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2013 – Year of anniversaries. Here are six major anniversaries that will be commemorated in 2013.
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Major events at Toronto to commemorate the bicentennial of the attack on York in 1813. 
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The Battle of Crysler's Farm, July 13-14, 2013, Upper Canada Village, Morrisburg, Ontario. 
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Donald and Dianne Graves to appear at major War of 1812 Conference, Annapolis, Maryland. 
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Dianne Graves’s In the Midst of Alarms adapted for the stage. 
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James Elliott’s Strange Fatality wins Ontario Historical Society J. J. Talman Award. 
Click on the title or cover for a fuller description of each book.
COMING THIS FALL – MAJOR NEW BOOK BY DONALD E. GRAVES
Donald E. Graves’s And All Their Glory Past is the long-awaited and eagerly-anticipated final book in his trilogy on the War of 1812 in the northern theatre. Coming in October.NEW AND RECENT TITLES
Now in a new format. Guns Across the River by Donald E. Graves, which tells the story of the tragi-comic 1838 attack on the windmill at Prescott, Ontario, by American Patriot Hunters, reappears in a new format in April 2013.
Now in paperback, to mark the 200th anniversary of the Battle of York (today’s Toronto). Robert Malcomson’s prize-winning Capital in Flames: The American Attack on York, 1813 recounts the attack on the frontier town of York that will be commemorated in April 2013.
The man who wrote “In Flanders Fields,” the poem that inspired Remembrance Day poppies.
Dianne Graves's wonderful book A Crown of Life: The World of John McCrae now appears (October 2012) in a handsome paperback edition with revised text and more photographs.
“Alarms” now available in paperback
In the Midst of Alarms: The Untold Story of Women and the War of 1812. Dianne Graves's acclaimed book is the only one to look at the experiences of women during the War of 1812. It is now available in a revised paperback edition.
Return of an old favourite, one of the best journals of the War of 1812
Merry Hearts Make Light Days: The War of 1812 Journal of Lieutenant John Le Couteur was named one of the five best books on the War of 1812 by Alan Taylor. Now this remarkable and enjoyable journal by the personable young British officer reappears in an attractive new edition with many more pictures and maps.
Now in stock …
The Hand of History: An Anthology of History Quotations and Commentaries will intrigue and entertain – for some it will even be addictive. Editor Michael Leventhal asked historians around the world to contribute their favourite quotations about history and to comment on their choices. The result is a fascinating compendium – at times droll, at times acerbic, but always provocative.
Published spring 2011, Jonathon Riley’s handsome biography of Isaac Brock
A Matter of Honour: The Life, Campaigns and Generalship of Isaac Brock. Jonathon Riley, himself a general with frontline experience, not only recounts the life of Brock but also provides a unique assessment of his skills as a military commander.
Back by popular demand… Another Place, Another Time. This handsomely illustrated book has become something of a U-boat classic since the hardcover edition was published in 2004. It is now published in paperback for the first time.
A Bard of Wolfe’s Army: James Thompson, Gentleman Volunteer, 1733-1830. The story of the sergeant of Fraser’s Highlanders who served at the Siege of Louisbourg, the Battle of the Plains of Abraham and the Battle of Sillery, and whose anecdotes are a unique record of soldiering in the Seven Years’ War.
Also available in a limited signed hardcover edition for collectors.
Dragon Rampant: The Royal Welch Fusiliers at War, 1793-1815. Donald E. Graves’s fans will greet his new book with enthusiasm. He returns to the Napoleonic period with his account of this famous regiment that was in the thick of the action on three continents and took part in the final triumph over Napoleon at Waterloo.
Strange Fatality: The Battle of Stoney Creek, 1813. Veteran journalist James Elliott’s award-winning account of the American invasion of the Niagara Peninsula that started well but turned bad in a nighttime bayonet battle that saw two American generals captured and cost General Henry Dearborn his job.
