Book Reviews
If you are interested in reviewing a book listed below or wish to propose a review of any recently published title in the field of military history, please contact the book review editor at: bookreviews@studyofcanada.caRecent, New and Forthcoming Books in Military History
Military History/ War and Society (Canada)
Alan Bowker, A Church at War: MacKay Presbyterian Church, New Edinburgh, and the First World War (University of Ottawa Press, 2024).
Patrick H. Brennan, Onward: The King's Own Calgary Regiment in Peace and War, 1910-1960 (University of Calgary Press, 2025).
Colin Campbell, A Wartime Finance Minister: The Economic Legacy of J.L. Ilsley (UBC Press, 2026).
John Conrad, Our Dry Cellar: Lessons in Military Logistics from the Afghanistan War (Dundurn, 2026).
Jack Cunningham and John Meehan, eds., Chrétien and the World: Canadian Foreign Policy from 1993 to 2003 (UBC Press, 2025).
Michael A. Dorosh, Calgary's Infantry Regiment: A Pictorial History of the Calgary Highlanders (Goose Lane, 2024).
Allan English, From Failure to Failure: The Canadian Military’s Attempts to Manage Its Sexual Misconduct Crises, 2000–2022 (FriesenPress, 2025).
Barry Gough, The Curious Passage of Richard Blanshard: First Governor of Vancouver Island (Harbour Publishing, 2023).
Roman Johann Jarymowycz, The History of the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada: 3 Volumes, 1759-2022 (MQUP, 2023).
Peter Kasurak, The Unequal Dialogue: Canadian Civil-Military Relations, 1950–2025 (UBC Press, 2026).
Richard Mayne and Mike Bechthold, eds., The Air Marshals: Canadian Air Force Commanders, 1920–1964 (UBC Press, 2026).
Patricia McMahon and Robert Bothwell, In the Shadow of the Manhattan Project: Radium, Fraud, and Secrecy at Eldorado (UBC Press, 2026).
Marc Milner, Second Front: Anglo-American Rivalry and the Hidden Story of the Normandy Campaign (Yale University Press, 2025).
Paul McNicholls, Canadians on the Veldt: Canada and the Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902 (Helion, 2026).
Michael Petrou, Tim Cook, and Andrew Burtch, eds., Ripples of War: The Canadian Veteran Experience (UBC Press, 2026).
Brian Tennyson, No Regrets: The Rise and Fall of Sir William Hearst (UofT Press, 2026).
Richard Tomczak, Workers of War and Empire from New France to British America, 1688–1783 (MQUP, 2025).
Anton Wagner, The Spiritualist Prime Minister: Volume 1: Mackenzie King and the New Revelation; and Volume 2: Mackenzie King and his Mediums (White Crow Books, 2024).
Randall Wakelam, William March and Peter Rayls, eds., On the Wings of War and Peace: The RCAF during the Early Cold War (UTP, 2023).
Military History/ War and Society (U.S./International)
Maartje Abbenhuis, The Dum-Dum Bullet: A Lethal History, 1850–1950 (Cambridge University Press, 2026).
Dan Altman, Taking Territory: The Persistence of Conquest Since 1945 (Cornell University Press, 2026).
Bianca Baggiarini, Governing Military Sacrifice: Drones, Privatization, and the Future of War (UofT Press, 2026).
Mike Bechthold, ed. Airpower and the Normandy Campaign (Naval Institute Press, 2025).
Jadwiga Biskupska and Sara B. Castro, eds., Shots in the Dark: Experimentation, Success, and Failure in the Second World War (Fordham University Press, 2025).
Richard Breitman, A Calculated Restraint: What Allied Leaders Said about the Holocaust (Harvard University Press, 2025).
Andrew Buchanan and Ruth Lawlor, eds. The Greater Second World War: Global Perspectives (Cornell University Press, 2025).
Stephen Buono, The Province of All Mankind: How Outer Space Became American Foreign Policy (Cornell University Press, 2025).
Hilary R. Buxton, Disabled Empire: The Colonial Body in First World War (University of Chicago Press, 2026).
Steven Casey, The Sceptic Isle: How the British Government Sold the Second World War (Oxford University Press, 2026).
Gianluca Fantoni, Soldiers, Angels, and Avengers: A History of the Jewish Brigade (MQUP, 2026).
Jonathan Fennell, Collapse: A Global History of the Second World War, 1931-1941 (Simon & Shuster, 2026).
Grant H. Golub, Warriors in Washington: Henry Stimson, the US Army, and the Politics of American Power in World War II (Cambridge University Press, 2025).
Matthieu Grandpierron, Nostalgic Virility as a Cause of War: How Leaders of Great Powers Cope with Status Decline (MQUP, 2024).
Jeffrey W. Jones, Smoke, Mirrors and Memories: Legacies of the Soviet-Afghan War (UofT Press, 2025).
Anthony King, AI, Automation, and War: The Rise of a Military-Tech Complex (Princeton University Press, 2025).
S. P. Mackenzie, RAF Aircrew at War: A Sensory History, 1939-1945 (Oxford University Press, 2026).
Alexander Mikaberidze, The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History (Oxford University Press, 2025).
Colleen M. Moore, The Peasants’ War: Russia’s Home Front in the First World War and the End of the Autocracy (MQUP, 2025).
Rob More, The Dummy Drome (Whittles Publishing, 2025).
William Mulligan, The Fraying Bonds of Peace: Economic Origins of the First World (Cambridge University Press, 2026).
David Nasaw, The Wounded Generation: Coming Home After World War II (Penguin, 2025).
Matthew Neufeld, Early Modern Naval Health Care in England, 1650–1750 (MQUP, 2024).
Bruce Oliver Newsome, Sir Basil Liddell Hart: Life, Thought, Legacy (Perseublishing, 2024).
Aleksandra Pomiecko, Bound by Exclusion and Violence: A History of Belarusian Armed Struggle in the Twentieth Century (UofT Press, 2025).
Elizabeth Roberts-Pedersen, Human Salvage: Soldiers, Civilians, and Psychiatry in the Second World War (Cambridge University Press, 2026).
Ryan Wadle and Paul J. Springer, eds., The Afghanistan War Encyclopedia (Bloomsbury, 2026).
Under Review
Eric M. Adams and Jordan Stanger-Ross, Challenging Exile: Japanese Canadians and the Wartime Constitution (UBC Press, 2025).
Susan Armstrong-Reid, Behead and Cure: Humanitarian Work in the Vietnam War (MQUP, 2025).
Dan Azoulay, Venus Passing: The Great War and the Death of Canadian Romance (FriesenPress, 2025).
Alan Barnes, Watching the Bear: Canadian Intelligence Assessments of the Soviet Threat to North America, 1946–1964 (UBC Press, 2025).
Tim Cook, Adrian Shubert, and Marcel Martel, eds. Wars of Conviction: A History of Canadian Transnational Fighters (MQUP, 2026).
Patrice Dutil, ed., The Enduring Riddle of Mackenzie King (UBC Press, 2025).
Richard Gimblett and Karl Gagnon, Guardians of the North: Canadian Warships and Maritime Aircraft, 1910–2025 (Dundurn, 2025).
Aron Heller, Zaidy's Band: The Untold Stories of a Jewish Band of Brothers in World War II (UofT Press, 2025).
William S. Kiser, The Business of Killing Indians: Scalp Warfare and the Violent Conquest of North America (Yale University Press, 2025).
Bohdan S. Kordan, No Place Like Home: Enemy Alien Internment in Canada during the Great War (MQUP Press, 2025).
Tim Luckhurst, Reporting the Second World War: The Press and the People, 1939-1945 (Bloomsbury, 2023).
Brandon Marriott, Till We Meet Again: A Canadian in the First World War (Simon & Schuster, 2025).
Ken McGoogan, Searching for Franklin New Light on History’s Worst Arctic Disaster (Harbour Publishing, 2023).
Paolo Tripodi, Rwanda 1994: A Failure of Leadership and a Preventable Genocide (Marine Corps University, 2025).
Matthew Trudgen, Securing the Continental Skies: The Development of North American Air Defence Co-operation, 1945–1958 (MQUP Press, 2025).
Alexander Wilson, Jonathan Fennell and Richard Hammond, The Peoples’ War?: The Second World War in Sociopolitical Perspective (MQUP, 2022).
