Vol. 32, No. 2 Summer / Autumn 2023Arrows, Bears and Secrets The Role of Intelligence in Decisions on the CF-105 Program ALAN BARNES Abstract: Newly available information has made it possible for the first time to examine the role of intelligence in decisions on the...
Vol. 32, No. 1 Winter / Spring 2023“By Reason of Age and Necessity” Pension Claims of Veterans of the War in South Africa AMY SHAW Abstract: Under the War Veterans Allowance Act (1930) some veterans of the War in South Africa (1899-1902) became eligible for support...
Vol. 31, No. 2 Summer / Autumn 2022Pursuit to Valenciennes 1918 The Fate of Soldiers at the Point of Capture BRIAN PASCAS Abstract: This article tracks the Canadian Corps’ pursuit of the retreating German army in the last weeks of the First World War. As French...
We would first like to thank Brittany Dunn for her terrific work as Managing Editor of Canadian Military History. Brittany worked through the pandemic with her usual efficiency and professionalism, and is stepping back to devote more time to her doctoral studies....
Vol. 31, No. 2 Summer / Autumn 2022"A Very Fine Plan in the Memory of Our Boys" Commemorating the Owen Sound Collegiate and Vocational Institute Second World War Dead DAVID ROSS ALEXANDER Abstract: The memorial plaques dedicated to the First and Second World War dead...
Michael LoCicero. A Midnight Massacre: The Night Operation on the Passchendaele Ridge, 2 December 1917: The Forgotten Last Act of the Third Battle of Ypres. Solihull, UK: Helion & Company, 2014. Pp. 517. By William F. Stewart, Independent Researcher This review...
Derek Grout. Thunder in the Skies: A Canadian Gunner in the Great War. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2015. Pp. 472. By Kyle Pritchard, Wilfrid Laurier University. The study of First World War diaries, both personal and operational, has grown considerably over the last two...
Iain E. Johnston-White. The British Commonwealth and Victory in the Second World War. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Pp. 319. By Brad St. Croix, University of Ottawa This review appears in Canadian Military History Vol. 28 No. 1 (2019). It is often said...
Mike Bechthold. Flying to Victory: Raymond Collishaw and the Western Desert Campaign, 1940-1941. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2017. Pp. 281. By David Stubbs, Independent Researcher This review appears in Canadian Military History Vol. 28...
Trevor Harvey. An Army of Brigadiers: British Brigade Commanders at the Battle of Arras 1917. Solihull, UK: Helion & Company, 2017. Pp. 433. By Tyler Wentzell This review appears in Canadian Military History Vol. 28 No. 1 (2019). The brigade level of...
Sarah Glassford. Mobilizing Mercy: A History of the Canadian Red Cross. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017. Pp. 408. By Adam Montgomery This review appears in Canadian Military History Vol. 28 No. 1 (2019). Sarah Glassford’s...
Barry Gough. From Classroom to Battlefield: Victoria High School and the First World War. Victoria: Heritage House Publishing, 2014. Pp. 224. By Sara Karn, Queen's University This review appears in Canadian Military History Vol. 28 No. 1 (2019). Barry...
D. Peter MacLeod. Backs to the Wall: The Battle of Sainte-Foy and the Conquest of Canada. Vancouver: Douglas and McIntyre, 2016. Pp. 253. By Steven Bright, Independent Researcher The first thing that strikes you in picking up Dr. Peter MacLeod’s Backs to the Wall: The...
David G. Morgan-Owen. The Fear of Invasion: Strategy, Politics, and British War Planning, 1880-1914. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. 250. By Alexander Maavara, Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies This review appears...
Priya Satia. Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution. New York: Penguin Press, 2018. Pp. 544. By Gordon Bannerman, University of Guelph-Humber This review appears in Canadian Military History Vol. 28 No. 1 (2019). In Empire of Guns:...
Peter Thorsheim. Waste into Weapons: Recycling in Britain during the Second World War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp 289. By Alex Souchen, International Dialogue on Underwater Munitions This review appears in Canadian Military History Vol. 27 No. 2...
Richard Holt. Filling the Ranks: Manpower in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1918. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017. Pp 384. By Curtis Robinson, Memorial University of Newfoundland This review appears in Canadian Military...
Kenneth W. Reynolds. The Bytown Gunners: The History of Ottawa’s Gunners. Ottawa: 30th Field Artillery Regiment, RCA, 2017. Pp. 320. By Major (ret’d) M.R. McNorgan, Independent Researcher The 30th Field Artillery...
Ahmet Diriker. 42nd Regiment – Gallipoli 1915. Translated by Ebru Diriker. Toronto: Lindenbrooks Publishing, 2018. Pp. 171. By Edward J. Erickson, Antalya Bilim University 42nd Regiment – Gallipoli 1915 is a narrative of an Ottoman infantry regiment at Gallipoli from...
Colin McCullough. Creating Canada's Peacekeeping Past. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2016. Pp. 255. By Thirstan Falconer, Fellow at the Centre on Foreign Policy and Federalism, St. Jerome’s University This review appears in Canadian...
Meghan Fitzpatrick. Invisible Scars: Mental Trauma and the Korean War. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2017. Pp. 196. By Russell W. Glenn, G2, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command This review appears in Canadian Military History Vol. 27 No. 2...
Daniel Byers. Zombie Army: The Canadian Army and Conscription in the Second World War. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2016. Pp. xviii + 324. By Brian Bertosa, Independent Researcher This review appears in Canadian Military History Vol. 27 No. 2...
Tim Cook. Vimy: The Battle and the Legend. Toronto: Allen Lane, 2017. Pp. 500. By Katrina J. Pasierbek, Wilfrid Laurier University This review appears in Canadian Military History Vol. 27 No. 2 (2018). Throughout the four years that have marked the centenary of the...
Andrew Buchanan. American Grand Strategy in the Mediterranean during World War II. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. 311. By Alexander Salt, University of Calgary This review appears in Canadian Military History Vol. 27 No. 2 (2018). The Mediterranean...
Andrew Taylor. Two Years Below the Horn: Operation Tabarin, Field Science, and Antarctic Sovereignty, 1944–1946. Eds. Daniel Heidt and P. Whitney Lackenbauer. Winnipeg, MB: University of Manitoba Press, 2017. Pp. 496. By Matthew S. Wiseman, University of Toronto This...
Patrick Dennis. Reluctant Warriors: Canadian Conscripts and the Great War. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2017. Pp. ix + 311. By David Borys, University of British Columbia This review appears in Canadian Military History Vol. 27 No. 2 (2018)....
Bohdan S. Kordan. No Free Man: Canada, the Great War, and the Enemy Alien Experience. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016. Pp. 394. By Richard Roy, Independent Researcher This review appears in Canadian Military History Vol. 27 No. 2 (2018)....
D. Peter MacLeod. Backs to the Wall: The Battle of Sainte-Foy and the Conquest of Canada. Vancouver: Douglas and McIntyre, 2016. Pp. 253. By Steven Bright, Independent Researcher This review appears in Canadian Military History Vol. 28 No. 1 (2019). The first thing...
Ronald McCrum. The Men Who Lost Singapore, 1938-1942. Singapore: NUS Press, 2017. Pp. xvi + 265. By Brian Bertosa, Independent Researcher This review will appear in Canadian Military History Vol. 28 No. 2 (2019). Just after midnight on 8 December 1941, Japanese troops...
Peter C. Conrad. Training Aces: Canada’s Air Training During the First World War. Markham, ON: BookLand Press, 2015. Pp. 231. By Brian Douglas Tennyson, Cape Breton University This review appears in Canadian Military History Vol. 27 No. 1 (2018). Readers of this...
Ian McKay and Jamie Swift. The Vimy Trap: Or, How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Great War. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2016. Pp. 372. By Geoffrey Hayes, University of Waterloo This review appears in Canadian Military History Vol. 27 No. 1 (2018). This is...
Marc Milner. Stopping the Panzers: The Untold Story of D-Day. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2014. Pp. 375. By Brad St. Croix, University of Ottawa This review appears in Canadian Military History Vol. 27 No. 1 (2018). Stories of Canadian soldiers...
Cynthia Toman. Sister Soldiers of the Great War: The Nurses of the Canadian Army Medical Corps. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2016. Pp. 312. By Eliza Richardson, Wilfrid Laurier University This review appears in Canadian Military History Vol. 27 No....
Robert Engen. Strangers in Arms: Combat Motivation in the Canadian Army, 1943-1945. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016. Pp. 328. By Russell W. Glenn, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command G2 This review appears in Canadian Military History...
Timothy C. Winegard. The First World Oil War. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016. Pp. 416. By Corbin Williamson, Air War College This review appears in Canadian Military History Vol. 27 No. 1 (2018). Timothy Winegard seeks to highlight the role of oil in...
David James Gill. Britain and the Bomb: Nuclear Diplomacy, 1964-1970. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2014. Pp. 299. By Joseph A. Buscemi, University of Waterloo This review appears in Canadian Military History Vol. 27 No. 1 (2018). Compared to the others...
Matthew Evenden. Allied Power: Mobilizing Hydro-electricity during Canada’s Second World War. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015. Pp. 273. By Brian Bertosa, Independent Researcher This review appears in Canadian Military History Vol. 27 No. 1 (2018). By the...
Bruce Dancis. Resister: A Story of Protest and Prison during the Vietnam War. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2014. Pp. 371. By Jeremy Maxwell, Park University This review appears in Canadian Military History Vol. 27 No. 1 (2018). The 1960s were a time of great...
Brian D. McInnes. Sounding Thunder: The Stories of Francis Pegahmagabow. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2015. Pp. 221. By Eric Story, Wilfrid Laurier University This review appears in Canadian Military History Vol. 27 No. 1 (2018). Many will have heard the...
Megan MacKenzie. Beyond the Band of Brothers: The US Military and the Myth that Women Can’t Fight. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. 220. By Russell Isinger, University of Saskatchewan This review appears in Canadian Military History Vol. 27 No. 1...