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 and New 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).
Tim Cook, Adrian Shubert, and Marcel Martel Wars of Conviction: A History of Canadian Transnational Fighters (MQUP, 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).
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).
Roman Johann Jarymowycz, The History of the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada: 3 Volumes, 1759-2022 (MQUP, 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, 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)
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).
Gianluca Fantoni, Soldiers, Angels, and Avengers: A History of the Jewish Brigade (MQUP, 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).
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).
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).
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).
Richard Gimblett and Karl Gagnon, Guardians of the North: Canadian Warships and Maritime Aircraft, 1910–2025 (Dundurn, 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).
