The Italian Campaign during the Second World War remains a subject of controversy—whether it was “Normandy’s Long Right Flank” or a costly stalemate continues to be debated by historians to modern day. Terry Copp, director emeritus of the Laurier Centre for...

by Eric Brown This is the first article in a three-part series on the life of Second World War veteran Peter Biddlecombe. At the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939, men from all corners of Canada rushed to join the...

Jewish people are traditionally depicted as victims in the Second World War literature. This should come as no surprise, as six million Jews were killed at the hands of the Nazis during the Holocaust. Ellin Bessner, in her new book Double Threat, insists that at...

Sometimes we find Canadians in the most unlikely of places. During the Second World War, within the crews of airmen responsible for breaching the Ruhr dams of Nazi Germany, there were thirty Canadians. In 1943, these men, along with about a hundred others, took to...

Meghan Fitzpatrick. Invisible Scars: Mental Trauma and the Korean War. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2017. Pp. 196. By Russell W. Glenn, G2, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command This review appears in Canadian Military History Vol. 27 No. 2...

By Eric Story In the immediate aftermath of the Great War, Canadians began the process of coming to terms with the death and destruction the past conflict had wreaked on the young Dominion. According to historian Jonathan Vance, the public constructed a memory of the...

As the Second World War fades from living memory, D-Day, the Allied operation whose success led to the liberation of France and the rest of Western Europe from Axis forces, continues to serve as a microcosm for the preservation of democratic values in the world...

Daniel Byers. Zombie Army: The Canadian Army and Conscription in the Second World War. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2016. Pp. xviii + 324. By Brian Bertosa, Independent Researcher This review appears in Canadian Military History Vol. 27 No. 2...