Book Reviews
Books Available for Review
Military History/ War and Society (Canada)
Yves Angler, Stand on Guard for Whom? A Peoples History of the Canadian Military (Montreal: Black Rose Books, 2021).
Nahlah Ayed, The War We Won Apart: The Untold Story of Two Elite Agents Who Became One of the Most Decorated Couples of WWII (Toronto: Penguin, 2024).
David Beasley, Operations of the Army Under General Wolfe (Simcoe: Davus Publishing, 2023).
David A. Borys, Punching Above Our Weight: The Canadian Military at War Since 1867 (Dundurn, 2024).
Alan Bowker, A Church at War: MacKay Presbyterian Church, New Edinburgh, and the First World War (University of Ottawa Press, 2024).
Andrew Burtch and Tim Cook, eds., Canada and the Korean War: Histories and Legacies of a Cold War Conflict (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2024).
Kenneth B. Cothliff, Four Who Dared: Inspiring Stories of Canadian Airmen in the Second World War (Victoria: Heritage House, 2019).
Tim Cook, The Good Allies: How Canada and the United States Fought Together to Defeat Fascism during the Second World War (Penguin, 2024).
Louise Dechêne, translated by Peter Feldstein, People, State, and War under the French Regime in Canada (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021).
Greg Donaghy and David Webster, eds., A Samaritan State Revisited: Historical Perspectives on Canadian Foreign Aid (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2019).
Michael A. Dorosh, Calgary's Infantry Regiment (Goose Lane, 2024).
Barry Gough, The Curious Passage of Richard Blanshard: First Governor of Vancouver Island (Harbour Publishing, 2023).
J. L. Granatstein, Canada's Army: Waging War and Keeping the Peace, 3rd ed. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021).
Ken McGoogan, Searching for Franklin New Light on History’s Worst Arctic Disaster (Harbour Publishing, 2023).
Gregory M.W. Kennedy, Lost in the Crowd: Acadian Soldiers of Canada's First World War (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2024).
Pascal Levesque, Frontline Justice: The Evolution and Reform of Summary Trials in the Canadian Armed Forces (MQUP Press, 2020).
Paul McNicholls, Canadians on the Veldt: Canada and the Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902 (Helion, 2024).
Matthew Trudgen, Securing the Continental Skies: The Development of North American Air Defence Co-operation, 1945–1958 (MQUP Press, 2025).
Linda Nissen Samuels, The Man Under the Radar: A Biography of Jack Nissenthall (London: Chiselbury Publishing, 2022).
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).
Military History/ War and Society (U.S./International)
Elizabeth Atwood, The Liberation of Marguerite Harrison: America’s First Female Foreign Intelligence Agent (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2020).
Brenda M. Boyle, American War Stories (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2020).
Jeffrey R. Cares and Anthony Cowden, Fighting the Fleet: Operational Art and Modern Fleet Combat (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2022).
Mark Celinscak, Kingdom of Night: Witnesses to the Holocaust (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022).
Gwen D’Arcangelis, Bio-Imperialism: Disease, Terror and the Construction of National Fragility (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2020).
Emmanuel Destenay, Shadows from the Trenches. Veterans of the Great War and the Irish Revolution (1918-1923) (Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2021).
Renée Dickason, Delphine Letort, Michel Prum and Stéphanie A.H. Bélanger, eds., War and Remembrance: Recollecting and Representing War (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022).
Stan Fisher, Sustaining the Carrier War: The Deployment of U.S. Naval Air Power to the Pacific (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2023).
Matthieu Grandpierron, Nostalgic Virility as a Cause of War: How Leaders of Great Powers Cope with Status Decline (McGill-Queen's University, 2024).
Timothy Heck and Brett A. Friedman, On Contested Shores: The Evolving Role of Amphibious Operations in the History of Warfare (Quantico: Marine Corps University Press, 2020).
Nathaniel Jarrett, The Lion at Dawn: Forging British Strategy in the Age of the French Revolution, 1783–1797 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2022).
Herbert Lin, Cyber Threats and Nuclear Weapons (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021).
Bruce Oliver Newsome, Sir Basil Liddell Hart: Life, Thought, Legacy (Perseublishing, 2024).
Michal Onderco, Networked Nonproliferation: Making the NPT Permanent (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021).
Vincent P. O’Hara and Leonard R. Heinz, Innovating Victory: Naval Technology in Three Wars (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2022).
Françoise Passera and Jean Quellien, Les normands dans la guerre: Le temps des épreuves 1939-1945 (Tallandier, 2021).
Jacques R. Pauwels, Myths of Modern History: From the French Revolution to the 20th century world wars and the Cold War (Toronto: James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers, 2022).
Norman Polmar and John O’Connell, Strike from the Sea: The Development and Deployment of Strategic Cruise Missiles since 1934 (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2020).
Rodney Ross, Harrisburg in World War II (Pennsylvania: The History Press, 2021).
Eric Rust, U-Boat Commander Oskar Kusch: Anatomy of a Nazi-Era Betrayal and Judicial Murder (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2020).
Philip C. Shackelford, Rise of the Mavericks: The U.S. Air Force Security Service and the Cold War (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2023).
Thomas Sheppard, Commanding Petty Despots: The American Navy in the New Republic (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2022).
Ernest Snowden and Robert F. Wood, Maritime Unmanned: From Global Hawk to Triton (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2022).
Gen. Larry O. Spencer, USAF (Ret.), Dark Horse: General Larry O. Spencer and His Journey from the Horseshoe to the Pentagon (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2021).
Kari Weil, Precarious Partners: Horses and Their Humans in Nineteenth-Century France (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020).
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 (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023).
Chris Yogerst, Hollywood Hates Hitler! Jew-Baiting, Anti-Nazism, and the Senate Investigation into Warmongering in Motion Pictures (Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2020).
Under Review
Alan Barnes, Watching the Bear: Canadian Intelligence Assessments of the Soviet Threat to North America, 1946–1964 (UBC Press, 2025).
Matthew Barrett, Scandalous Conduct: Canadian Officer Courts Martial, 1914-45 (UBC Press, 2022).
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).
Rick Blom, Hunger: How Food Shaped the Course of the First World War (Waterloo: 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 (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2022).
Mark Connelly, Postcards from the Western Front: Pilgrims, Veterans, and Tourists after the Great War (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022).
Jeremy A. Crang, Sisters in Arms: Women in the British Armed Forces During the Second World War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020).
John M. Curatola, Autumn of Our Discontent: Fall 1949 and the Crises in American National Security (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2022).
M. Girard Dorsey, Holding Their Breath: How the Allies Confronted the Threat of Chemical Warfare in World War II (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2023).
Charlotte Duval-Lantoine, The Ones We Let Down: Toxic Leadership Culture and Gender Integration in the Canadian Forces (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022).
Peter Farrugia and Evan Habkirk, eds., Portraits of Battle: Courage, Grief and Strength in Canada’s Great War (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2021).
Ian Germani, Dying for France: Experiencing and Representing the Soldier’s Death, 1500–2000 (Montreal and Kingston, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023).
Arthur W. Gullachsen, An Army of Never-Ending Strength: Reinforcing the Canadians in Northwest Europe, 1944–45 (Vancouver: 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 (Havertown: 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 (Havertown: Casemate Ipm, 2022).
Tobias Hof, Galeazzo Ciano: The Fascist Pretender (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021).
John M Jennings and Chuck Steele, eds., The Worst Military Leaders in History (London: Reaktion Books Ltd, 2022).
S. P. Mackenzie, Bomber Boys on Screen: RAF Bomber Command in Film and Television Drama (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019).
David S. Nasca, The Emergence of American Amphibious Warfare, 1898–1945 (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2020).
L. Iris Newbold and K. Bruce Newbold, eds., “Without fear and with a manly heart” The Great War Letters and Diaries of Private James Herbert Gibson (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2019).
John O’Brian, The Bomb in the Wilderness: Photography and the Nuclear Era in Canada (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2020).
John Andreas Olsen, Airpower Pioneers: From Billy Mitchell to Dave Deptula (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2023).
Joy Porter, Trauma, Primitivism and the First World War: The Making of Frank Prewett (New York: Bloomsbury, 2021).
David Roberts, Boosters and Barkers Financing Canada’s Involvement in the First World War (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2023).
Andrew Sangster, The Futile Pursuit of Power: Why Mussolini Executed His Son-in-Law (Dunbeath: Whittles Publishing, 2023).
Alex Souchen and Matthew S. Wiseman, eds., Silent Partners: The Origins and Influence of Canada’s Military-Industrial Complex (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2023).
Randall Wakelam, David Varey and Emmanuel Sica, eds., Educating Air Forces: Global Perspectives on Airpower Learning (Lexington: University of Kentucky, 2020).
Randall Wakelam, William March and Peter Rayls, eds., On the Wings of War and Peace: The RCAF during the Early Cold War (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023).
Alexander Wilson, Jonathan Fennell and Richard Hammond, The Peoples’ War?: The Second World War in Sociopolitical Perspective (Montreal and Kingston: 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).
