Through photographs, artwork, diaries and mementos, including a Memorial Cross presented to the mother of a fallen soldier, this book reveals deeply personal stories of life in service and on the home ...

It has often been observed that the First World War jolted Canada into nationhood, and as Mark Forsythe and Greg Dickson show in this compelling book, no province participated more eagerly in that transformation ...

With Fields of Fire, Terry Copp challenges the conventional view that the Canadian contribution to the Battle of Normandy was a “failure” – that the allies won only through the use of brute force, ...

In the first major study of the Royal Canadian Navy’s contribution to foreign policy, Nicholas Tracy takes a comprehensive look at the paradox that Canada faces in participating in a system of collective ...

Once known for peacekeeping, Canada is becoming a militarized nation whose apostles, the New Warriors, are fighting to shift public opinion. New Warrior zealots seek to transform postwar Canada’s central ...

In wartime, capturing the hearts and minds of the citizenry is arguably as important as victory on the battlefield. The Information Front explores the Canadian military’s use of public relations units ...

• 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.

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 ...