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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 military and strategic issues.

Current Issue: Volume 33, Issue 2 (2024)

Articles

Bringing Servicewomen into Focus: Exploring Methods for Indexing Second World War Archival Photographs at Library and Archives Canada
Rebecca Murray

“We are now getting a Canadian occupation”: Liberators and the Liberated in the Nijmegen Salient, 1944-45
Eric McGeer

Feature

“Here come the Canadians … to restore our freedom to us”: “And we will praise God, when the Canadians … have vanished back to Canada”
Eric McGeer

Book Reviews

Review of "Combat Stress in Pre-modern Europe" edited by Owen Rees, Kathryn Hurlock and Jason Crowley
Matthew Barrett

Review of "Deserters of the First World War: The Home Front" by Andrea Hetherington
Matthew Barrett

Review of "For King and Country: The British Monarchy and the First World War" by Heather Jones
Matthew Barrett

Review of "The Second World War: An Illustrated History" by James Holland and Keith Burns (illustrator)
Matthew Barrett

Review of "Heavy and Continuous Sacrifice: New Zealand, Her Allies, and the Second World War" edited by Peter Cooke and John Crawford
Brian Bertosa

Review of "A Thirst for Wine and War: The Intoxication of French Soldiers on the Western Front" by Adam D. Zientek
Brian Bertosa

Review of "The Hardest Battle: The Canadian Corps and the Arras 1918 Campaign" by William F. Stewart
David Borys

Review of "Afterlives of War: A Descendants’ History" by Michael Roper
Tim Cook

Review of "Statesmen, Strategists & Diplomats: Canadian Prime Ministers and the Making of Foreign Policy" edited by Patrice Dutil and "Friends and Enemies: Essays in Canada’s Foreign Relations" by J.L. Granatstein
Tim Cook

Review of "Stalingrad Lives: Stories of Combat and Survival" by Ian Garner
Grant T. Harward

Review of "We Lived in Danger: From True Prairie Boy to Royal Regina Rifleman. A Western Canadian’s WWII Memoir" by Victor Hepburn Small
Geoffrey Hayes

Review of "Through Their Eyes: A Graphic History of Hill 70 and Canada’s First World War" by Matthew Barrett and Robert C. Engen
John R. Heckman

Review of "Traitor By Default: The Trials of Kanao Inouye, the Kamloops Kid" by Patrick Brode
Scott Mair

Review of "Warriors and Warships: Conflict on the Great Lakes and the Legacy of Point Frederick" by Robert D. Banks
Thomas Malcomson

Review of "Atrocity on the Atlantic: Attack on a Canadian Hospital Ship During the Great War" by Nate Hendley and "Asleep in the Deep: Nursing Sister Anna Stamers and the First World War" by Dianne Kelly
Craig Leslie Mantle

Review of "Battlefield Emotions in Late Antiquity: A Study of Fear and Motivation in Roman Military Treatises" by Łukasz Różycki
Lucas McMahon

Review of "The Spanish Blue Division on the Eastern Front, 1941-1945: War, Occupation, Memory" by Xosé M. Núnez Seixas
Ben H. Shepherd

Review of "I Can Only Paint: The Story of Battlefield Artist Mary Riter Hamilton" by Irene Gammel
Bradley Shoebottom

Review of "Hanged in Medicine Hat: Murders in a Nazi Prisoner-of-War Camp, and the Disturbing True Story of Canada’s Last Mass Execution" by Nathan M. Greenfield
Andrew Theobald

Review of "Enduring Alliance: A History of NATO and the Postwar Global Order" by Timothy Andrews Sayle
Jean-Michel Turcotte

Review of "A Samaritan State Revisited: Historical Perspectives on Canadian Foreign Aid" edited by Greg Donaghy and David Webster
Jonathon Zimmer