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Book cover of In Flanders Fields: 100 Years featuring a single red poppy against a black backdrop, with the subtitle Writing on War, Loss and Remembrance.

$35.50

In Flanders Fields: 100 Years: Writing on War, Loss and Remembrance

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$20.00

Faith Under Fire

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The Great Halifax Explosion

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Book cover for Burn, Bomb, Destroy by Michael Digby. Features an illustration of a statue on a red background, with text about German secret agents and their sabotage campaign in North America during World War I, 1914-1917.

$35.00

Burn, Bomb, Destroy: The German Sabotage Campaign in North America, 1914–1917

The cover shows an illustration of a snow covered forest with bare trees making long shadows on the snow covered ground. A highlighted circle reads Shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

$17.50

Held: A Novel

Book cover of Valour at Vimy Ridge by Tom Douglas, featuring Canadian troops with artillery, set against a backdrop of World War I battle scenes.

$17.00

Valour at Vimy Ridge: The Great Canadian Victory of World War I

The dark cover for Till We Meet Again is mostly black as it fades into a black and white image of a small group of soldiers. The lounge against the muddy ground and some of them are wearing bandages. All of them wear their doughboy helmets.

$30.00

Till We Meet Again: A Canadian in the First World War

Book cover for The Secret History of Soldiers by Tim Cook. Image shows World War I soldiers playing baseball, a rare respite from the brutal trench warfare. Text below reads How Canadians Survived the Great War.

$20.50

The Secret History of Soldiers: How Canadians Survived the Great War

$18.00

Three Day Road

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$33.00

Padres: in No Man's Land

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$25.50

Firing Lines: Three Canadian Women Write the First World War

The cover for Muggins is a vintage photograph of a ship filled with men in WWI style uniforms. One of the men holds a white fluffy dog on his soldier has he looks at the camera. In the distance there is a city with tall brick buildings. At the top of the title that reads Muggins is a illustrated Spitz bread of dog that is white, fluffy tailed, and small. The dog has a red cross badge tied around his middle.

$23.50

Muggins: The Life and Afterlife of a Canadian Canine War Hero

$24.00

Riding into Battle: Canadian Cyclists in the Great War

$27.00

Montreal at War

The cover shows a woman dressed in a vintage blue dress and white apron tied around her waist. She is seen with her back to the viewer, as she stands in a filed of grasses and flowers. She overlooks a large body of water.

$19.50

When the World Fell Silent

$25.50

Sounding Thunder: The Stories of Francis Pegahmagabow (American Indian Studies)

The book cover of By the Ghost Light by R.H. Thomson features a poignant scene where a person walks on a dirt path amid a war-torn World War I landscape with broken wheels, under the text Wars, Memory, and Families, capturing the essence of this non-fiction work.

$28.50

By the Ghost Light: Wars, Memory, and Families

The book cover of "Mysteries, Legends and Myths of the First World War" by Cynthia J. Faryon features Canadian soldiers in gas masks, capturing the haunting essence of trenches and the aerial battles they faced.

$17.00

Mysteries, Legends and Myths of the First World War: Canadian Soldiers in the Trenches and in the Air

Book cover for Christmas Day 1916 by the Canadian Army, 160th Bruce Battalion, Canadian Infantry Expeditionary Force. The cover features a sepia-toned World War I photograph showing soldiers beside a large artillery gun on a smoky battlefield. The title and text appear in white against a dark gray background above the image.

$19.00

Christmas Day 1916: Roster of 160th Bruce Battn. Canadian Infantry Expeditionary Force.

Illustrated book cover shows a Canadian Corps soldier in uniform holding a machine gun and a Royal Bavarian soldier in uniform and helmet holding his rifle. Behind them are scenes from the battlefield.

$23.00

Canadian Corps Soldier vs Royal Bavarian Soldier: Vimy Ridge to Passchendaele 1917

Book cover of For King and Kanata by Timothy C Winegard featuring a sepia toned photo of a solider with a rifle against a yellow wooded background and white text.

$32.50

For King and Kanata: Canadian Indians and the First World War

$30.00

Wartime: The First World War in a Canadian Town

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