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Condition: clean copy.Content: All deaths are listed, whatever the cause, be it in an operational sortie, a training flight, a loss during an air raid, or by illness, especially from the world-wide influence epidemic which swept Europe in 1918-19. In addition,, the date and place of birth of each airman is given, together with is place of death, first name[s] and rank. There is also a supplementary list of known losses [e.g. POW or wounded] which were not fatal. Zeppelin casualties are noted separately.384 pages.

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Condition: clean copy, some wear on dust jacket.Contents:A physician and spokesperson for the French Ideologues, Pierre-Jean-Georges Cabanis (1757-1808) stands at the crossroads of several influential developments in modern culture - Enlightenment optimism about human perfectibility, the clinical method in medicine, and the formation and adaptations of liberal social ideals in the French Revolution. This is a major study of Cabanis which traces the influences of these developments on his thought and career.430 pages, notes, bibliography, index.

Condition: clean copy, dust jacket in excellent condition, protected by plastic cover.Content: The fifth century bc was not only the first classic age of European civilization, it was the first and last period before the Romans in which great political and military power was located in the same place as cultural importance. This volume is more narrowly focused geographically than its predecessors and successors, and hardly strays beyond Greece.18 scholarly articles, 604 pages, chronological notes, chronology table, bibliography, index, maps.

Condition: clean copy, dustjacket in excellent condition, protected by plastic cover.Content: 26 scholarly articles covering the period 525-479 B.C.928 pages, chronology, bibliography, index.

Discovery Gold Town. The Cliff Dweller. Forgotten Expressman winter 1972 other issues available please ask.

Content: non-fiction, history. The Battle of the Somme was one of the most horrific battles of a horrific war. It lasted from July to November of 1916 and sucked in hundreds of thousands of soldiers from France, Germany, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Newfoundland. The Canadians fought there between September and November, battling their way across the fields north of the small farming village of Coucelette. For a gain of two kilometers of undulating farland, more than 8,000 Canadians died.91 pages, illustrated, maps, references.

Content: non-fiction, history. The second battle of Ypres in April 1915 represents Canada's horrific introduction to modern warfare. Two thousand Canadians would die in four days. This book uniquely chronicles that battle and brings to life those grimmest of times. The Canadians at Ypres revives this First World War battle, an event important to Canadian Heritage. It is the reference needed to visit those forgotten battlefields of today.88 pages, illustrated, maps, references.

Hisako Onoda, world famous cellist, refuses to fly. And so she travels to Europe as a passenger on a tanker bound through the Panama Canal. By the end of her journey she has ignited one soldier with and oxy-acetylene torch, stabbed another through the chest with the spike of her cello, clobbered a guard with the butt of a rifle and raked terrorists with machine-gun fire before frazzling the survivors in an oil-covered sea.

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Includes an Appendix: Afterword by Vladimir Petrov; Letter of Pavel Antokolski; Session of Soviet Writers' Secretariat; letter to newspapers and writers, April 18, 1968; Letter to the Literaturnaya Gazeta, April 21, 1968.

Condition: clean copy, sentiment and author's signature on the title page.Content: The historical account of the life and times of Captain McNeill, a long-stranding captain in the pioneering days of the fur trade in coastal BC. He was the captain of the Honourable Hudson's Bay steamer ship the S S Beaver. Born in Boston in 1803, by the time he joined the HBC, he was a competent and experienced master mariner and fur trader. Followhis historical immigration to Canada, to become one of the most feared and serviceable trading captains of the HBC.256 pages, bibliography, index.

Fraud, adventurer, robber and thief, the Captain has as many tall stories to tell as Jim has had boarding-school dinners. Now aged 22, a hack journalist and unwitting Judas, Jim attempts to piece together the Captain's story.

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Condition: clean copy.Content: Examining nine landmark battles from ancient to modern times - from Salamis, where outnumbered Greeks devastated the slave army of Xerxes, to Cortes's conquest of Mexico, to the Tet offensive, the author explains why the armies of the West have been the most lethal and effective of any fighting forces in the world.506 pages, glossary, for further reading, index.

Sound clean copy , light shelf wear to edges. Overall a good copy. No prev owner name or marks colour and b/w photo illustrations throughout

In Alexandre Chenevert, the Montreal bank teller traped by his narrow environment and acutely aware of his loneliness, the author has created a vivid and poignant portrait of an ordinary man and his attempts to transcend his circumstances and his fate. Set in 1947 amid the crumbled dreams of the post-war world, and drawing on modern themes of personal alienation and of the restorative force of nature, The Cashier is a tour de force of characterization and empathy by a literary virtuoso.

A companion to 'Rough but honest miner,' a CD of reclaimed music of the 1860's.

Condition: clean copy.Content: This tells two stories separated by 14,000 years. The first is of the repeated waves of Ice Age floods which sept across the face of eastern Washington, down the Columbia Gorge and up the Williamette and Tualatin valleys, catastrophically changing the face of thousands of square mile of the Pacific Northwest. The second is that of J Harlen Bretz, a remarkable geologist who defined the scientific orthodoxy of his day and argued that sudden floods rather than the slow uniform processes of erosion had created the scablands of eastern Washington.214 pages, bibliography, index and glossary.