Donald E. Graves Livres

In 1838, seeing political turbulence in Canada as an opportunity, a clandestine American organisation, the Patriot Hunters, launched a series of attacks across the border. Detesting "tyranny and oppression wherever manifested", they believed that all it would take was "a good stand maintained for a short time" and Canadians would rally to their standard. The most ambitious Hunter attack was launched in November 1838 when over 500 armed men, commanded by a European soldier of fortune, set out from northern New York in a flotilla of chartered and hijacked vessels and occupied a stone windmill near Prescott, Ontario. Their hopes were doomed. After five days of heavy fighting, British regulars and Canadian militia captured this "Alamo of the North", and those invaders who survived were tried by a court martial -- 11 were executed and 60 deported to an Australian penal colony. The Patriot Hunters' invasion resulted in nothing but destruction and loss of life, and their only memorial is the stone windmill, today a historic site, beside the St Lawrence River. Donald E Graves tells the full story of this bloody but forgotten military action and the undeclared war of which it was a part. This book is packed with fascinating information about a colourful time in North American history and about the men who fought at the windmill -- their personalities, tactics, weapons, uniforms, and even the songs they sang.

In Another Place, Another Time, Werner Hirschmann provides a unique view of the day-to-day life of a U-boat officer who, like young men on both sides, did his best to enjoy life while trying to do his duty. An epilogue describes his postwar life as a prisoner-of-war in Canada and Britain and his subsequent postwar move to Canada, where he pursued a successful career and eventually became an honorary member of the veterans' association of HMCS Esquimalt.A key feature for the many readers interested in Second World War submarines is the technical section that provides a detailed pictorial tour of the Type IXC/40 U-boat, including many previously unpublished photographs discovered in Canadian archives.

This book is an extensive and colorful collection of translated German military documents, private letters and diaries relating to one of the most hard-fought battles of the Second World War. This rare material was gathered by the intelligence section of the American, British and Canadian armies and ranges from orders issued by Feldmarschall von Ru

One of the turning points in the War of 1812. In the fall of 1813 the largest army yet assembled by the United States invaded Canada, determined to capture Montreal. The courageous but ill-trained and badly led American forces were defeated by British, Canadian and native troops in two important the Battle of Chateuaguay and, above all, the Battle of Crysler's Farm, fought on a muddy field beside the St. Lawrence River.

Informative and colorful collection of translations of original orders, diaries, letters, after action reports, and even jokes, as well as Allied technical evaluations of German weapons, vehicles, equipment, and transcripts of prisoner of war interrogations -- Dust jacket.

Overwhelmed by the strength of the Allied air and ground forces following the D-Day landings, the Germans were compelled to abandon their efforts to hold France and much of the Low Countries and retreat to the Rhine. This book helps reveal the experience of German soldiers and armed forces personnel as they withdrew through a remarkable collection