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:...