British Generals in the War of 1812: High Command in the Canadas
Wesley B. Turner

Wesley Turner takes a fresh look at five British Generals — Sir George Prevost, Isaac Brock, Roger Sheaffe, Baron Francis de Rottenburg, and Gordon Drummond — who held the highest civil and military command in the Canadas. He considers their formative experiences in the British Army and on-active service in European and West Indian theatres and evaluates their roles in the context of North American conditions, which were very different from those of Europe. Turner answers questions about the quality of each general's leadership and demonstrates the courage that the generals displayed in combat. Finally, British Generals in the War of 1812 explores why these commanders succeeded or failed and why, except for Brock, they are all but forgotten.

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A Wampum Denied: Procter’s War of 1812
Sandy Antal

A Wampum Denied reassesses the much-maligned career of Henry Procter, commander of the British forces, traces the Canadian/British/Native side of the conflict (amid a literature dominated by the American view), and casts new light on an allied military strategy that very nearly succeeded, but when it failed, failed spectacularly.

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The Fog of War: Censorship of Canada's Media in World War Two
Mark Bourrie

Now, with freshly unsealed World War II press-censor files, many of the undocumented events that occurred in wartime Canada are finally revealed. In Mark Bourrie's illuminating and well-researched account, we learn about the capture of a Nazi spy-turned-double agent, the Japanese-Canadian editor who would one day help develop Canada's medicare system, the curious chiropractor from Saskatchewan who spilled atomic bomb secrets to a roomful of people and the use of censorship to stop balloon bomb attacks from Japan. The Fog of War investigates the realities of media censorship through the experiences of those deputized to act on the public's behalf.

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Boys and Girls in No Man’s Land: English-Canadian Children and the First World War
Susan R. Fisher

Boys and Girls in No Man's Land examines how WWI entered the lives and imaginations of Canadian children. Drawing on educational materials, textbooks, adventure tales, plays, and Sunday-school papers, this study explores the role of children in the nation's war effort. Over time, the representation of war has changed in Canadian children's literature. During the war, the conflict was invariably presented as noble and thrilling, but recent Canadian children's books paint a very different picture. What once was regarded a morally uplifting struggle, rich in lessons of service and sacrifice, is now presented as pointless slaughter. This shift in tone and content reveals profound changes in Canadian attitudes not only towards the First World War but also towards patriotism, duty, and the shaping of the moral citizen.

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Cowboy Cavalry: The Story of the Rocky Mountain Rangers
Gordon E. Tolton

This is the story of the Rocky Mountain Rangers, a volunteer militia charged with ensuring the safety of the open range between the Rocky Mountains and the Cypress Hills. The Rangers were a motley crew, from ex-Mounties and ex-cons to retired, high-ranking military officials and working, ranch-hand cowpokes. Membership qualifications were scant: ability to ride a horse, knowledge of the prairies, and preparedness to die. Their formation came about when Native and Métis unrest escalated into the Northwest Rebellion of 1885, and the settlers in southern Alberta's cattle country were terrified. Three major First Nations bordered their range, and war seemed certain. Tolton's meticulous research reveals unexplored perspectives and little-known details. Dissensions of the day, rife with skirmishes, corruption, jealousies, rumour, innuendo and gross media sensationalizing... are all bound together with what author Gordon Tolton terms "a generous helping of gunpowder."

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