BIRDSELL, SANDRA

Russlander, the

McClelland & Stewart, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0771014503. First Edition. Grey Hardcovers, black titles to the spine. In Near Fine condition with a sound binding, bright, unmarked pages. Very light spine end bumping. The DJ is unclipped and in Near Fine condition. "Katherine (Katya) Vogt is now an old woman living in Winnipeg, but the story of how she and her family came to Canada begins in Russia in 1910, on a wealthy Mennonite estate. Here they lived in a world bounded by the prosperity of their landlords and by the poverty and disgruntlement of the Russian workers who toil on the estate. But in the wake of the First World War, the tensions engulfing the country begin to intrude on the community, leading to an unspeakable act of violence. "; 9.3 X 6.0 X 1.4 inches; 360 pages. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 26375

Catalogue: Fiction, Historical, World War 1

Keywords: 0771014503 Ficiton > Canada Historical Ficiton World War , 1914 - 1918 1900-1918

BIRDSELL, SANDRA

Russlander, the

McClelland & Stewart, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0771014503. First Edition. Grey Hardcovers, black titles to the spine. In Near Fine condition with a sound binding, bright, unmarked pages. Very light spine end bumping. The DJ is unclipped and in Near Fine condition. "Katherine (Katya) Vogt is now an old woman living in Winnipeg, but the story of how she and her family came to Canada begins in Russia in 1910, on a wealthy Mennonite estate. Here they lived in a world bounded by the prosperity of their landlords and by the poverty and disgruntlement of the Russian workers who toil on the estate. But in the wake of the First World War, the tensions engulfing the country begin to intrude on the community, leading to an unspeakable act of violence. "; 9.3 X 6.0 X 1.4 inches; 360 pages. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 26375

Catalogue: Fiction, Historical, World War 1

Keywords: 0771014503 Ficiton > Canada Historical Ficiton World War , 1914 - 1918 1900-1918

LONDON TIMES

Times History of the War. The Battlefield of Europe.

Woodward & Van Slyke, Inc, 1914. Hardcover. Black Hardcovers, red titles and border to the cover, in Very Good++ condition. A sound binding, the pages are bright & unmarked, no notes etc. There is spine end and corner bumping. There is a plethora of maps, photographs and illustrations through the book. Tipped in advertisement for purchase of a European wall map. Extensive discussion and illustrations of the WWI European military situation. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 366 pages. Very Good+ .

Bytown BookeryProfessional seller

Book number: 22502

Catalogue: History, World War 1, Great Britain, Germany

Keywords: World War , 1914 - 1918 Military War France England Germany & German Language

REYNOLDS FRANCIS J. , ALLEN L. CHURCHILL

World's War Events

New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1919. Hardcover. Green hard boards with black titles to the spine. This copy is in good, not great condition, the end papers are missing and there is a crack in the front and back crease. There are no loose pages and the text is unmarked. "Recorded by Statesmen, Commanders, Historians, and by men who fought of saw the great campaigns. "; Maps; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 384 pages. Good with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 7305

Catalogue: World War 1

Keywords: History Military War

ROBERTSON PETER

Irréductible Vérité: Les Photographes Militaires Canadiens Depuis 1885 = Relentless Verity : Canadian Military Photographers Since 1885 / Irréductible Vérité: Les Photographes Militaires Canadiens Depuis 1885

The Public Archives of Canada Series / University of Toronto Press, 1973. Cloth, hardcover. ISBN: 0802020992. Black hard boards, bumping to the spine ends and light edgewear. An insciption to the previous owner on the front free end paper. Very well bound with a bright & unmarked interior. The text is in both languages, French & English. The DJ is unclipped with heavy scuffing to the covers, chipping to the spine and edgewear. "This is one of the Public Archives of Canada series. This introduction to the history of Canadian military photography contains biographies of each of the 13 photographers represented, as well as 158 full page photographs. The photographs span the period from 1885 to 1970, beginning with pictures of the battle of Batoche and the captured Louis Riel by Captain James Peters. Includes army expedition to the Yukon." ; B&W Photographs; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 233 pages. Very Good in Fair dust jacket .

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Book number: 7476

Catalogue: World War 1

Keywords: 0802020992 War Photographers Pictorial Works Photography Military War

SOLZHENITSYN ALEXANDER, GLENNY MICHAEL, (TRANSLATOR)

August 1914

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1972. Hardcover. ISBN: 0374106843. Brilliant orange cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and cover. Spine bumping with a clean text and a solid binding. Book Club Ed. The DJ has some minor edgewear and scuffing, one small tear on the front spine hinge. " Paste down & end-papers show maps of 'The Battle Area Of Tannenberg 1914.' " Solzhenitsyn's epic of World War I and the roots of the Russian Revolution. He provides a sweeping look at a society that is trapped by a disastrous war, ruled by an ineffectual tsar, and on the brink of enormous changes that will affect the entire world. Mingling actual characters--Lenin, Tsar Nicholas and his family--with fictional ones, Solznehitsyn vividly dramatizes a crucial moment in Russian history. "; Book Club Edition; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 622 pages. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 2427

Catalogue: World War 1

Keywords: 0374106843 World War 1914-1918 Tannenberg, Battle of 1914 History Military War Russia / Ussr Soviet Union

TUCHMAN BARBARA W.

Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series

New York: The MacMillan Company, 1966. . Black Hardcovers in very Good+ condition. A sound binding, the pages are clean & bright, a small tear to the front cover top right hand cover. The DJ is in Fair condition with spine browning, chipping along the bottom edge of the covers. Book of the month. "During the fateful quarter century leading up to World War I, the climax of a century of rapid, unprecedented change, a privileged few enjoyed Olympian luxury as the underclass was “heaving in its pain, its power, and its hate. ” In The Proud Tower, Barbara W. Tuchman brings the era to vivid life: the decline of the Edwardian aristocracy; the Anarchists of Europe and America; Germany and its self-depicted hero, Richard Strauss; Diaghilev’s Russian ballet and Stravinsky’s music; the Dreyfus Affair; the Peace Conferences in The Hague; and the enthusiasm and tragedy of Socialism, epitomized by the assassination of Jean Jaurès on the night the Great War began and an epoch came to a close." ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 528 pages. Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket .

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Book number: 26356

Catalogue: History, European History, World War 1

Keywords: History > World War 1 European History Politics Politics History War Europe