Military - First World War from Capricorn Books

London: Bloomsbury, 2014. 376 pp, 9 1/2" H. Pictorial endpapers, sepiatone photographs throughout. "Conventional histories of the Great War have tended to focus on the terrible attritional battles of Ypres, of Arras and of the Somme. What they do not tell us is what life was like for the ordinary soldier, what mattered to him, and how he survived,… Read more about this item

London: Osprey, 1985. 48 pp, 9 3/4" H. Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, maps, 8 pages of colour uniform studies. Contents: Introduction; Canada and her Army; 1900-14: The Growing Commitment; 1914-18: Attrition; 1939-45: The Global War; 1950-53: United Nations Involvement. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - tiny bump at the top… Read more about this item

Canada: Doubleday Canada, 2014. 339 pp, 8 1/2" H. "In June a few years ago I set out to visit some of the World War One battlefields of Europe - the slope and valley and river and plain that the Newfoundland Regiment trained on, and fought over and through and under.' So begins Michael Winter's extraordinary narrative that follows… Read more about this item

St Catharines, Ontario: Vanwell, 1997. 300 pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w maps, drawings, photographs. "Born in Canada, (John) McCrae served in the South African War before carving out a career as an eminent doctor. It was during the Great War, whilst serving in 1915 as both an artillery and medical officer in the Second Battle of Ypres, that he… Read more about this item

Don Mills, Ontario: Oxford University Press, 2009. 500 pp, 9 1/4" H. B&w illustrations. "(A) remarkable look at the development of Canadian art, from the first appearance of Native crafts through to Booker Prize winners such as Margaret Atwood and Yann Martel. In tracing the history of Canada's cultural roots, Jonathan Vance also tells the story of Canadian identity."… Read more about this item

Toronto: Random House, 1993. 354pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w photographs and map. "Often we accept a static image of the First World War. Canadians have been taught about poison gas at Ypres and the conscription crisis of 1917. The slaughter on the Somme and the mud of Passchendaele sum up all that needs to be remembered about bloody-minded generals… Read more about this item

Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007. 384 pp, 9 1/4" H. B&w photographs, maps, reproductions. Inscribed on half title page, and with inscribed business card taped in, by Thomas H.B. Symons, founding president of Trent University and author of the Foreword. "(B)rings to light the correspondence between two officer brothers and their family at home from 1915 to… Read more about this item

Toronto: Thomas Nelson & Sons The first 17 numbers of the series, no dates but circa 1915. 9 5/16" H, paper covers in shades of green, blue and khaki. Stated on each front cover: "Recommended by the Minister of Education for use in the Public and separate School Libraries of Ontario." Profusely illustrated in b&w with maps, battle plans, drawings,… Read more about this item

(Toronto): The Canadian Bank of Commerce, 1921. 498 pp, 9 7/8" H. **Volume II only.** Deep red cloth boards with blind stamped Greek key borders on front and rear boards, gilt lettering on spine, gilt decoration on spine/front board. B&w illustrations - tissue-covered frontispiece, fold-out map, photographs - all present. "It was originally considered that one volume, containing… Read more about this item

St Catharines, Ontario: Vanwell, 1997. 143 pp, large 8vo (9 7/8" H). Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, reproductions, drawings, maps, color plates. "(A) detailed analysis of von Richthofen's last flight in which he pursued a Sopwith Camel across the Allied front line, and which ended in a mortal wound from a single bullet.The study is complemented by 3-D maps,… Read more about this item

London: Brockhampton, 1999. 256 pp, large 8vo (9 7/16" H). B&w photographs. "(P)rovides the first clear, fully-documented view of Manfred von Richthofen as an air-fighter, exemplary leader and an important figure in the development of German fighter units and tactics in the First World War. It was made possible by extensive research and, with the end of the Cold War,… Read more about this item

London: After the Battle / Battle of Britain Prints, 1985. 3 numbers of Wheels & Tracks magazine, 11 5/8" H. B&w photographs/drawings, colour photographs on covers. 1. Number 14 - 1985, 53 pp. Contents: Wooden Wheels (horse-drawn military transport); Satory X; Super Heavy Wreckers (US armed forces's recovery vehicles during '40s); Alexander's Ford Tourer (Field Marshal Alexander's staff car);… Read more about this item

London: Arms and Armour, 1997. 287 pp, 10" H. Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, maps. "This compilation of facts, figures and accounts provides a comprehensive reference for students (of aviation) at all levels. They will find comments on the inventors and manufacturers, the planners and strategists, the daring test pilots and the combative fighter and bomber crews; they will… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday, 1968. 289 pp., 8vo (8 3/8" H). B&w photographs, drawings. "A genuine classic of air combat reportage - the exciting battle memoirs of an American ace in World War I! In this true adventure story, one of (America's) earliest flying aces recreates the spectacle and drama of his flights with the French Air Service, the famed… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1918. 339 pp, 7 5/8" H - blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front board. B&w photographs, including frontispiece - all present. From the Publisher's Note: "It was 1914 when this adventurous young American enlisted, and it was early in 1915 that he reached the Western Front. It was not until November, 1917,… Read more about this item

Toronto: The Canadian Annual Review, 1919. 879 pp, 9" H. Red cloth with gilt lettering/banding on spine. B&w tissue-covered photographic frontispiece (General Sir Arthur William Currie) plus additional b&w photographs throughout text. Advertising section, pages 834-857. Chapter Headings: Last Stages of the World War; The British Empire in the War; The United States and the War; Socialism and… Read more about this item

Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1959. 290 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). B&w photographs. "Leslie Roberts begins his history of the RCAF with an account of (the first flight in Canada on Baddeck Bay in 1909). Five and one-half years later the first World War broke out and (he) records the exploits in that conflict of the Canadians who took… Read more about this item

Toronto: The Canadian Annual Review, 1920. 955 pp, 9 1/8" H. Red cloth with gilt lettering/banding on spine. B&w photographs, drawing, map (Official Map of the Western Front When the Hindenburg Line was broken through by the British and Canadian Forces). Advertising section, pages 908-932. Chapter Headings: Canadian Echoes of the World War; Canadian Relations with Foreign Countries;… Read more about this item

Letchworth: Harleyford, 1966. 210 pp, 11 1/4" H. Red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, 1/72 scale, 3-view drawings (many fold out) and colour frontispiece with tipped in corrected caption. Main section headings: Nation-by-Nation Review of Marine Aviation, 1914-1918; Landplanes at Sea; Austro-Hungarian Section; German Section; British Section; French Section; Russian Section;… Read more about this item

Toronto: James Lorimer, 2008. 143 pp, 8 1/2" H. B&w map, photographs. "A defining moment in Canadian military history. A much-needed Allied victory. A show of valour and heroism. The battle of Vimy Ridge in April 1917 saw Canadian troops storm a strategic 14-kilometre long escarpment that was believed to be impregnable. This was the… Read more about this item