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.caBooks Available for Review
Military History/ War and Society (Canada)
Eric M. Adams and Jordan Stanger-Ross, Challenging Exile: Japanese Canadians and the Wartime Constitution (UBC Press, 2025).
Dan Azoulay, Venus Passing: The Great War and the Death of Canadian Romance (FriesenPress, 2025).
Alan Bowker, A Church at War: MacKay Presbyterian Church, New Edinburgh, and the First World War (University of Ottawa Press, 2024).
Christian Anye Crouch, Nobility Lost: French and Canadian Martial Cultures, Indians, and the End of New France (Cornell University Press, 2025).
Jack Cunningham and John Meehan, eds., Chrétien and the World: Canadian Foreign Policy from 1993 to 2003 (UBC Press, 2025).
Louise Dechêne, translated by Peter Feldstein, People, State, and War under the French Regime in Canada (MQUP, 2021).
Michael A. Dorosh, Calgary's Infantry Regiment (Goose Lane, 2024).
Madelaine Drohan, He Did Not Conquer: Benjamin Franklin's Failure to Annex Canada (Dundurn, 2025).
Patrice Dutil, ed., The Enduring Riddle of Mackenzie King (UBC Press, 2025).
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).
Aron Heller, Zaidy's Band: The Untold Stories of a Jewish Band of Brothers in World War II (UofT Press, 2025).
Ken McGoogan, Searching for Franklin New Light on History’s Worst Arctic Disaster (Harbour Publishing, 2023).
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, 2024).
Linda Nissen Samuels, The Man Under the Radar: A Biography of Jack Nissenthall (Chiselbury Publishing, 2022).
Brian Tennyson, No Regrets: The Rise and Fall of Sir William Hearst (UofT Press, 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 (University of Toronto Press, 2023).
Military History/ War and Society (U.S./International)
Mike Bechthold, ed. Airpower and the Normandy Campaign (Naval Institute 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).
Jeffrey R. Cares and Anthony Cowden, Fighting the Fleet: Operational Art and Modern Fleet Combat (Naval Institute Press, 2022).
Mark Celinscak, Kingdom of Night: Witnesses to the Holocaust (University of Toronto Press, 2022).
Emmanuel Destenay, Shadows from the Trenches. Veterans of the Great War and the Irish Revolution (1918-1923) (University College Dublin Press, 2021).
Stan Fisher, Sustaining the Carrier War: The Deployment of U.S. Naval Air Power to the Pacific (Naval Institute Press, 2023).
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 (McGill-Queen's University, 2024).
Nathaniel Jarrett, The Lion at Dawn: Forging British Strategy in the Age of the French Revolution, 1783–1797 (University of Oklahoma Press, 2022).
William S. Kiser, The Business of Killing Indians: Scalp Warfare and the Violent Conquest of North America (Yale University Press, 2025).
Herbert Lin, Cyber Threats and Nuclear Weapons (Stanford University Press, 2021).
Alexander Mikaberidze, The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History (Oxford University Press, 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).
Michal Onderco, Networked Nonproliferation: Making the NPT Permanent (Stanford University Press, 2021).
Vincent P. O’Hara and Leonard R. Heinz, Innovating Victory: Naval Technology in Three Wars (Naval Institute Press, 2022).
Françoise Passera and Jean Quellien, Les normands dans la guerre: Le temps des épreuves 1939-1945 (Tallandier, 2021).
Philip C. Shackelford, Rise of the Mavericks: The U.S. Air Force Security Service and the Cold War (Naval Institute Press, 2023).
Thomas Sheppard, Commanding Petty Despots: The American Navy in the New Republic (Naval Institute Press, 2022).
Ernest Snowden and Robert F. Wood, Maritime Unmanned: From Global Hawk to Triton (Naval Institute Press, 2022).
Paolo Tripodi, Rwanda 1994: A Failure of Leadership and a Preventable Genocide (Marine Corps University, 2025).
Kari Weil, Precarious Partners: Horses and Their Humans in Nineteenth-Century France (University of Chicago Press, 2020).
Under Review
Nahlah Ayed, The War We Won Apart: The Untold Story of Two Elite Agents Who Became One of the Most Decorated Couples of WWII (Penguin, 2024).
Alan Barnes, Watching the Bear: Canadian Intelligence Assessments of the Soviet Threat to North America, 1946–1964 (UBC Press, 2025).
David J. Bercuson, Canada’s Air Force: The Royal Canadian Air Force at 100 (University of Toronto Press, 2024).
Oleg Beyda, For Russia with Hitler: White Russian Émigrés and the German-Soviet War (University of Toronto Press, 2024).
Alexandra Birch, Hitler’s Twilight of the Gods: Music and the Orchestration of War and Genocide in Europe (University of Toronto Press, 2025).
Carl Bouchard and Norman Ingram, eds., Beyond the Great War: Making Peace in a Disordered World (University of Toronto Press, 2022).
David A. Borys, Punching Above Our Weight: The Canadian Military at War Since 1867 (Dundurn, 2024).
Rick Blom, Hunger: How Food Shaped the Course of the First World War (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2019).
Laurence M. Burke, At the Dawn of Airpower: The U.S. Army, Navy, and Marine Corps’ Approach to the Airplane, 1907-1917 (Naval Institute Press, 2022).
Andrew Burtch and Tim Cook, eds., Canada and the Korean War: Histories and Legacies of a Cold War Conflict (UBC Press, 2024).
Isabel Campbell, ed. Cold War Workers: Labour, Family, and Community in a Nuclear State (MQUP, 2025).
Mark Connelly, Postcards from the Western Front: Pilgrims, Veterans, and Tourists after the Great War (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022).
Tim Cook, The Good Allies: How Canada and the United States Fought Together to Defeat Fascism during the Second World War (Penguin, 2024).
Jeremy A. Crang, Sisters in Arms: Women in the British Armed Forces During the Second World War (Cambridge University Press, 2020).
John M. Curatola, Autumn of Our Discontent: Fall 1949 and the Crises in American National Security (Naval Institute Press, 2022).
Renée Dickason, Delphine Letort, Michel Prum and Stéphanie A.H. Bélanger, eds., War and Remembrance: Recollecting and Representing War (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022).
M. Girard Dorsey, Holding Their Breath: How the Allies Confronted the Threat of Chemical Warfare in World War II (Cornell University Press, 2023).
Charlotte Duval-Lantoine, The Ones We Let Down: Toxic Leadership Culture and Gender Integration in the Canadian Forces (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022).
Ian Germani, Dying for France: Experiencing and Representing the Soldier’s Death, 1500–2000 (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023).
Richard Gimblett and Karl Gagnon, Guardians of the North: Canadian Warships and Maritime Aircraft, 1910–2025 (Dundurn, 2025).
J.L. Granatstein, Canada's Army: Waging War and Keeping the Peace, 3rd ed. (University of Toronto Press, 2021).
Arthur W. Gullachsen, An Army of Never-Ending Strength: Reinforcing the Canadians in Northwest Europe, 1944–45 (University of British Columbia Press, 2021).
Arthur W. Gullachsen, Bloody Verrieres: The I. SS-Panzerkorps Defence of the Verrieres-Bourguebus Ridges: Volume 1 - Operations Goodwood and Atlantic, 18–22 July 1944 (Casemate Ipm, 2022).
Arthur W. Gullachsen, Bloody Verrieres: The I. SS-Panzerkorps Defence of the Verrieres-Bourguebus Ridges: Volume II: The Defeat of Operation Spring and the Battles of Tilly-la-Campagne, 23 July-5 August 1944 (Casemate Ipm, 2022).
Tobias Hof, Galeazzo Ciano: The Fascist Pretender (University of Toronto Press, 2021).
Gregory M.W. Kennedy, Lost in the Crowd: Acadian Soldiers of Canada's First World War (MQUP, 2024).
Bohdan S. Kordan, No Place Like Home: Enemy Alien Internment in Canada during the Great War (MQUP Press, 2025).
Pascal Levesque, Frontline Justice: The Evolution and Reform of Summary Trials in the Canadian Armed Forces (MQUP Press, 2020).
Brandon Marriott, Till We Meet Again: A Canadian in the First World War (Simon & Schuster, 2025).
David S. Nasca, The Emergence of American Amphibious Warfare, 1898–1945 (Naval Institute Press, 2020).
John Andreas Olsen, Airpower Pioneers: From Billy Mitchell to Dave Deptula (Naval Institute Press, 2023).
Jacques R. Pauwels, Myths of Modern History: From the French Revolution to the 20th century world wars and the Cold War (James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers, 2022).
Joy Porter, Trauma, Primitivism and the First World War: The Making of Frank Prewett (Bloomsbury, 2021).
Andrew Sangster, The Futile Pursuit of Power: Why Mussolini Executed His Son-in-Law (Whittles Publishing, 2023).
Timothy Andrews Sayle, The Next War: Indications Intelligence in the Early Cold War (University of Calgary Press, 2025).
Carla-Jean Stokes, The Taking of Vimy Ridge: First World War Photographs of William Ivor Castle (WLU Press, 2025).
Matthew Trudgen, Securing the Continental Skies: The Development of North American Air Defence Co-operation, 1945–1958 (MQUP Press, 2025).
Volodymyr Viatrovych and Lubomyr Luciuk, eds., Translated by Marta Olynyk. Enemy Archives: Soviet Counterinsurgency Operations and the Ukrainian Nationalist Movement – Selections from the Secret Police Archives (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023).
Randall Wakelam, David Varey and Emmanuel Sica, eds., Educating Air Forces: Global Perspectives on Airpower Learning (University of Kentucky, 2020).
Alexander Wilson, Jonathan Fennell and Richard Hammond, The Peoples’ War?: The Second World War in Sociopolitical Perspective (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022).
Matthew S. Wiseman, Frontier Science: Northern Canada, Military Research, and the Cold War, 1945–1970 (University of Toronto Press, 2024).
