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Product Description: Designed for the general reader as well as the student of Canadian history, this book recounts the colourful story of our military's past through the personalities and accomplishments of its soldiers. The twenty-six chapters commence with the 1759 Battle of the Plains of Abraham and the stirring story of Loyalist soldiers during the American Revolution...read more

Traces the history of Great Britain's monarchies from King Egbert of Wessex in the ninth century to Queen Elizabeth II, with a concise summary of the reign of each monarch

In thirteenth-century France, humans seem uncivilized and the animals of the wild forest reveal an aristocratic hierarchy that provides mankind with an object lesson in grace, honor, and nobility

The pig Plantagenet cannot decide whether he likes the free but frightening life of his cousin, the boar Grondin, better than his own simple farmyard existence until a plan emerges to destroy the forest and its inhabitants