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Ontario. This photograph appears in From Victoria to
www.ubcpress.ca Vladivostok, by Benjamin Isitt (see page 3).
Contents
Military History
Veterans with a Vision
Serge Marc Durflinger 2
From Victoria to Vladivostok
Benjamin Isitt 3
Militia Myths
James A. Wood 4
Canada and Ballistic Missile Defence,
1954–2009
James Fergusson 5
Kiss the kids for dad,
Don’t forget to write
Edited by Y.A. Bennett 6
Crisis of Conscience
Amy J. Shaw 6
Clio’s Warriors
Tim Cook 7
Renegades
Michael Petrou 7
An Officer and a Lady
Cynthia Toman 8
Battle Grounds
P. Whitney Lackenbauer 8
Betrayed
Richard O. Mayne 9
The Soldiers’ General
Douglas E. Delaney 9
Commanding Canadians
Edited by Michael Whitby 10
Prisoners of the Home Front
Martin F. Auger 10
Fighting from Home
Serge Durflinger 11
Saints, Sinners, and Soldiers
Jeffrey A. Keshen 11
Canadians Behind Enemy Lines,
1939–1945
Roy MacLaren 12
Fight or Pay
Desmond Morton 12
The Red Man’s on the Warpath
R. Scott Sheffield 13
Hometown Horizons
Robert Rutherdale 13
Frigates and Foremasts
Julian Gwyn 14
A War of Patrols
William Johnston 14
Avoiding Armageddon
Andrew Richter 15
No Place to Run
Tim Cook 15
Death So Noble
Jonathan F. Vance 16
Objects of Concern
Jonathan F. Vance 16
Security Studies
The Politics of Procurement
Aaron Plamondon 17
Canada, the Congo Crisis, and
UN Peacekeeping, 1960–64
Kevin A. Spooner 18
Pearson’s Peacekeepers
Michael K. Carroll 18
The Paradoxes of Peacebuilding
Post–9/11
Edited by Stephen Baranyi 19
Cautious Beginnings
Kurt F. Jensen 19
Alliance and Illusion
Robert Bothwell 20
“Here Is Hell”
Grant Dawson 20
Common Sense on Weapons of
Mass Destruction
Thomas Graham Jr. 21
Another Kind of Justice
Chris Madsen 21
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Veterans with a Vision
Canada’s War Blinded in Peace and War
Serge Marc Durflinger
Serge Marc Durflinger is an
associate professor of history at
the University of Ottawa. He is the
author of Fighting from Home:
The Second World War in Verdun,
Quebec and co-editor of War and
Society in Post-Confederation
Canada.
2010
978-0-7748-1855-1 hc $85.00
978-0-7748-1856-8 pb $29.95
484 pages, 6 x 9”
Printed in ClearType, 54 b&w photos
Studies in Canadian Military
History Series
Published in Association with the
Canadian War Museum and the Sir
Arthur Pearson Association of War
Blinded
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Based on fascinating personal stories, thorough
archival research, and rigorous scholarship,
Veterans with a Vision illuminates the lives of
Canadian veterans from the world wars and their
integration back into society as contributing
members ... Well-written and thoughtfully argued,
this provocative book is essential reading for military
and social historians and those with an interest in the
interaction of citizens and the state.
– Tim Cook, author of Shock Troops: Canadians
Fighting the Great War, 1917-1918
We know something about our war dead but almost
nothing about our war wounded. Veterans with a
Vision provides a vibrant, poignant, and very human
history of Canada’s war-blinded veterans and of the
organization they founded in 1922, the Sir Arthur
Pearson Association of War Blinded. Serge Durflinger
details the veterans’ process of civil re-establishment,
physical and psychological rehabilitation, and social
and personal coping and describes their public
advocacy for government pension entitlements, job
retraining, and other social programs. This book
captures the spirit of perseverance that permeated
the veterans’ community and highlights the
accomplishments of the war blinded as advocates for
all Canadian veterans and for all blind citizens.
Contents
Preface
Introduction
1 Canada’s First War Blinded, 1899–1918
2 The Sir Arthur Pearson Club of War Blinded
Soldiers and Sailors, 1919–29
3 The Years of Struggle, 1930–39
4 Rehabilitating the Blinded Casualties of the
Second World War, 1939–50
5 Older and Wiser: Canada’s War Blinded in the
Aftermath of War, 1945–70
6 Twilight, 1971–2002
Conclusion
Notes; Select Bibliography; Index
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From Victoria to Vladivostok
Canada’s Siberian Expedition, 1917–19
Benjamin Isitt
Benjamin Isitt is a historian
specializing in twentieth-century
Canadian and world history, with
an emphasis on labour, social
movements, and the process of
cultural change.
2010
978-0-7748-1801-8 hc $85.00
January 2011
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320 pages, 6 x 9”
37 b&w photos, 5 maps
Studies in Canadian Military
History Series
Isitt’s work is new, innovative, and important. He
deftly weaves the Canadian working class opposition
to war and the rising leftist sentiment among
workers with the inner life of the Siberian Expedition
itself. That inner life included opposition to the
Siberian venture among a substantial section of the
contingent. No less important, he melds a national
story with an international one.
– Larry Hannant, editor of The Politics of Passion:
Norman Bethune’s Writing and Art
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.
Combining military and labour history with the social
history of BC, Quebec, and Russia, Benjamin Isitt
examines how the Siberian Expedition exacerbated
tensions within Canadian society at a time when a
radicalized working class, many French-Canadians,
and even the soldiers themselves objected to a
military adventure designed to counter the Russian
Revolution. The result is a highly readable and
provocative work that challenges public memory of
the First World War while illuminating tensions – both
in Canada and worldwide – that shaped the course of
twentieth-century history.
Contents
Preface
Introduction: Why Siberia?
Part 1: Canada’s Road to Siberia
1 1917: A Breach in the Allied Front
2 Vladivostok: 1917
3 The Road to Intervention
4 Mobilization
5 Departure Day
Part 2: To Vladivostok and Back
6 Vladivostok: 1919
7 “Up Country” and Evacuation
8 Afterword
Conclusion
Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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Militia Myths
Ideas of the Canadian Citizen Soldier, 1896–1921
James A. Wood
James Wood teaches history
at the University of Victoria and
is the author of We Move Only
Forward: Canada, the United
States, and the First Special
Service Force, 1942-44 and Army
of the West: The Weekly Reports
of German Army Group B from
Normandy to the West Wall.
2010
978-0-7748-1765-3 hc $90.00
January 2011
978-0-7748-1766-0 pb $32.95
384 pages, 6 x 9”
29 b&w photos, 6 tables
Studies in Canadian Military
History Series
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This is a must-have book in Canadian military and
social history, representing both fields at their
very best. Wood sets the record straight on one of
the most discussed but nonetheless little known
concepts in our history: the militia myth. For the first
time, we have a real and compelling understanding of
what was once demonized in our history – the idea of
being a citizen first and a soldier if necessary.
– Roch Legault, co-editor of Loyal Service:
Perspectives on French-Canadian Military Leaders
This cultural history of the amateur military tradition
traces the origins of the citizen soldier ideal to
long before Canadians donned khaki and boarded
troopships for the Western Front. Before the Great
War, Canada’s military culture was in transition as
the country navigated an uncertain relationship
with the United States and fought an imperial
war in South Africa. Militia Myths explores the
ideological transformation that took place between
1896 and 1921, arguing that by the end of the War,
the untrained citizen volunteer had replaced the
long-serving militiaman as the archetypical Canadian
soldier.
Contents
Introduction: Canadian Ideas of the Citizen Soldier1
1 A Military Spirit in Canada, 1896–98
2  An Army for Empire, 1898–1901
3  “Don’t Call Me Tommy,” 1901–4
  “Who Are You Going to Fight?” 1905–8
5  Continental Commitments, 1909–11
6  Involuntary Action, 1911–14
7  War and Citizenship, 1914–17
8  Victory and Vindication, 1918–21
Conclusion: A Citizen’s Duty in “Canada’s Century”
Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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Canada and Ballistic Missile Defence, 1954–2009
Déjà Vu All over Again
James Fergusson
James Fergusson is the director
of the Centre for Defence and
Security Studies and a professor
in the Department of Political
Studies at the University of
Manitoba.
2010
978-0-7748-1750-9 hc $85.00
January 2011
978-0-7748-1751-6 pb $34.95
268 pages, 6 x 9”
18 b&w photos, 3 maps
Studies in canadian Military
History series
This is important scholarship. It is the first history
of Canada and ballistic missile defence, placing the
most recent debates in the context of more than fifty
years of developments and revealing recurring (and
lamentable) patterns of Canadian decision making.
Moreover, it also sheds needed light on Canadian
involvement in NORAD, Canada-US relations more
broadly, and how important defence decisions are
made in Canada.
– Joseph Jockel, author of Canada in NORAD,
1957–2007: A History
Since the mid-1950s, successive Canadian
governments have responded to US ballistic missile
defence initiatives with fear and uncertainty. Officials
have endlessly debated the implications – at home
and abroad – of participation. Drawing on previously
classified government documents and interviews with
senior officials, James Fergusson offers the first full
account of Canada’s unsure response to US initiatives.
He reveals that factors such as weak leadership and
a tendency to place uncertain and ill-defined notions
of international peace and security before national
defence have resulted in indecision. In the end,
policy-makers failed to transform the ballistic missile
defence issue into an opportunity to define Canada’s
strategic interests at home and on the world stage.
Contents
Preface 
Prologue – What’s with Defence?
Act 1  – Anti-Ballistic Missiles: Don’t Worry, Be Happy
(1954–1971)
Act 2 – The Strategic Defence Initiative: Much Ado
About Very Little (1972–1985)
Act 3 – Global Protection Against Limited Strikes:
Too Close for Comfort (1986–1992)
Act 4 – National Missile Defense: Let Sleeping Dogs
Lie (1993–2000)
Act 5 – Ground-Based Mid-Course Defense: Is this the
End? (2001–2005)
Epilogue – Forward to the Past (2005 and Beyond)
Notes; Bibliography; Index
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Kiss the kids for dad,
Don’t forget to write
The Wartime Letters of George
Timmins, 1916–18
Edited by Y.A. Bennett
Between 1916 and 1918, Lance-Corporal
George Timmins, a British-born soldier who
served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force,
wrote faithfully to his wife and children.
Sixty-three letters and four fragments
survived. These letters tell the compelling
story of a man who, while helping his fellow
Canadians make history, used letters
home to remain a presence in the lives
of his wife and children, and who drew
strength from his family to appreciate life’s
simple pleasures. Timmins’s letters offer
a rare glimpse into the experiences and
relationships, the quiet heroism, of ordinary
soldiers on the Western Front.
Y.A. Bennett is an associate professor of
history at Carleton University.
2009, 978-0-7748-1609-0 pb $32.95
224 pages, 6 x 9”
24 b&w photos
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Crisis of Conscience
Conscientious Objection in Canada
during the First World War
Amy J. Shaw
The First World War’s appalling death toll
and the need for a sense of equality of
sacrifice on the home front led to Canada’s
first experience of overseas conscription.
While historians have focused on resistance
to enforced military service in Quebec, this
has obscured the important role of those
who saw military service as incompatible
with their religious or ethical beliefs. Crisis
of Conscience 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 evolving attitudes about the rights and
responsibilities of citizenship during a key
period of Canadian nation building.
Amy J. Shaw is an assistant professor in
the Department of History at the University
of Lethbridge.
2008, 978-0-7748-1594-9 pb $34.95
264 pages, 6 x 9”
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Series
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Clio’s Warriors
Canadian Historians and
the Writing of the World Wars
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 on the battlefield. Only recently have
military historians pushed the discipline
to explore the impact of war on society. In
analyzing where the practice of academic
military history has come from and where it
needs to go, Clio’s Warriors plays a vital role
in the ongoing challenge of writing critical
history.
Tim Cook is a historian with the Canadian
War Museum.
2006, 978-0-7748-1257-3 pb $30.95
352 pages, 6 x 9”
22 b&w photos
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military history
Renegades
Canadians in the Spanish Civil War
Michael Petrou
Shortlisted for the
2009 Ottawa Book
Award, Non-Fiction
Between 1936 and 1939, almost 1,700
Canadians defied their government and
volunteered to fight in the Spanish Civil War.
They left behind punishing lives in Canadian
relief camps, mines, and urban flophouses
to confront fascism in a country few knew
much about. Michael Petrou has drawn
on recently declassified archival material,
interviewed surviving Canadian veterans,
and visited the battlefields of Spain to write
the definitive account of Canadians in the
Spanish Civil War. Renegades is an intimate
and unflinching story of idealism and
courage, duplicity and defeat.
Michael Petrou, a senior writer at
Maclean’s magazine, has covered wars and
conflicts across Africa, the Middle East,
and Central Asia. He holds a doctorate
in modern history from the University of
Oxford.
2008, 978-0-7748-1418-8 pb $25.95
304 pages, 6 x 9”
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An Officer and a Lady
Canadian Military Nursing and the
Second World War
Cynthia Toman
During the Second World War, more than
4,000 civilian nurses enlisted as Nursing
Sisters, a specially created all-female
officers’ rank of the Canadian Armed
Forces. They served in all three armed force
branches and all the major theatres of
war, yet nursing as a form of war work has
long been under-explored. An Officer and a
Lady fills that gap. Cynthia Toman analyzes
how gender, war, and medical technology
intersected to create a legitimate role for
women in the masculine environment of
the military, and explores the incongruous
expectations placed on military nurses as
“officers and ladies.”
Cynthia Toman is an assistant professor
of nursing and is associate director of the
Associated Medical Services Nursing History
Research Unit at the University of Ottawa.
2007, 978-0-7748-1448-5 pb $34.95
272 pages, 6 x 9”
29 b&w photos
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Battle Grounds
The Canadian Military and
Aboriginal Lands
P. Whitney Lackenbauer
Shortlisted for
the 2006 Raymond
Klibansky Prize,
Canadian Federation
for the Humanities
and Social Sciences
Base closures, use of airspace for weapons
testing and low-level flying, environmental
awareness, and Aboriginal land claims have
focused attention in recent years on the use
of Native lands for military training. But is
the military’s interest in Aboriginal lands
new? Battle Grounds analyzes a century
of government-Aboriginal interaction and
negotiation to explore how the Canadian
military came to use Aboriginal lands for
training. It examines what the process
reveals about the larger and evolving
relationship between governments
and Aboriginal communities and how
increasing Aboriginal assertiveness and
activism have affected the issue.
P. Whitney Lackenbauer is an assistant
professor in the Department of History at
St. Jerome’s University.
2006, 978-0-7748-1316-7 pb $30.95
368 pages, 6 x 9”
32 b&w illustrations, 20 maps
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Betrayed
Scandal, Politics, and Canadian
Naval Leadership
Richard O. Mayne
In January 1944, Vice Admiral Percy Walker
Nelles was fired from his position as head
of the Royal Canadian Navy. Betrayed
reveals the true story behind the dismissal:
a divisive power struggle between two
elite groups within the RCN pitted the
navy’s regular officers against a small
group of self-appointed spokesmen for the
voluntary naval reserve. Threats of public
scandal, mass insurrection, and political
intimidation caused one of the worst
breakdowns ever in Canadian civil-military
relations. This fascinating investigation
into the machinations of a divided navy
tackles important questions of military
professionalism, leadership, and identity.
Richard O. Mayne is a historian with
the Department of National Defence’s
Directorate of History and Heritage in
Ottawa.
2006, 978-0-7748-1296-2 pb $30.95
296 pages, 6 x 9”
32 b&w illustrations
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military history
The Soldiers’ General
Bert Hoffmeister at War
Douglas E. Delaney
Winner, 2007
C.P. Stacey Prize,
Canadian Committee
for the History of
the Second World
War
By the end of the Second World War,
Bert Hoffmeister had risen from captain to
major-general and won more awards than
any Canadian officer in the war. This native
Vancouverite earned a reputation as a
fearless commander on the battlefield –
one who led from the front, one well loved
by those he led. 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.
Douglas E. Delaney is an associate
professor of history at the Royal Military
College of Canada and a retired infantry
officer (Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light
Infantry).
2005, 978-0-7748-1149-1 pb $34.95
320 pages, 6 x 9”
21 b&w photos, 11 charts, 15 maps
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Commanding Canadians
The Second World War Diaries
of A.F.C. Layard
Edited by Michael Whitby
Shortlisted for the
2006 Keith Matthews
Award, Canadian
Nautical Research
Society
Commander A.F.C. Layard, RN, wrote almost
daily in his diary, in bold, neat script,
from the time he entered the Royal Navy
as a cadet in 1913 until his retirement in
1947. The pivotal 1943–45 years of this
edited volume offer an extraordinarily full
and honest chronicle, revealing Layard’s
preoccupations, both with the daily details
and with the strain and responsibility of
wartime command at sea. Enhanced by
Michael Whitby’s explanatory essays, the
diary is a highly personal piece of history
that enlarges our understanding of the
Canadian naval experience and of the
Atlantic war as a whole.
Michael Whitby is a senior naval
historian at the Canadian National Defence
Headquarters.
2005, 978-0-7748-1194-1 pb $34.95
416 pages, 6 x 9”
30 b&w photos, 3 maps
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Prisoners of the Home Front
German POWs and “Enemy Aliens”
in Southern Quebec, 1940–46
Martin F. Auger
In the middle of the most destructive
conflict in human history, the Second
World War, almost 40,000 Germans
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. Auger concludes that Canada
abided by the Geneva Convention; its
treatment of German prisoners was
humane. This book sheds light on life
behind barbed wire, filling an important
void in our knowledge of the Canadian
home front during the Second World War.
Martin F. Auger is an analyst at the Library
of Parliament.
2005, 978-0-7748-1224-5 pb $34.95
240 pages, 6 x 9”
8 tables
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Fighting from Home
The Second World War in Verdun,
Quebec
Serge Durflinger
In 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. Shared
experiences and class similarities shaped
responses based first and foremost in a
sense of local identity. Fighting from Home
paints a comprehensive, at times intimate,
portrait of Verdun and Verdunites at war.
Durflinger offers an innovative interpretive
approach to wartime Canadian and Quebec
social and cultural dynamics in this history
of the Canadian home front during the
Second World War.
Serge Durflinger is an associate
professor of history at the University of
Ottawa.
2006, 978-0-7748-1261-0 pb $34.95
296 pages, 6 x 9”
23 b&w photos, 5 tables, 2 maps
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Saints, Sinners, and Soldiers
Canada’s Second World War
Jeffrey A. Keshen
Shortlisted for
the 2006 Raymond
Klibansky Prize,
Canadian Federation
for the Humanities
and Social Sciences
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. From labour conflicts, to the black
market, to prostitution, and beyond, Keshen
acknowledges the underbelly of Canada’s
Second World War, and demonstrates that
the “Good War” was a complex tapestry of
social forces - not all of which were above
reproach.
Jeffrey A. Keshen is a professor and
chair of the Department of History at the
University of Ottawa.
2004, 978-0-7748-0924-5 pb $30.95
416 pages, 6 x 9”
31 b&w photos, 8 charts, 3 tables
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Canadians Behind Enemy Lines,
1939–1945
Roy MacLaren
During the Second World War, almost one
hundred Canadians served the Allied forces
by passing as locals in occupied countries.
At the behest of two British secret services,
these men made language and custom their
costumes. They risked their lives assisting
resistance groups in sabotage and ambush
missions or in smuggling Allied airmen out
of occupied territories. Quiet heroes of
the war, these bold Canadians helped to
make the brutal and unrelenting warfare
of the underground a potent weapon
in the Allied arsenal. This is a study of
unstinting personal courage in the face of
overwhelming odds.
The Honourable Roy MacLaren was a
diplomat, businessman, and Member of
Parliament. He is the author of four other
books on Canadian military and political
subjects.
2004, 978-0-7748-1100-2 pb $30.95
352 pages, 6 x 9”
37 b&w photos, 3 maps
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Fight or Pay
Soldiers’ Families in the Great War
Desmond Morton
The First World War is remembered in
Canada largely for the immense sacrifice in
life and limb of its soldiers. In Fight or Pay,
Desmond Morton turns his eye to the stories
of those who paid in lieu of fighting – the
wives, mothers, and families left behind
when soldiers went to war. 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. It is an incisive and honest look at
the beginnings of a social welfare system
that Canadians have come to think of as
intrinsic to citizenship.
Desmond Morton is the Hiram Mills
Emeritus Professor at McGill University
and is the author of numerous books on
Canadian military, political, and industrial-
relations history.
2004, 978-0-7748-1108-8 HC $39.95
368 pages, 6 x 9”
27 b&w photos, 5 tables
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The Red Man’s on the Warpath
The Image of the “Indian” and the
Second World War
R. Scott Sheffield
During the Second World War, thousands of
First Nations people joined in the national
crusade to defend freedom and democracy.
High rates of Native enlistment and public
demonstrations of patriotism encouraged
Canadians to re-examine the roles and
status of Native people in Canadian society.
The Red Man’s on the Warpath explores how
wartime symbolism and imagery propelled
the “Indian problem” onto the national
agenda and why assimilation remained the
goal of post-war Canadian Indian policy –
even though the war required that it be
rationalized in new ways.
R. Scott Sheffield teaches at the University
of the Fraser Valley in the Department of
History.
2004, 978-0-7748-1095-1 pb $34.95
240 pages, 6 x 9”
9 b&w photos
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Hometown Horizons
Local Responses to Canada’s
Great War
Robert Rutherdale
Robert Rutherdale considers how people
and communities on the Canadian home
front perceived the Great War. Drawing
on newspaper archives and organizational
documents, he examines how farmers
near Lethbridge, Alberta, shopkeepers in
Guelph, Ontario, and civic workers in Trois-
Rivières, Québec took part in local activities
that connected their everyday lives to a
tumultuous period in history. The making
of Canada’s home front, Rutherdale argues,
was experienced fundamentally through
local means.  Hometown Horizons challenges
historians to consider the place of everyday
modes of communication in forming
collective understandings of world events.
Robert Rutherdale is a member of the
Department of History at Algoma University
College.
2004, 978-0-7748-1014-2 pb $34.95
360 pages, 6 x 9”
29 b&w illustrations and photographs
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Frigates and Foremasts
The North American Squadron in
Nova Scotia Waters 1745–1815
Julian Gwyn
Winner of the
2004 John Lyman
Book Award, North
American Society
for Oceanic History
Honourable
Mention, 2004 Keith
Matthews Prize,
Canadian Nautical
Research Society
The first comprehensive study of naval
operations involving North American
squadrons in Nova Scotia waters, 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.
Interweaving historical analysis with vivid
descriptions of pivotal events from the first
siege of Louisbourg in 1745 to the end of the
wars with the United States and France in
1815, Julian Gwyn illuminates the complex
story of competing interests among the
Admiralty, Navy Board, sea officers, and
government officials on both sides of the
Atlantic.
Julian Gwyn is a professor emeritus in
the Department of History at the University
of Ottawa and the author of Excessive
Expectations: Maritime Commerce and
the Economic Development of Nova Scotia,
1740–1870.
2003, 978-0-7748-0911-5 pb $34.95
224 pages, 6 x 9”
18 b&w illustrations, 2 maps
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A War of Patrols
Canadian Army Operations in Korea
William Johnston
In June 1950, North Korea invaded South
Korea. Responding to a United Nations
call, Canada deployed an 8,000-man brigade
to the peninsula to fight as part of an
American-led UN force. 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. This impeccably
researched analytical history also examines
the various units, from the first deployed
“Special Force” to the army’s regular
battalions that replaced them.
William Johnston is a historian with
the Department of National Defence’s
Directorate of History and Heritage in
Ottawa.
2003, 978-0-7748-1008-1 HC $34.95
448 pages, 6 x 9”
43 b&w photos, 17 maps
Studies in Canadian Military History
Series
military history
Avoiding Armageddon
Canadian Military Strategy and
Nuclear Weapons, 1950–63
Andrew Richter
Drawing on previously classified government
records, Richter reveals that Canadian
defence officials independently came to
strategic understandings of the most critical
issues of the nuclear age regarding the use
of force in resolving disputes. Canadian
appreciation of deterrence, arms control,
and strategic stability differed conceptually
from the US models. Similarly, Canadian
thinking on the controversial issues of air
defence and the domestic acquisition of
nuclear weapons was primarily influenced
by decidedly Canadian interests. This
book illustrates Canada’s considerable
latitude for independent defence thinking
while providing key historical information
that helps make sense of the contemporary
Canadian defence debate.
Andrew Richter is an associate professor
in the Department of Political Science at the
University of Windsor.
2002, 978-0-7748-0889-7 pb $32.95
224 pages, 6 x 9”
Studies in Canadian Military History
Series
US paperback rights held by Michigan State
University Press
military history
No Place to Run
The Canadian Corps and Gas
Warfare in the First World War
Tim Cook
Winner of the 2002
C.P. Stacey Award,
Canadian Committee
for the History of
the Second World
War
Historians of the First World War have often
dismissed the important role of poison gas
in the battles of the Western Front. Tim
Cook shows that the serious threat of gas
did not disappear with the introduction of
gas masks. By 1918, gas shells were used
by all armies to deluge the battlefield, and
those not instructed with a sound anti-gas
doctrine left themselves exposed to this
new chemical plague. This book provides a
challenging re-examination of the function
of gas warfare in the First World War,
including its important role in delivering
victory in the campaign of 1918 and its
curious postwar legacy.
Tim Cook is a historian with the Canadian
War Museum.
1999, 978-0-7748-0740-1 pb $35.95
304 pages, 6 x 9”
16 b&w photos
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military History military history

Death So Noble Objects of Concern

Memory, Meaning, and Canadian Prisoners of War
the First World War Through the Twentieth Century
Jonathan F. Vance Jonathan F. Vance

Winner of the 1998

C.P. Stacey Award,
Canadian Historical
Foundation

Winner of the 1998

Dafoe Book Prize,
John Wesley Dafoe
Foundation

Winner of the
1998 Sir John A.
Macdonald Prize,
Canadian Historical
Foundation
Honourable Mention, 2000 François-Xavier
Garneau Medal, Canadian Historical
Foundation
Shortlisted for the 1997 Lionel Gelber Prize,
Munk Centre for International Studies
This book examines Canada’s collective
memory of the First World War through
the 1920s and 1930s. It is a cultural
history, considering art, music, and literature.
Thematically organized into such subjects as
the symbolism of the soldier, the implications
of war memory for Canadian nationalism,
and the idea of a just war, the book draws on
military records, memoirs, war memorials,
newspaper reports, fiction, popular songs,
and films. It takes an unorthodox view of the
Canadian war experience as a cultural and
philosophical force rather than as a political
and military event.
Jonathan F. Vance is a professor and
Canada Research Chair in the Department of
History at the University of Western Ontario.
Fifteen thousand Canadians were captured
during Canada’s twientieth-century wars.
They experienced the bewilderment that
accompanied the moment of capture,
the humiliation of being completely in
the captor’s power, and the sense of
stagnating in a backwater while the rest
of the world moved forward. Jonathan F.
Vance provides the first comprehensive
account of how the Canadian government
and non-governmental organizations have
dealt with the problems of prisoners of war,
examining Canada’s role in the formation of
aspects of international law, the growth and
activities of national and local philanthropic
agencies, and the efforts of ex-prisoners
to secure compensation for the long-term
effects of captivity.
Jonathan F. Vance is a professor and
Canada Research Chair in the Department of
History at the University of Western Ontario.
1994, 978-0-7748-0520-9 pb $29.95
330 pages, 6 x 9”
35 b&w photos

1997, 978-0-7748-0600-8 pb $32.95

336 pages, 6 x 9”
82 b&w illustrations

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The Politics of Procurement
Military Acquisition in Canada and the Sea King Helicopter
Aaron Plamondon
Aaron Plamondon teaches
Canadian and Military History
at the University of Calgary and
Mount Royal University. He is also
a National Fellow at the Centre for
Military and Strategic Studies at
the University of Calgary.
2009
978-0-7748-1714-1 hc $85.00
July 2010
978-0-7748-1715-8 pb $32.95
288 pages, 6 x 9”
12 b&w photos
The best book yet on what’s wrong with Canada’s
military procurement system using the Maritime
Helicopter Project as a case study.
– David Bercuson
In 1993, Canada’s Liberal Party cancelled an order to
replace the navy’s Sea King helicopter. It claimed that
the Tory plan was too expensive, but the cancellation
itself actually cost taxpayers hundreds of millions
of dollars. Aaron Plamondon connects this incident
to the larger story of the evolution of the defence
procurement process in Canada. He reveals that
partisan politics, rather than a desire to increase
the military’s capabilities, have driven the military
procurement process. This saga of the government
playing havoc with weapons acquisition offers an
explanation for, and clues for resolving, the under-
equipped state of Canada’s military.
Contents
Preface
Introduction: The Canadian Defence Procurement
System
1 Procurement in Canada: A Brief History
2 Early Helicopter Operations: The Exploration
of a New Capability
3 The Procurement of the Sea King: Slow but Solid
4 The Sea King in Canada: Time Is the Enemy
of Us All
5 The New Shipborne Aircraft Project:
A Commitment to Replace the Fleet
6 The Vulnerability of the NSA: Political Parrying
7 The 1993 NSA Cancellation: Money for Nothing
8 The 1994 White Paper and the New Statement
of Requirement: The Ghost of Procurements Past
9 The Maritime Helicopter Project: Procuring on
Eggshells
10 The Cyclone Decision: Caveat Emptor
Conclusion
Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
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security studies
Canada, the Congo Crisis, and
UN Peacekeeping, 1960– 64
Kevin A. Spooner
In 1960 the Republic of Congo teetered near
collapse as its first government struggled
to cope with civil unrest and mutinous
armed forces. When the UN established a
peacekeeping operation to deal with the
crisis, the Canadian government faced a
difficult decision. Should it support the
intervention? By offering one of the first
detailed accounts of Canadian involvement
in a UN peacekeeping mission, Kevin
Spooner reveals that Canada’s involvement
was not a certainty. The Diefenbaker
government had immediate and ongoing
reservations about the mission, reservations
that challenged cherished notions of
Canada’s commitment to the UN and its
status as a peacekeeper.
Kevin Spooner is an assistant professor
of North American studies at Wilfrid Laurier
University.
2009, 978-0-7748-1637-3 pb $32.95
296 pages, 6 x 9”
3 figures
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Pearson’s Peacekeepers
Canada and the United Nations
Emergency Force, 1956–67
Michael K. Carroll
In 1957, Lester Pearson won the Nobel
Peace Prize for creating the United Nations
Emergency Force during the Suez crisis.
The award launched Canada’s enthusiasm
and reputation for peacekeeping. Pearson’s
Peacekeepers explores the reality behind
the rhetoric by offering a detailed account
of the UNEF’s decade-long effort to keep
peace along the Egyptian-Israeli border.
While the operation was a tremendous
achievement, the UNEF also encountered
formidable challenges and problems. This
nuanced account of Canada’s participation
in the UNEF challenges perceived notions
of Canadian identity and history and will
help Canadians to accurately evaluate
international peacekeeping efforts today.
Michael K. Carroll is a SDF Postdoctoral
Fellow at the Centre for Military and
Strategic Studies at the University of
Calgary.
2009, 978-0-7748-1582-6 pb $29.95
254 pages, 6 x 9”
21 b&w photos, 1 map
security studies
The Paradoxes of Peacebuilding
Post–9/11
Edited by Stephen Baranyi
Is sustainable peace an illusion in a world
where foreign military interventions are
replacing peace negotiations as starting
points for postwar reconstruction? What
would it take to achieve durable peace? This
book presents six provocative case studies
authored by respected peacebuilding
practitioners in their own societies. The
studies address two cases of relative
success (Guatemala and Mozambique), three
cases of renewed but deeply fraught efforts
(Afghanistan, Haiti, and the Palestinian
Territories), and the case of Sri Lanka, where
peacebuilding was aborted but where the
outlines of a new peace process can be
discerned. 
Stephen Baranyi is Principal Researcher
on Conflict Prevention at the North-South
Institute in Ottawa.
Contributors: Wenche Hauge, Carolina
Hunguana, Hérard Jadotte, Gabriel
Aguilera Peralta, Yves-François Pierre,
Kristiana Powell, Pamela Scholey, Khalil
Shikaki, Eduardo J. Sitoe, Arne Strand, Jane
Murphy Thomas, Beate Thoresen, Jayadeva
Uyangoda, and Omar Zakhilwal.
2008, 978-0-7748-1452-2 pb $34.95
392 pages, 6 x 9”
US paperback rights held by Stanford
University Press
security studies
Cautious Beginnings
Canadian Foreign Intelligence,
1939–51
Kurt F. Jensen
Kurt F. Jensen argues that Canada was
a more active intelligence partner in
the Second World War alliance than
has previously been suggested. He
describes Canada’s contributions to Allied
intelligence before the war began, as well
as the distinctly Canadian activities that
started from that point. He reveals how
the government created an intelligence
organization during the war to aid Allied
resources. This is a convincing portrait
of a nation with an active role in Second
World War intelligence gathering, one that
continues to influence the architecture of its
current capabilities.
Kurt F. Jensen is a former Canadian
diplomat whose assignments included work
with foreign intelligence. He also teaches
political science at Carleton University.
2008, 978-0-7748-1483-6 pb $34.95
252 pages, 6 x 9”
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security studies
Alliance and Illusion
Canada and the World, 1945–1984
Robert Bothwell
Honourable Mention,
2008 Sir John A.
Macdonald Prize,
Canadian Historical
Association
Alliance and Illusion is the definitive
assessment of the domestic and
international aspects of Canadian foreign
policy in the modern era. Robert Bothwell
provides nuanced studies of Canada’s
leaders, and discusses international
currents that drove Canadian external
affairs, from American influence over
Vietnam and the draft dodgers, to the
French case of de Gaulle’s eruption into
Quebec in 1967. This definitive recounting
and assessment of Canadian foreign policy
in the modern era fills a crucial gap in
Canadian history and provides invaluable
context for understanding Canada’s
present-day foreign policy dilemmas.
Robert Bothwell holds the May Gluskin
Chair in Canadian History at the University
of Toronto, where he is Director of the
international relations program at Trinity
College. He is author of The New Penguin
History of Canada , as well as Canada and
the United States , Canada and Quebec , and
The Big Chill.
2007, 978-0-7748-1369-3 pb $34.95
480 pages, 6 x 9”
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security studies
“Here Is Hell”
Canada’s Engagement in Somalia
Grant Dawson
Grant Dawson’s analysis of political,
diplomatic, and military decision making
avoids a narrow focus on the shocking
offences of a few Canadian soldiers, deftly
investigating the broader context of the
deployment in Somalia. He shows how media
pressure, government optimism about the
United Nations, and the Canadian traditions
of multilateralism and peacekeeping all
helped to determine the level, length,
and tenor of the country’s operations. His
findings will undoubtedly play a seminal role
in informing scholarly debate about this
important period in Canadian diplomacy and
military engagement.
Grant Dawson is a postdoctoral fellow at
the Norman Paterson School of International
Affairs, Carleton University. He teaches
political science at Carleton and history at
the University of Ottawa.
2006, 978-0-7748-1298-6 pb $30.95
240 pages, 6 x 9”
25 b&w photos
Security studies
Common Sense on Weapons of
Mass Destruction
Thomas Graham Jr.
In our post-9/11 world of shoe bombers and
cyberterrorism, a crude nuclear device
no larger than a baseball could devastate
a major city. As we live in fear of attacks
of unknown proportion, why do people
remain confused and complacent in the
face of potential disaster? Ambassador
Thomas Graham Jr. believes that a tide of
misinformation has led to the public’s lack
of understanding of the vital issues. Here, in
a straightforward and comprehensible style,
Graham concisely provides the background
necessary to understand the news and
opinions surrounding WMDs.
Thomas Graham Jr. served as general
counsel and acting director of the U.S. Arms
Control and Disarmament Agency. His work
culminated in the agreement to indefinitely
extend the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Graham is special counsel at Morgan, Lewis
& Bockius LLP in Washington, DC, and he
teaches classes in international law and
arms control.
2004, 978-0-7748-1147-7 PB $20.95
200 pages, 6 x 9”
Canadian rights only
Security studies
Another Kind of Justice
Canadian Military Law from
Confederation to Somalia
Chris Madsen
Another Kind of Justice is the first historical
survey of Canadian military law, providing
insights into military justice in Canada,
the purpose of military law, and the
level of legal professionalism within the
Canadian military. After delving into the
British roots of Canadian military law, Chris
Madsen brings his discussion up to date
with analysis of recent sexual discrimination
cases and the Somalia inquiry. He explains
how the law has served a strictly functional
purpose in maintaining discipline, and
demonstrates how it claims its legitimacy
and distinct status in relation to civil law.
Chris Madsen is associate professor of
Warfare Studies at the Canadian Forces
College.
1999, 978-0-7748-0719-7 pb $32.95
248 pages, 6 x 9”
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