For a long time historians studying the First World War had to rely on the memoirs of soldiers, but over the last several decades, more and more letters have made their way into the archives as family members inherit and donate the written material of their relatives....

The first four parts of an all-new episode of Professor Darryl Dee’s Great Battles in History podcast has been released. In the inaugural episode, Professor Dee examined the Battle of Thermopylae and its legacy, followed by the bloody Battle of Cannae during the...

The second installment in the three-part series of “The Canadians who Captured the First Tiger where No Canadian Force Fought” by Bruce Newsome is now available on the LCMSDS Centre Blog.

To commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Hong Kong, Canadian Military History will be publishing a special issue in fall 2021. We invite submissions that examine the Battle of Hong Kong from multiple perspectives. Canadian and non-Canadian perspectives are...

In the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks, five people were killed and another seventeen were injured from anthrax spores as part of a deliberate attack against members of the US media and Senate. Fears quickly spread that this was another incident of...

This is the first article in a three-part series on the deployment of German Tiger tanks in 1942, by Bruce Oliver Newsome, a lecturer in international relations at the University of San Diego.

Michael LoCicero. A Midnight Massacre: The Night Operation on the Passchendaele Ridge, 2 December 1917: The Forgotten Last Act of the Third Battle of Ypres. Solihull, UK: Helion & Company, 2014. Pp. 517. By William F. Stewart, Independent Researcher This review...

You are invited to submit proposals for the upcoming On Track publication to be released this winter.