The Oxford Book of Canadian Military Anecdotes
Author: Victor Suthren
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1989, [i.e. 1991]
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780195408256
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The Oxford Book of Canadian Military Anecdotes
Author: Victor J. H. Suthren
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780195407112
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Gathers stories from the early explorers of New France, Loyalists in the American Revolution, the Northwest Rebellion, the Boer War, the First and Second World Wars, and peace-keeping efforts with the U.N.
The Oxford Companion to Canadian Military History
Author: J. L. Granatstein
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780195430882
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Their entries include concise biographies from James Wolfe to Louis Riel to Rick Hillier; key military-political issues like the conscription crises, war finance, and Canada-US relations; lesser-known conflicts such as the Pig War and the Aroostook War; and more recent issues facing the Canadian Forces, including sexual harassment and post-traumatic stress disorder. We see Canada through an international lens as a war fighter and a peacekeeper-and as a participant in some darker moments.
The Oxford Companion to Canadian Military History
Author: J. L. Granatstein
Publisher:
Published: 2016-10-24
Total Pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9780199028351
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The battle of Vimy Ridge, the Dieppe raid, the Italian Campaign: the Canadian military has been indispensable to many of the greatest victories - and disasters - of our time. The evolution of Canada as a military power is chronicled here by military historians J.L. Granatstein and Dean F.Oliver in this authoritative and highly readable book. Their entries include concise biographies from James Wolfe to Louis Riel to Rick Hillier; key military-political issues like the conscription crises, war finance, and Canada-US relations; lesser-known conflicts such as the Pig War and the Aroostook War; and more recent issues facing the CanadianForces, including sexual harassment and post-traumatic stress disorder. We see Canada through an international lens as a war fighter and a peacekeeper-and as a participant in some darker moments. Rare photographic material and original wartime paintings (reproduced in full colour) illustrate the people, events, and hardware that define Canada's military history. Additional material includes a timeline chart and a list of ministers and military chiefs. An authoritative guide and compellingread, The Oxford Companion to Canadian Military History reminds us of our collective history that we must continue to investigate, understand, and now-more than ever-remember.
The Oxford Book of Military Anecdotes
Author: Max Hastings
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 530
ISBN-13: 0195205286
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This colleciton of anecdotes is principally concerned with American and British conflicts. Hastings has sought stories that illustrate the military condition through the ages, both on the battlefield and in the barracks.
The Canadian Experience of the Great War
Author: Brian Douglas Tennyson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 595
ISBN-13: 0810886790
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Although the United States did not enter the First World War until April 1917, Canada enlisted the moment Great Britain engaged in the conflict in August 1914. The Canadian contribution was great, as more than 600,000 men and women served in the war effort--400,000 of them overseas--out of a population of 8 million. More than 150,000 were wounded and nearly 67,000 gave their lives. The war was a pivotal turning point in the history of the modern world, and its mindless slaughter shattered a generation and destroyed seemingly secure values. The literature that the First World War generated, and continues to generate so many years later, is enormous and addresses a multitude of cultural and social matters in the history of Canada and the war itself. Although many scholars have brilliantly analyzed the literature of the war, little has been done to catalog the writings of ordinary participants: men and women who served in the war and wrote about it but are not included among well-known poets, novelists, and memoirists. Indeed, we don't even know how many titles these people published, nor do we know how many more titles were added later by relatives who considered the recollections or collected letters worthy of publication. Brian Douglas Tennyson's The Canadian Experience of the Great War: A Guide to Memoirs is the first attempt to identify all of the published accounts of First World War experiences by Canadian veterans.
The New Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English
Author: Margaret Atwood
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A survey of Canada's leading writers features forty-seven stories, with new pieces by writers in the original Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories. Included are short stories by W. P. Kinsella, Morley Callaghan, Timothy Findlay, Matt Cohen, Alice Munro and Margaret Atwood.
Experience History
Author: Colin M. Bain
Publisher:
Published: 2006-04-19
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780195424317
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Canadian history provides a multitude of fascinating stories to engage the imaginations of both students and teachers. This full-colour, user-friendly text explores Canadian history from World War I to present, incorporating dramatic stories from real Canadians so that students experience the challenges and success of our growing country.
The Oxford Book of Theatrical Anecdotes
Author: Gyles Brandreth
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2020-10-08
Total Pages: 511
ISBN-13: 0191066524
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the ultimate anthology of theatrical anecdotes, edited by lifelong theatre-lover Gyles Brandreth in the Oxford tradition, and covering every kind of theatrical story and experience from the age of Shakespeare and Marlowe to the age of Stoppard and Mamet, from Richard Burbage to Richard Briers, from Nell Gwynn to Daniel Day-Lewis, from Sarah Bernhardt to Judi Dench. Players, playwrights, prompters, producers—they all feature. The Oxford Book of Theatrical Anecdotes provides a comprehensive, revealing, and hugely entertaining portrait of the world of theatre across four hundred years. Many of the anecdotes are humorous: all have something pertinent and illuminating to say about an aspect of theatrical life—whether it is the art of playwriting, the craft of covering up missed cues, the drama of the First Night, the nightmare of touring, or the secret ingredients of star quality. Edmund Kean, Henry Irving, John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier, Ellen Terry, Edith Evans, Maggie Smith, Helen Mirren—the great 'names' are all here, of course, but there are tales of the unexpected, too—and the unknown. This is a book—presented in five acts, with a suitably anecdotal and personal prologue from Gyles Brandreth—where, once in a while, the understudy takes centre-stage and Gyles Brandreth treats triumph and disaster just the same, including stories from the tattiest touring companies as well as from Broadway, the West End and theatres, large and small, in Australia, India, and across Europe.
The Oxford Book of English Short Stories
Author: Antonia Susan Byatt
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780192881113
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Oxford Book of English Short Stories, edited by A. S. Byatt, who has published several collections of short stories, is the first anthology to take the English short story as its theme. The thirty-seven stories featured here are selected from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, byauthors ranging from Dickens, Trollope, and Hardy to J. G. Ballard, Angela Carter, and Ian McEwan, though many draw ingeniously from the richness of earlier English literary writing. There are all sorts of threads of connection and contrast running through these stories. Their subjects vary from the sublime to the ridiculous, from the momentous to the trivial, from the grim to the farcical. There is English empiricism, English pragmatism, English starkness, English humour,English satire, English dandyism, English horror, and English whimsy. There are examples of social realism, from rural poverty to blitzed London; ghost stories and tales of the supernatural; surreal fantasy and science fiction. There are stories of sensibility, precisely delineated, from Hardy'sreluctant bride to the shocked heroine of Elizabeth Taylor's The Blush, from H. E. Bates's brilliant fusion of class, sex, death, and landscape, to D. H. Lawrence's exploration of a consciousness slowly detaching itself from its world. There are exuberant stories by Saki and Waugh, Wodehouse andFirbank, with a particularly English range from high irony to pure orchestrated farce. The very range and scope of the collection celebrates the eccentric differences and excellences of English short stories Some of A. S. Byatt's choices clearly take their place in the grand tradition of story-telling, while others are more unusual.Many break all the rules of unity of tone andnarrative, appearing to be one kind of story before unexpectedly turning into another. They pack together comedy and tragedy, farce and delicacy, elegance and the grotesque, with language as various as the subject-matter. As A. S. Byatt explains: 'My only criterion was that those stories I selectedshould be startling and satisfying, and if possible make the hairs on the neck prickle with excitement, aesthetic or narrative.'
