Verlag: Doubleday Canada, Limited January 2001, 2001
ISBN 10: 0385259956 ISBN 13: 9780385259958
Anbieter: Burke's Book Store, Memphis, TN, USA
Paperback. Zustand: Good. 0385259956 Thumbed with light corner bump, slight browning to pages, water spot and minor puckering to first few pages, else tight and clean.
Verlag: Doubleday Canada, Limited October 2001, 2001
ISBN 10: 0770428770 ISBN 13: 9780770428778
Anbieter: Pelican Bay Books, Anacortes, WA, USA
Mass Market Paperback. Zustand: Good.
Verlag: Doubleday Canada, 2001, 2001
ISBN 10: 0385259662 ISBN 13: 9780385259668
Anbieter: Dave Wilhelm Books, Evanston, IL, USA
Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Published in Canada. Full number line. Book and dust jacket solid VG condition.
Verlag: Toronto, ON: Doubleday Canada, 2001, 1st Edition, First Printing, Toronto, Ontario, 2001
ISBN 10: 0385257252 ISBN 13: 9780385257251
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Hard Cover. Zustand: Near Fine (see description). Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine (see description). Photo Cover (illustrator). First Edition. -----------( 1st printing of the First Edition ) ---hardcover, a Near Fine copy in a Near Fine dustjacket, signed and inscribed by Berton "Pierre Berton To Paul -best wishes Oct/01", , 632 pages, ---"From the Introduction ---"I have called this period Canada's Turbulent Years - turbulent not only because of the battles we fought on the African veldt, the ravaged meadows of Flanders, the forbidding spine of Italy, and the conical hills of Korea, but turbulent in other ways. These were Canada's formative years, when she resembled an adolescent, grappling with the problems of puberty, often at odds with her parents, craving to be treated as an adult, hungry for the acclaim of her peers, and wary of the dominating presence of a more sophisticated neighbour. --Canada's twentieth century can be divided roughly into two halves. All the wars and all the unnecessary battles in which Canadian youth was squandered belong to the first -from the autumn of 1899 to the summer of 1953. From the mid-1950s on, Canada has concerned itself not with war but with peace. --The first war of the century, which took Canadian soldiers to South Africa, and the last, which sent them to Korea, bracket the bookends on the shelf of history. They have a good deal in common with, these two minor conflicts, whose chronicles pale when compared to the bloodbaths of the two world wars. --Canada's wartime days are long past, and for many, the scars of war have healed. Vimy has been manicured clean, its pockmarked slopes softened by a green mantle of Canadian pines. Dieppe has reverted to a resort town, its beaches long since washed free of Canadian blood. Nowadays, Canadians are proud of their role as Peacekeepers, from which they have gained a modicum of international acclaim the nation has always craved, with precious little blood wasted in the process. --In this monumental work, Pierre Berton brings Canadian history to life once again, relying on a host of sources, including newspaper accounts and first-hand reports, to tell the story of these four wars through the eyes of the privates in the trenches, the generals at the front, and the politicians and families back home. By profiling the interwar years, Berton traces how one war led to the next, and how the country was changed in the process. Illustrated with maps and line drawings, Marching as to War describes how the experience of war helped to bind Canada together as a nation and chronicles the transformation of Canada's dependence upon Great Britain and its slow emergence as an independent nation caught in a love-hate relationship with the United States. "---, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo /// SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE/// ---sizes areapproximate (generally within 1/8 inch)--- Size: 6.5w x 9.75h Inches. Signed (see description). NOT Price Clipped.
Verlag: Doubleday Canada, Limited January 2001, 2001
ISBN 10: 0385658699 ISBN 13: 9780385658690
Anbieter: Pelican Bay Books, Anacortes, WA, USA
Trade Paperback. Zustand: Good.
Verlag: Canada, Doubleday, 2001., 2001
Anbieter: Grant's Bookshop, Cheltenham, VIC, Australien
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336pp. 8vo. Original boards in dustwrapper, lightly edgeworn. A very good copy. First edition. Signed.
Verlag: Doubleday, Canada, 2001, 2001
Anbieter: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, Neuseeland
Verbandsmitglied: IOBA
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First edition proof copy, SIGNED, black cloth, 309pp, VG (v sl bruised corners, proofer label to verso half title) d/w NF (v sl rubbed).
Verlag: Doubleday Canada Aug 2001, 2001
ISBN 10: 0385658419 ISBN 13: 9780385658416
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the four years between 1881 and 1885, Canada was forged into one nation by the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The Last Spike reconstructs the incredible story of how some 2,000 miles of steel crossed the continent in just five years exactly half the time stipulated in the contract. Pierre Berton recreates the adventures that were part of this vast undertaking: the railway on the brink of bankruptcy, with one hour between it and ruin; the extraordinary land boom of Winnipeg in 1881-1882; and the epic tale of how William Van Horne rushed 3,000 soldiers over a half-finished railway to quell the Riel Rebellion.Dominating the whole saga are the men who made it all possible a host of astonishing characters: Van Horne, the powerhouse behind the vision of a transcontinental railroad; Rogers, the eccentric surveyor; Onderdonk, the cool New Yorker; Stephen, the most emotional of businessmen; Father Lacombe, the black-robed voyageur; Sam Steele, of the North West Mounted Police; Gabriel Dumont, the Prince of the Prairies; more than 7,000 Chinese workers, toiling and dying in the canyons of the Fraser Valley; and many more land sharks, construction geniuses, politicians, and entrepreneurs all of whom played a role in the founding of the new Canada west of Ontario.
Verlag: Doubleday Canada Okt 2001, 2001
ISBN 10: 0385658435 ISBN 13: 9780385658430
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Over 1.5 million Canadians were on relief, one in five was a public dependant, and 70,000 young men travelled like hoboes. Ordinary citizens were rioting in the streets, but their demonstrations met with indifference, and dissidents were jailed. Canada emerged from the Great Depression a different nation.The most searing decade in Canada's history began with the stock market crash of 1929 and ended with the Second World War. With formidable story-telling powers, Berton reconstructs its engrossing events vividly: the Regina Riot, the Great Birth Control Trial, the black blizzards of the dust bowl and the rise of Social Credit. The extraordinary cast of characters includes Prime Minister Mackenzie King, who praised Hitler and Mussolini but thought Winston Churchill 'one of the most dangerous men I have ever known'; Maurice Duplessis, who padlocked the homes of private citizens for their political opinions; and Tim Buck, the Communist leader who narrowly escaped murder in Kingston Penitentiary.In this #1 best-selling book, Berton proves that Canada's political leaders failed to take the bold steps necessary to deal with the mass unemployment, drought and despair. A child of the era, he writes passionately of people starving in the midst of plenty.
Verlag: Doubleday Canada Aug 2001, 2001
ISBN 10: 0385658400 ISBN 13: 9780385658409
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In 1871, a tiny nation, just four years old it's population well below the 4 million mark determined that it would build the world's longest railroad across empty country, much of it unexplored. This decision bold to the point of recklessness was to change the lives of every man, woman and child in Canada and alter the shape of the nation.Using primary sources diaries, letters, unpublished manuscripts, public documents and newspapers Pierre Berton has reconstructed the incredible decade of the 1870s, when Canadians of every stripe contractors, politicians, financiers, surveyors, workingmen, journalists and entrepreneurs fought for the railway, or against it.The National Dream is above all else the story of people. It is the story of George McMullen, the brash young promoter who tried to blackmail the Prime Minister; of Marcus Smith, the crusty surveyor, so suspicious of authority he thought the Governor General was speculating in railway lands; of Sanford Fleming, the great engineer who invented Standard Time but who couldn't make up his mind about the best route for the railway. All these figures, and dozens more, including the political leaders of the era, come to life with all their human ambitions and failings.
Verlag: Canada: Doubleday, 2001, Canada, 2001
ISBN 10: 0385257511 ISBN 13: 9780385257510
Anbieter: Booksdoc, Russell, ON, Kanada
Charcoal HC Grey Letters. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. 1st Printing. looks unread; pp. 286+1; not price clipped.