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Adopt-a-Book Program 2025

The 2024 Adopt-a-Book is now SOLD OUT – Thank you for your support

What is this program?

Each year, on April 1st, the Military History Research Centre of the Canadian War Museum provides the Friends charity with a list of titles they wish to acquire for enhancing the Centre’s research capability but are beyond its budget allocation resources.

Why is this program important?

Since the program’s inception over 1,150 titles with a value exceeding $53,500 have been sponsored on behalf of the Military History Research Centre. This generosity has enhanced the Centre’s international reputation, enabling Canadian and global researchers – through the Inter-library Loan Service – to pursue their studies in military history; and by extension add to the public understanding of wars and their impact on societies.

Why should you support this program?

  • Knowing that you are helping to enhance the capabilities of the Military History Research Centre and its international reputation for excellence;
  • Knowing that you have contributed positive and practical support through the Friends charity for the on-going work of the Canadian War Museum as a national treasure.
  • Knowing that each adopted title has your name inserted on the inside cover, hence a permanent record of your generosity; and
  • Knowing that, in addition to your name, you have the ability to recognize another individual or group – living or departed – in tribute, or in memoriam;

How can I support?

Adopt-a-book or books and honour a person you admire.  Here is how.  Go to the Sponsor a Book page and follow the steps. Enter the required information, and in the ‘message box’ insert ‘Adopt-a-Book’ together with the listed number(s) and title(s) you wish to sponsor. If you wish, there is also a further box in which you may enter an ‘in memoriam’ or ‘dedication’. 

Adopt-a-Book Campaign 2025-2026

The books adopted during this campaign will help to ensure that the Military History Research Centre’s library continues to be the best collection of Canadian military history titles in the world. These books are the newest literature in the field, as well as books that help to fill in gaps in the library’s subject matter to ensure a comprehensive look at the subject. This year our offering is of 78 books of which 60 are in English and 18 in French. These books deal with a very large array of topics: from geopolitics and strategy to military tactics; personal experiences, including women’s perspective in war; general and military history through the ages; economic weapons, wargaming and photography.

The titles the MHRC library wishes to acquire are listed below. You may of course leave the selection of a title or titles to the campaign coordinator. In the event that a title has already been adopted, the coordinator will assign an alternate title of equal value. The library will then acquire the book(s) and inscribe the name of the sponsor and the “In Memorium” or “Dedication” on a bookplate in each volume.

Order Number-Numéro de commandeTitle-TitreAuthor-AuteurNo. of copies-Nombre de copiesAdopt-a-Book Price
1Somewhere in Between: Three Weeks in Srebrenica and Other Stories of the War in YugoslaviaT.N.M. Mykytiuk1 $20.00
2Praxis Tacticum: The Art, Science and Practice of Military TacticsCol. Charles S Oliviero1$25.00
3Tracks and Trenches: The 12th York Rangers in the First World WarJohn C. Thompson1$20.00
4Métis soldiers of Saskatchewan: 1914-1953Cathy Littlejohn1$25.00
5One Lucky Devil: The First World War Memoirs of Sampson J. GoodfellowSampson J. Goodfellow1$20.00
6Pulse of International WarOscar Drumheller Seawell1$29.00
7My Battle of the AtlanticDonald Bowman1$17.00
8Mémoires de guerre Éd. IntégraleCharles de Gaulle1$65.00
9The Killing Season :The Autumn of 1914, Ypres, and the Afternoon That Cost Germany a WarRobert Cowley1$54.00
10Japanese Submarines in World War Two: Hirohito’s Silent Hunters in ActionTerry Treadwell1$70.00
11Launching Liberty-The Epic Race to Build Ships That Took Amaerica To WarDoug Most1$40.00
12Ring of fireAlexandra Churchill1$47.00
13Victory ’45: The End of the War in Six SurrendersJames Hollandm, Al Murray1$44.00
14The Devil Reached Toward the Sky : An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic BombGarrett m Graff1$45.00
15L’Armée ukrainienne : une histoire immédiate, 1991-2025Adrien Fontanellaz1$47.00
16Le D-Day de Churchill : les coulisses du DébarquementRichard Dannatt | Allen Packwood1$20.00
17Vu de Russie : chroniques de guerre dans le camp ennemiThierry Marignac1$35.00
18Le Plus grand des maux : sociologie des guerres civilesGilles Dorronsoro1$48.00
19Les Poches de l’Atlantique et de Dunkerque : 1944-1945Stéphane Weiss1$41.00
20Les Armes et la chair : dire la guerre en trois objetsStéphane Audoin-Rouzeau1$40.00
21World According to Military TargetingCollectif1$79.00
22Codename NemoCharles Lachman1$30.00
23Couples dans la Grande Guerre : le tragique et l’ordinaire du lien conjugalClémentine Vidal-Naquet1$28.00
24Scorched Earth: A Global History of World War IIPaul Thomas Chamberlin1$46.00
25Sky Warriors: British Airborne Forces in the Second World WarSaul David1$27.00
26The New Nuclear AgeAnkit Panda1$41.00
27Hyperguerre : comment l’IA révolutionne la guerreJean-Michel Valantin1$35.00
28L’OTAN : une alliance au service de la guerreMedea Benjamin | David Swanson1$25.00
29The World of the Cold War: 1945-1991Vladislav Zubok1$49.00
30British Widows of the First World War: the Forgotten LegionAndrea Hetherington1$46.00
31The Next War: Indications Intelligence in the Early Cold WarTimothy Andrews Sayle1$80.00
32Canadian History: A Captivating Guide to the History of Canada, French and Indian War, Klondike Gold Rush, and Quebec1$35.00
33Low Attack: The Story of Two Mosquito Squadrons in World War TwoJohn Wooldridge1$16.00
34Death at the Edges of Empire
Fallen Soldiers, Cultural Memory, and the Making of an American Nation, 1863–1921
Shannon Bontrager1$60.00
35Spy Ships
One Hundred Years of Intelligence Collection by Ships and Submarines
Norman Polmar and Lee J. Mathers1$35.00
36Empire between the Lines
Imperial Culture in British and French Trench Newspapers of the Great War
Elizabeth Stice1$60.00
37Enemies among Us
The Relocation, Internment, and Repatriation of German, Italian, and Japanese Americans during the Second World War
 John E. Schmitz1$65.00
38Cold War Resistance
The International Struggle over Antibiotics
Marc Landas1$40.00
39Operation Rising Sun
The Sinking of Japan’s Secret Submarine I-52
David W. Jourdan1$35.00
40Policing Sex and Marriage in the American Military-The Court-Martial and the Construction of Gender and Sexual Deviance, 1950–2000Kellie Wilson-Buford1$50.00
41Workers of War and Empire from New France to British America, 1688–1783Richard H. Tomczak1$110.00
42Watching the Bear
Canadian Intelligence Assessments of the Soviet Threat to North America, 1946–1964
Alan Barnes1$110.00
43Armes secrètes de la CIA (Les)
Tortures, manipulations et armes chimiques
Gordon Thomas1$40.00
44Du Saint-Laurent au Rhin
Carnets de guerre, 1914-1918
Joseph Alphonse Couture et Mourad Djebabla-Brun1$28.00
45Marqués du triangle roseKen Setterington1$18.00
46Repenser la multipolaritéÉric Mottet et Barthélémy Courmont1$35.00
47Les ailes d’une pionnièreJoanne Hamelin1$30.00
48Machine Guns & the Great WarPaul Cornish1$28.00
49Tank Gun Systems – The First Thirty Years, 1916–1945: A Technical ExaminationWilliam Andrews1$65.00
50Artists And Authors At WarHenry Buckton1$46.00
51War Photographers – IWM Photo CollectionIWM1$13.00
52Weird War Two – Intriguing Items and Surprising Stuff from the Second World WarPeter Taylor1$18.00
53Voices of VictoryGeraint Jones1$41.00
54Night of the Bayonets:
The Texel Uprising and Hitler’s Revenge – April-May 1945
Eric Lee1$39.00
55Securing the Continental Skies-The Development of North American Air Defence Co-operation, 1945–1958 Matthew Paul Trudgen1$110.00
56Cold War Workers-Labour, Family, and Community in a Nuclear StateIsabel Campbell 1$40.00
57No Place Like Home: Enemy Alien Internment in Canada during the Great WarBohdan S. Kordan1$25.00

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