The website for Canada's History (the excellent Canadian history magazine formerly known as The Beaver) has loads of book reviews online, including quite a few publications in Canadian military history, such as:
Peter Barton, Vimy Ridge and Arras: The Spring 1917 Offensive in Panoramas;
Dan Bjarnason, Triumph at Kapyong: Canada's Pivotal Battle in Korea;
Jim Blanchard, Winnipeg's Great War: A City Comes of Age;
Timothy Blazer, The Information Front: The Canadian Army and News Management during the Second World War;
Joseph Boydon, Extraordinary Canadians: Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont;
George H. Cassar, Hell in Flanders Fields: Canadians at the Second Battle of Ypres;
Scott Chantler, Two Generals;
Tim Cook, The Madman and the Butcher: The Sensational Wars of Sam Hughes and General Arthur Currie;
Daniel Francis, Seeing Reds: The Red Scare of 1918-1919, Canada's First War on Terror;
Steven High, Occupied St. John's: A Social History of a City at War, 1939-1945;
Mark Milner and Glenn Leonard, New Brunswick and the Navy: Four Hundred Years;
John Nelson Rickard, The Politics of Command: Lieutenant-General A.G.L. McNaughton and the Canadian Army, 1939-1943;
Alan Taylor, The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies;
Mark Zuehlke, On to Victory: The Canadian Liberation of the Netherlands, March 23-May 5, 1945;
and many, many more!
About Me
- Ken
- Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Just a Canadian military historian trying to make his way through the twists and turns of his craft.
Blogroll and Other Links
- * Australian War Memorial
- * Blog Them Out of the Stone Age
- * Canadian Historical Association
- * Centre for Battlefield Archaeology
- * Centre for First World War Studies
- * Christopher Moore's Canadian History
- * Historic battlefields (War in the 20th century)
- * International Society for First World War Studies
- * Investigations of a Dog
- * Kings of War
- * Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies
- * The Canadian Expeditionary Force Study Group
- * The Torch (blog)
Last Ten Military History Books Read
- * Altner, Helmut. Berlin Dance of Death. Havertown, PA, 2002.
- * Black, Jeremy. War: A Short History. London, 2009.
- * Chantler, Scott. Two Generals. Toronto, 2010.
- * Morton, Desmond. A Peculiar Kind of Politics: Canada's Overseas Ministry in the First World War. Toronto, 1982.
- * Armstrong, John Griffith. "Canadian Home Defence, 1914-1917, and the Role of Major-General Willoughby Gwatkin". MA thesis, RMC, 1982.
- * Maroney, Paul J. "Recruiting the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Ontario, 1914-1917." MA thesis, Queen's U, 1991.
- * Hitsman, J. Mackay. The Incredible War of 1812: A Military History. Toronto, 1999.
- * Day, Adam. Witness to War: Reporting on Afghanistan, 2004-2009. Ottawa, 2010.
- * Horn, Colonel Bernd. No Lack of Courage: Operation Medusa, Afghanistan. Toronto, 2010.
- * Cook, Tim. The Madman and the Butcher: The Sensational Wars of Sam Hughes and General Arthur Currie. Toronto, 2010.
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