War & Military
A Richard Rohmer Omnibus
This volume combines three of Richard Rohmer's best-selling novels in one book. Ultimatum, Exxoneration, and Periscope Red are all fast-paced, incisive novels in which Rohmer makes fiction read like fact. They are chilling visions of a world of military conflict, legal and political entanglements, and Canada's role in domestic and international sph …
Aldershot 1945
The war in Europe is over. The war in Aldershot has just begun. Canadian soldiers anxiously waiting to be sent home riot in the garrison town of Aldershot, England to protest their idle confinement. On the next night, Lt. Col. Wellesley, the man in charge of arranging transport for the war-weary soldiers, is shot in the head. Is it coincidence, or …
All Else Is Folly
All Else Is Folly is an irreplaceable account of the Canadian experience in the First World War. It is more than a novel of the terrors and hardships of trench warfare and has a meaningful social dimension, since its author Peregrine Acland took cues from the Nietzschean notion of man as warrior and Havelock Ellis's idea of man as lover. Subtitled …
Braco
WINNER OF THE 2011 Fresh Fish Award for Emerging Writers, Lesleyanne Ryan’s debut novel, Braco, takes place over the five days fol¬lowing the fall of Srebrenica in 1995. The narrative follows the perspectives of Bosnian civilians, UN Peacekeepers, Serbian and Bosnian soldiers, as well as a Canadian photojournalist. A retired veteran and former B …