published by Douglas & McIntyre, 2006. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 551pp. with black and white photographs, maps, bibliography, index. Photographic card covers. In fine, unread condition. Other titles available in this series; please inquire. Stretching like an armour-toothed belt across Italy's upper thigh, the Gothic Line… Read more about this item

The Liri Valley: Canada's World War II Breakthrough to Rome, Zuehlke, Mark. Published by Douglas & McIntyre, 2004. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 492pp. with black and white photographs, maps, bibliography, index. Photographic card covers. In fine, unread condition. Other titles available in this series; please inquire. For the allied armies fighting their way up the Italian boot in early 1944,… Read more about this item

Ortona: Canada's Epic World War II Battle, Zuehlke, Mark. Published by Douglas & McIntyre, 2004. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 443pp. with black and white photographs, maps, bibliography, index. . Photographic card covers. In fine, unread condition. Other titles available in this series; please inquire. "In one blood-soaked, furious week of fighting, from December 20 to December 27, 1943, the 1st… Read more about this item

Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe: Gunpowder, Technology, and Tactics, Hall, Professor Bert S. Published by The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 300pp., black and white illustrative plates; bibliography; index. Blue cloth boards with white spine titles. Volume is in fine condition; unclipped jacket has a small closed tear lower spine; taped from the inside.

Goodbye to All That, Graves, Robert. Published by Guild Publishing, London, Geneva, 1979. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 306pp. Burgundy simulated leather boards with elaborate gilt scrolling to front and spine; burgundy endpapers with gilt scrolling. Volume is in fine, unread condition. Additional titles in Guild Publishing Classic Works available; please inquire. Goodbye to All That is an autobiographical memoir by… Read more about this item

Canadian Military History Since the 17th Century; Proceedings of the Canadian Military History Conference; L'histoire militaire canadienne depuis Le XVIIe Siècle, Tremblay, Yves. Published by Department of National Defence, Ottawa, 2000. Card covers. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 591pp. references, tables. Contains a selection of English and French papers presented at the Conference held in Ottawa, May 2000. Contents in… Read more about this item

The Monks of War: The Military Orders, Seward, Desmond. Published by The Folio Society, London, 2000. 338pp. with maps, black and white and colour illustrations, index, bibliography, glossary, notes and appendices. Black cloth boards with red and gilt illustration front and spine; housed in a black slipcase. Volume is in fine, unread condition; slipcase has light shelf wear. The Monks of… Read more about this item

Kesselring: The Making of the Luftwaffe, Macksey, Kenneth. Published by Frontline Books, 2012. Card covers. 262pp. with maps and 16 pages of contemporary photo illustrations. In fine, unread condition.

With Beatty off Jutland. A Romance of the Great Sea Fight, Westerman. Percy F. Published by Blackie & Son Limited, London, Circa 1920. 12mo up to 7½" tall., 284pp. with six black and white illustrated plates by Frank Gillett. Black cloth boards with illustration front and spine. Tanning to endpapers, light spine roll. In very good condition. Set against the… Read more about this item

Winning His Wings, a Story of the R.A.F., Westerman, Percy F. Published by Blackie & Son Limited, London, Glasgow, Circa 1919. 12mo up to 7½" tall., 288pp. with black and white illustrated plates by E.S. Hodgson. Tan cloth boards with illustration front and spine. Tanning to endpapers, foxing to outside edges, hinges lightly weakened. A World War 1 adventure; a… Read more about this item

A Gallant Grenadier: A Tale of The Crimean War, Brereton, F.S. Published by Blackie and Son, London, 1911. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 352pp. with one map and six black and white plates illustrated by Water Paget. Illustrated boards, bevelled edges. In very good condition with an occasional mark, tea stains to a few pages, and name to free endpaper.… Read more about this item

Under Foch's Command, A Tale of the Americans in France, Brereton, Captain F.S. Published by Blackie & Son, London, Circa 1925. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 286pp. 4 black and white plates illustrated by Walter Paget. Illustrated boards, bevelled edges. In very good condition: inscription to free endpaper, light toning and foxing to outside edges, light spine lean; boards have… Read more about this item

For Life and Liberty, A Story of Battle by Land and Sea, Gordon Stables; illustrations by Sidney Paget. Published by Blackie, London, 1908. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 352pp. with colour frontis and six black and white illustrative plates; double page color map of the Civil War 1861-1865; 16pp. rear illustrated publisher's ads. Blue boards with illustration front and spine,… Read more about this item