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Since its launch in 1992, Canadian Military History has become one of the premier journals in its field. CMH is a peer-reviewed academic journal published bi-annually by the Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada with editorial and financial support from the Canadian War Museum. Its purpose is to foster research, teaching and public discussion of historical and contemporary Canadian military and strategic issues.

Current Issue: Volume 34, Issue 2 (2025)

Articles

Lieutenant-Colonel Donald Mackenzie and the 48th Highlanders of Canada: A Study in Battalion Command and Officer Progression
Tyler Wentzell

The Clear-Up: The Anglo-American Experience in Southeastern Italy, 1943–1946
Amy Muschamp

A Clash of Conflicting Priorities: Why did the Battle for the Beveland Causeway last almost three weeks? 7 October - 24 October 1944
Robert W. Catsburg

“Mud, mud, mud to the right of us”: How Canadian Reconnaissance Regiments Adapted to the Terrain of the Scheldt Estuary
Victoria Sotvedt

Canadian War Museum Feature

Behind Barbed Wire: Jack Powerful Griss and the Material Culture of Dieppe POWs at Stalag VIII-B
Teresa Iacobelli

Feature

Remembering Tim Cook
Kevin Spooner

Book Reviews

Review of "For Russia with Hitler: White Russian Émigrés and the German-Soviet War" by Oleg Beyda
Matthew Barrett

Review of "Hitler’s Deserters: Breaking Ranks with the Wehrmacht" by Douglas Carl Peifer
Matthew Barrett

Review of "The Virtuous Wehrmacht: Crafting the Myth of the German Soldier on the Eastern Front, 1941-1944" by David A. Harrisville and "Prevail until the Bitter End: Germans in the Waning Years of World War II" by Alexandra Lohse
Matthew Barrett

Review of "World War Zoos: Humans and Other Animals in the Deadliest Conflict of the Modern Age" by John M. Kinder
Matthew Barrett

Review of "An Army of Never-Ending Strength: Reinforcing the Canadians in Northwest Europe, 1944-45" by Arthur W. Gullachsen
Daniel Byers

Review of "Canada’s Air Force: The Royal Canadian Air Force at 100" by David J. Bercuson
Adam Coombs

Review of "Frontier Science: Northern Canada, Military Research, and the Cold War, 1945-1970" by Matthew S. Wiseman
Adam Coombs

Review of "The Good Allies: How Canada and the United States Fought Together to Defeat Fascism in the Second World War" by Tim Cook
Scott Mair

Review of "The Ones We Let Down: Toxic Leadership Culture and Gender Integration in the Canadian Forces" by Charlotte Duval-Lantoine
Rebecca Murray

Review of "Trauma, Primitivism and the First World War: The Making of Frank Prewett" by Joy Porter
Rebecca Murray

Review of "The Age of the Gas Mask: How British Civilians Faced the Terrors of Total War" by Susan R. Grayzel
Kyle Pritchard

Review of "Canada and the Korean War: Histories and Legacies of a Cold War Conflict" edited by Andrew Burtch and Tim Cook
Tod Strickland

Review of "Soldiers in Peacemaking: The Role of the Military at the End of War, 1800–present" edited by Beatrice de Graaf, Frédéric Dessberg and Thomas Vaisset
Jean-Michel Turcotte