Books in the Studies in Canadian Military History series

This book explores how the Canadian Army prepared for the possibility of a Third World War and how its innovations and adaptations laid the groundwork for the evolution of our national army.

An intriguing account of Canada's role as a Pacific power during the crisis that led to war with Japan.

Militia Myths traces the cultural history of the citizen soldier from 1896 to 1921, an ideal that lay at the foundation of how Canadians experienced and remember the First World War.

The first and only book about the Canadian pacifists who refused to fight in the Great War.

Cynthia Toman analyzes how gender, war, and medical technology intersected to create a legitimate role for women in the masculine environment of the military and explores the incongruous expectations placed on military nurses as "officers and ladies."

The definitive account of Canadians who fought in the Spanish Civil War.

Examines the evolution of the military's interest in Aboriginal lands and its relationships with communities over the course of the twentieth century. This book explores how the Canadian military came to use Aboriginal lands for training purposes, and how the growth of Aboriginal assertiveness and activism has affected the land rights issue.

A comprehensive, at times intimate, portrait of Verdun and Verdunites, both English and French, during the Second World War.

This work provides a sustained analytical history of the Halifax Explosion, a defining event in the Canadian consciousness. It retraces the events preceding the disaster and the role of the military in its aftermath, analyzing the legal maneuvers, rhetoric, blunders and public controversy.

This fascinating investigation into the machinations of a divided navy tackles important questions of military professionalism, leadership, and identity.

Acclaimed historian and author Tim Cook (At the Sharp End) analyses where the practice of academic military history has come from and where it needs to go.

From labour conflicts to the black market to prostitution, this book examines the moral and social underbelly of Canada's Second World War.

A meticulously researched and groundbreaking study of the activities and motivations of the British Navy on North America's eastern seabord.

This book examines the explosive growth of the CIO in Canada during the Second World War, showing how cultural as well as economic forces were at work in the gritty work of union organizing.

The first book on the public relations efforts of the Canadian Army during the Second World War.

This insightful book offers an explanation for Canada's uncertain response to US ballistic missile defence initiatives from the 1950s to the present.

In detailing the complexities of buying fighter aircrafts for the RCAF in the early years of the Cold War, Wakelam also sheds light on contemporary procurement issues.

Corps Commanders explains how five very different Second World War British and Canadian generals fought their battles, and why they fought them in similar fashion.

A lavishly illustrated history of the Canadian Rangers and their evolving role as defenders and stewards of Canada's remote regions.

Commander A.F.C. Layard, RN, wrote almost daily in his diary from 1913 until 1947. The pivotal 1943-45 years of this edited volume offer an extraordinarily full and honest chronicle, revealing Layard's preoccupations, both with the daily details and with the strain and responsibility of wartime command at sea.

This insightful collection untangles the paradox of mobilizing a Canadian contribution to Britain's imperial wars - and forging a national identity in the process.

This richly illustrated book offers a multifaceted account of one of the most successful but overlooked Canadian battles of the First World War.

This insightful collection untangles the paradox of mobilizing a Canadian contribution to Britain's imperial wars - and forging a national identity in the process.

The senior Canadian officers of the Second World War learned how to fight a war on the job; for all of them, the weight of command was a burden to be borne.

In this eye-opening account of military law in the Great War, courts martials emerge not as brutal, merciless dispensers of frontline justice but as courts capable of mercy.

A complex, analytical yet accessible portrait of Bert Hoffmeister, who won more awards than any Canadian officer in the Second World War.

In Fight or Pay, Desmond Morton turns his eye to the stories of those who paid in lieu of fighting - the wives, mothers, and families left behind when soldiers went to war.

Commander A.F.C. Layard, RN, wrote almost daily in his diary from 1913 until 1947. The pivotal 1943-45 years of this edited volume offer an extraordinarily full and honest chronicle, revealing Layard's preoccupations, both with the daily details and with the strain and responsibility of wartime command at sea.