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At the Sharp End

At the Sharp End

The first comprehensive history of Canadians in the Great War in more than forty years, At the Sharp End is a landmark work of military scholarship and gripping narrative. Featuring never-before-published photographs, letters, diaries, and maps, the book recounts the devastation and hard-won triumphs of the Great War through the soldiers' moving eyewitness accounts. Volume one of two.
 

Nixon in China

Nixon in China

In 1972, Richard Nixon became the first American president to go to China. The visit, planned in secret, amazed the world and marked the end of the deep-freeze in Sino-American relations that started with the Communist takeover in 1949. Drawing on newly available material from the United States and China, as well as from interviews with all major survivors, MacMillan re-examines that fateful week.