Labour Goes to War
The CIO and the Construction of a New Social Order, 1939-45
By Wendy Cuthbertson

A fascinating look at the cultural and economic forces behind the explosive growth of the CIO in Canada during the Second World War.

2012, 241 pages, 6 x 9"

Give Me Shelter
The Failure of Canada's Cold War Civil Defence
By Andrew Burtch

A revealing examination of Canada's efforts to prepare its citizens to face nuclear war, from 1945-63.

2012, 300 pages, 6 x 9"

Cold War Fighters
Canadian Aircraft Procurement, 1945-54
By Randall Wakelam

An illuminating account of the complexities of aircraft procurement in the early years of the Cold War before the ill-fated Arrow project.

2011, 208 pages, 6 x 9"

Canada's Road to the Pacific War
Intelligence, Strategy, and the Far East Crisis
By Timothy Wilford

This intriguing account of Canadian intelligence gathering and strategic planning shatters the assumption that the US and the Allies were totally unprepared for war with Japan.

2011, 312 pages, 6 x 9"

Corps Commanders
Five British and Canadian Generals at War, 1939-45
By Douglas E. Delaney

An eloquent historical analysis that provides the most cogent picture to date of command and leadership at the corps level.

2011, 408 pages, 6 x 9"

Defence and Discovery
Canada's Military Space Program, 1945-74
By Andrew Godefroy

A trenchant exploration of how security and counter-terrorism practices are not only eroding civil liberties, but reshaping the very nature of our political freedom.

2011, 256 pages, 6 x 9"

The Information Front
The Canadian Army and News Management during the Second World War
By Timothy Balzer

An illuminating study of the Canadian military's use of public relations to manage news during the Second World War.

2011, 272 pages, 6 x 9"

From Victoria to Vladivostok
Canada’s Siberian Expedition, 1917-19
By Benjamin Isitt

This ground-breaking book brings to a life a forgotten chapter in the history of Canada and Russia – the journey of 4,200 Canadian soldiers from Victoria to Vladivostok in 1918 to help defeat Bolshevism.

2010, 352 pages, 6 x 9"

Canada and Ballistic Missile Defence, 1954-2009
Déjà Vu All Over Again
By James Fergusson

This insightful book offers the first full account, based on newly declassified information, of Canada’s uncertain response to US ballistic missile defence initiatives and reveals the implications of this indecision.

2010, 352 pages, 6 x 9"

Militia Myths
Ideas of the Canadian Citizen Soldier, 1896-1921
By James Wood

This compelling cultural history explores the citizen soldier as an ideal and symbol, tracing its evolution in Canadian society from the late nineteenth century to the end of the First World War.

2010, 368 pages, 6 x 9"

Veterans with a Vision
Canada’s War Blinded in Peace and War
By Serge Durflinger

A vibrant, poignant, and very human history of war-blinded veterans and of the advocacy organization they founded, the Sir Arthur Pearson Association of War Blinded.

2010, 484 pages, 6 x 9"

Crisis of Conscience
Conscientious Objection in Canada during the First World War
By Amy J. Shaw

This is the first and only book about the Canadian pacifists who refused to fight in the Great War. The experience of these conscientious objectors offers insight into the attitudes about the rights and responsibilities of citizenship that were revolving during a key period of Canadian nation building.

2008, 264 pages, 6 x 9"

An Officer and a Lady
Canadian Military Nursing and the Second World War
By Cynthia Toman

An exploration of the incongruous expectations placed on military nurses as “officers and ladies." This book analyzes how gender, war, and medical technology intersected to create a legitimate role for women in the masculine environment of the military.

2007, 272 pages, 6 x 9"

Battle Grounds
The Canadian Military and Aboriginal Lands
By P. Whitney Lackenbauer

This analysis of a century of government-Aboriginal interaction and negotiation explores how the Canadian military came to use Aboriginal lands for training and reveals what this process says about the larger and evolving relationship between governments and native communities.

2006, 368 pages, 6 x 9"

Betrayed
Scandal, Politics, and Canadian Naval Leadership
By Richard O. Mayne

This is the story of how threats of public scandal, mass insurrection, and political intimidation caused one of the worst breakdowns in Canadian civil-military relations, leading to the dismissal of the head of the RCN in January, 1944. This fascinating investigation into the machinations of a divided navy tackles important questions of military professionalism, leadership, and identity.

2006, 296 pages, 6 x 9”

Fighting from Home
The Second World War in Verdun, Quebec
By Serge Durflinger

In WWII Verdun, English and French speakers lived side by side. Through their home-front activities as much as through enlistment, they proved themselves partners in the prosecution of Canada’s war. Fighting from Home paints a comprehensive, at times intimate, portrait of Verdun and Verdunites at war.

2006, 296 pages, 6 x 9"

Clio's Warriors
Canadian Historians and the Writing of the World Wars
By Tim Cook

Clio’s Warriors examines how the Canadian world war experience has been constructed and reconstructed over time. Tim Cook elucidates the role of historians in codifying the sacrifice and struggle of a generation as he discusses historical memory and writing, the creation of archives, and the war of reputations that followed each of the world wars.

2006, 352 pages, 6 x 9"

Prisoners of the Home Front
German POWs and "Enemy Aliens" in Southern Quebec, 1940-46
By Martin F. Auger

In the middle of the most destructive conflict in human history, almost 40,000 German civilians and prisoners of war were detained in internment and work camps across Canada. Prisoners of the Home Front details the organization and day-to-day affairs of these internment camps and reveals the experience of their inmates.

2005, 240 pages, 6 x 9"

Commanding Canadians
The Second World War Diaries of A.F.C. Layard
By Michael Whitby

A highly personal piece of history that greatly enhances our understanding of the Canadian naval experience and the Atlantic war as a whole.

2005, 383 pages, 6 x 9"

The Soldiers' General
Bert Hoffmeister at War
By Douglas E. Delaney

The Soldiers' General explains, in eloquent and accessible prose, how Hoffmeister conducted his business as a military commander. With an astute analytical eye, Delaney carefully dissects Hoffmeister’s numerous battles to reveal how he managed and how he led, how he directed and how he inspired.

2005, 320 pages, 6 x 9"

Fight or Pay
Soldiers' Families in the Great War
By Desmond Morton

A pan-Canadian story, Fight or Pay brings to light the lives of thousands of valiant women whose sacrifices have been overlooked in previous histories of the Great War. It is also an incisive and honest look at the beginnings of a social welfare system that Canadians have come to think of as intrinsic to citizenship.

2004, 368 pages, 6 x 9"

Saints, Sinners, and Soldiers
Canada's Second World War
By Jeffrey A. Keshen

The first-ever synthesis of both the patriotic and the problematic in wartime Canada, Saints, Sinners, and Soldiers shows how moral and social changes, and the fears they generated, precipitated numerous, and often contradictory, legacies in law and society.

2004, 416 pages, 6 x 9"

Frigates and Foremasts
The North American Squadron in Nova Scotia Waters 1745-1815
By Julian Gwyn

Frigates and Foremasts offers a masterful analysis of the motives behind the deployment of Royal Navy vessels between 1745 and 1815, and the navy’s role on the Western Atlantic.

2003, 224 pages, 6 x 9"

A War of Patrols
Canadian Army Operations in Korea
By William Johnston

This comprehensive account of the Canadian campaign in Korea provides the first detailed study of the training, leadership, operations, and tactics of the brigade under each of its three wartime commanders as well as its relationship with American and Commonwealth allies.

2003, 448 pages, 6 x 9"

Avoiding Armageddon
Canadian Military Strategy and Nuclear Weapons, 1950-63
By Andrew Richter

Avoiding Armageddon is a work with far-reaching implications. It illustrates Canada’s considerable latitude for independent defence thinking while providing key historical information that helps make sense of the contemporary Canadian defence debate.

2002, 224 pages, 6 x 9"

The Halifax Explosion and the Royal Canadian Navy
Inquiry and Intrigue
By John Griffith Armstrong

The Halifax Explosion and the Royal Canadian Navy catches the pulse of disaster response in official Ottawa after the explosion and provides a compelling analysis of the legal manoeuvres, rhetoric, blunders, public controversy, and crisis management that ensued.

2002, 256 pages, 6 x 9”