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  1. The American Heritage Picture History of World War II
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1966
  2. Anthropologists, Spooks, and the Boys Who Went to War
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
  3. Armageddon
    The Battle for Germany 1944-45

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    An account of the prolonged allied battle for Germany between June 1944 and April 1945.
  4. Black Army of Hungary
    Wikipedia article

    Resource Type: Article
    The Black Army (Hungarian: Fekete sereg), "Black Legion" or "Regiment" - possibly named after their black armour panoply - is historiographicly the common name given to the military forces serving under the reign of King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary.
  5. Bloody Victory
    Canadians and the D-Day Campaign 1944

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
  6. Disobedience
    Introduction to the January 22, 2017 issue of Other Voices

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Ultimately all power structures depend on the obedience of those over whom they rule. It helps if people believe in the legitimacy of those who wield power, but the crucial thing is obedience. Once people start to disobey in significant numbers, the dynamic of power changes fundamentally. Disobedience, especially on a large scale, shakes the power of the rulers, and increases the power of those who disobey.
  7. Encyclopedia of Military History from 3,500 B.C. to the Present
    Resource Type: Book
  8. Forgotten Graffiti Sheds New Light on Long, Hot Journeys to Vietnam
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Inside a rusting former US army ship, historians found vivid details of the hopes and fears of soldiers bound for war.
  9. Fragging
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    The assassination of an unpopular officer by members of his own unit.
  10. French Army Mutinies (1917)
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Involved nearly half of the French infantry divisions stationed on the western front.
  11. The History of Costa Rica
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    An overview of Costa Rican history with an emphasis on how Costa Ricans have been able to make their own history, "though they do not make it just as they choose."
  12. History of the Second World War
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
  13. How to uncover your family's military roots
    Digitized records help Canadians leaf out family tree military history

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Researching a family's military history used to be a real challenge, but as more and more paper archives go digital and are transferred to the internet, it's becoming possible for anyone to leaf out a family tree in surprising detail by using a few tricks and knowing where to look.
  14. International Military and Defense Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Book
  15. The Invasion of Canada
    1812-1813

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1980
  16. Martial Matters
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    A selection of commentaries on Australian martial experience at radical odds with mainstream Australian histories.
  17. Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 17
    Marx and Engels 1859 - 1860

    Resource Type: Book
    Includes Herr Vogt and articles on military matters.
  18. Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 18
    Marx and Engels 1857 - 1862

    Resource Type: Book
    Articles for The New American Cyclopaedia.
  19. A Marxist History of the World part 13: China: the Ch'in Empire
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Neil Faulkner looks at the origins of the Ch'in Empire - short-lived, created by conquest and terror and characterised by extreme centralisation, military-style exploitation, and murderous repression.
  20. Merchant Navy Commemorative Theme Project
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
    During the Second World War, a total of 25,343 merchant ships, with 164,783,921 tons of cargo on-board, sailed from North America to Britain. However, the true cost of the war at sea was in human lives lost in defence of freedom - the Canadian Merchant Navy alone lost one seafarer in eight, out of the 12,000 that faithfully served their country.
  21. The Oxford Companion to World War II
    Resource Type: Book
    Written by an international team, its 1,750 entries cover many aspects of World War II. It contains pictures, diagrams, tables, and maps.
  22. The Patricias: A Century of Service
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2013
    There have been many books that have examined the various regiments of the Canadian Forces. But few have been written with the depth of expertise and wealth of imagery seen in The Patricias: A Century of Service.
  23. The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 1: From the Beginning to the Eve of the French Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
  24. The Role of Force in History
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1887
  25. Russian officer who prevented nuclear disaster in 1983
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Stanislav Petrov single handedly prevented the nuclear destruction of the United States and the USSR, and only a handful of Communist leaders knew about the apocalypse he averted.
  26. The Social History of The Machine Gun
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    Covers the history of the machine gun's development, the attitudes that effected its acceptance, and its relation to economic, political, and military history.
  27. Strategy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
  28. Svyazhsk
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1943
    Larissa Reissner's vivid description of the 1918 battle for Svyazhsk during the Russian Civil War.
  29. The Virtues of Mutiny and Desertion
    Two Christmas Anniversaries

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Christmas Eve also marks the famous 1914 “Christmas truce” when British and German soldiers crossed No Man’s Land to shake hands, play soccer, exchange souvenirs and sing carols to each other. The High Commands and politicians on both sides swiftly put an end to that foolishness. The war went on killing many millions.
  30. The War Amps
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  31. The War Atlas
    Armed Conflict, Armed Peace

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
  32. Wilfrid Laurier University
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  33. The 'Yellow Book' of the Armed Forces
    Confidential document of military top officials reveals persecution of government opponents during armed conflict.

    Resource Type: Unclassified
    Published: 2014
    The existence of a document, the 'Yellow Book', used by the El Salvador military to identify and target those believed to be opposed to the regime, has been revealed. Many of the individuals named in the document were subsequently killed, or arrested, imprisoned, and tortured.


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