5 History / Military related eBooks

Nicholas Pocock, 1740-1821 (Conway's Marine Artists)
Doug Lennox, "Now You Know Canada: 150 Years of Fascinating Facts"
It Can't Last Forever: The 19th Battalion and the Canadian Corps in the First World War (Canadian Unit, Formation, and Command Histories) by David Campbell
Scott Malcomson, "One Drop of Blood: The American Misadventure of Race"
James R. Acker, "Scottsboro and Its Legacy: The Cases that Challenged American Legal and Social Justice"

Nicholas Pocock, 1740-1821 (Conway's Marine Artists)
Conway Maritime Press/Naval Institute Press | 1986 | ISBN: 0870219936 | English | 136 pages | PDF | 59 MB

Doug Lennox, "Now You Know Canada: 150 Years of Fascinating Facts"
ISBN: 1459739426 | 2017 | EPUB | 208 pages | 2 MB
A National Bestseller!
A new collection of the best Canadian trivia in honour of Canada’s 150th birthday.
Just in time for Canada’s 150th birthday comes this collection of the best in Canadian questions and answers, covering history, famous Canadians, sports, word origins, geography, and everything in between. In these pages, you’ll learn the answers to questions like:
Where did the word Canuck come from?
How did an aristocratic French girl become a Canadian Robinson Crusoe?
What famous explorer played hockey in the Arctic?
Who was the first black woman elected to Canada’s Parliament?
What unlikely team beat Canada for the gold medal for hockey in the 1936 Winter Olympics?
How did the Halifax Explosion occur?

It Can't Last Forever: The 19th Battalion and the Canadian Corps in the First World War (Canadian Unit, Formation, and Command Histories) by David Campbell
English | October 25th, 2017 | ISBN: 1771122366 | 682 Pages | EPUB | 58.33 MB
The 19th Battalion was an infantry unit that fought in many of the deadliest battles of the First World War. Hailing from Hamilton, Toronto, and other communities in southern Ontario and beyond, its members were ordinary men facing extraordinary challenges at the Somme, Vimy Ridge, Passchendaele, Amiens, and other battlefields on Europe?s Western Front.
Through his examination of official records and personal accounts, the author presents vivid descriptions and assessments of the rigours of training, the strains of trench warfare, the horrors of battle, and the camaraderie of life behind the front lines. From mobilization in 1914 to the return home in 1919, Campbell reveals the unique experiences of the battalion?s officers and men and situates their service within the broader context of the battalion?s parent formations?the 4th Infantry Brigade and the 2nd Division of the Canadian Corps. Readers will gain a fuller appreciation of the internal dynamics of an infantry battalion and how it functioned within the larger picture of Canadian operations.

Scott Malcomson, "One Drop of Blood: The American Misadventure of Race"
ISBN: 0374240795, 0374527946 | 2000 | EPUB | 544 pages | 2 MB
Why has a nation founded upon precepts of freedom and universal humanity continually produced, through its preoccupation with race, a divided and constrained populace? Scott Malcomson's search for an answer took him across the country–to the Cherokee Nation, an all-black town, and a white supremacist enclave in Oklahoma–back though the tangled red-white-and-black history of America from colonial times onward, and to his own childhood in racially fractured Oakland, California. By not only recounting our shared tragicomedy of race but helping us to own it–even to embrace it–this important book offers us a way at last to move beyond it.

James R. Acker, "Scottsboro and Its Legacy: The Cases that Challenged American Legal and Social Justice"
2007 | pages: 280 | ISBN: 0275990834 | PDF | 1,2 mb
Nine black teenagers were accused of raping two white women on a train in 1931 in northern Alabama. They were arrested, tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in the town of Scottsboro in little more than two weeks. The Scottsboro Boys case rapidly captured public attention and became a lightning rod for fundamental issues of social justice including racial discrimination, class oppression, and legal fairness. Involving years of appeals, the Scottsboro trials resulted in two landmark U.S. Supreme Court rulings and were a vortex for the sometimes-competing interests of the American Communist Party, the NAACP, and the young men themselves. The cases resulted in a damning portrayal of southern justice and corresponding social mores in several national and international media outlets, and in a spirited defense of the judicial system and prevailing cultural norms in other news reports, particularly in the South. Here, Acker details the alleged crimes, their legal aftermath, and their immediate and enduring social significance as evidenced in media portrayals and other forms of popular culture.