In A Bridge of Ships James Pritchard tells the story of the rapidly changing circumstances and forceful personalities that shaped government shipbuilding policy. He examines the ownership and expansion ...

Boys and Girls in No Man's Land examines how the First World War entered the lives and imaginations of Canadian children. Drawing on educational materials, textbooks, adventure tales, plays, and Sunday-school ...

• The Militia Myth: Canadian Arms to Confederation
• Making an Army: Beginnings
• A Militia under Arms: Sam Hughes’s Army
• Becoming Professional: Arthur Currie’s Army
• Losing Professionalism: The Interwar ...

This groundbreaking book brings to a life a forgotten chapter in the history of Canada and Russia – the journey of 4,200 Canadian soldiers from Victoria to Vladivostok in 1918 to help defeat Bolshevism. ...

Robert Engen is a doctoral candidate in military history at Queen’s University, Kingston, and has worked as a researcher for the Canadian Forces Directorate of Land Concepts and Designs.

John MacFarlane is a historian with the Department of National Defence and author of Ernest Lapointe and Quebec’s Influence on Canadian Foreign Policy.

In 1942, RAF flight controller Robert Wyse became a Japanese prisoner of war on the island of Java in Indonesia. Starved, sick, beaten, and worked to near-death, he wasted away until he weighed only seventy ...

In 1957, Lester Pearson won the Nobel Peace Prize for creating the United Nations Emergency Force during the Suez crisis. The award launched Canada’s enthusiasm and reputation for peacekeeping. Pearson’s ...

Resurrecting Dr. Moss chronicles the life and death of Edward Lawton Moss, a Royal Navy surgeon on the last great British north polar expedition of the nineteenth century. Arctic historians and bibliophiles ...

More than 9 million Germans died as a result of deliberate Allied starvation and expulsion policies after World War II, one quarter of the country was annexed, and about 15 million people expelled in ...