
Adopt-a-Book Program 2022
The 2022 Adopt-a-Book List has is now ready. This year we have 90 Books available to be adopted.
The Friends thank all who supported Adopt-a-Book.
See List of Books below.
What is this program?
Each year, at the end of January, 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 1,090 titles with a value exceeding $46,000 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 2022
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 90 books of which 69 are in English and 21 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.
Number | Title | Author | Price | Notes |
1 | Fabric of War | Bill Alexander | SOLD | ENG |
2 | Biological and Toxin Weapons: Research, Development and Use from the Middle Ages to 1945 SOLD | John Ellis van Courtland Moon | SOLD | ENG |
3 | NCSM Montcalm Le français dans la Marine canadienne. 1923-2008 | Christian Hébert | SOLD | FR |
4 | Peur rouge (La) | Hugues Théoret | SOLD | FR |
5 | Ton kaki qui t’adore Lettres d’amour en temps de guerre | Denys Lessard | SOLD | FR |
6 | Stratèges, diplomates et espions | Sylvain Fortin | SOLD | FR |
7 | Trudeau et ses mesures de guerre Vus du Canada anglais | Guy Bouthillier et Édouard Cloutier | $30 | FR |
8 | Blessures de guerre Des camps nazis à l’Afghanistan | Gilbert Lavoie | $20 | FR |
9 | Calepin d’espoir | Émilien Dufresne et Danielle Dufresne | $15 | FR |
10 | Capitaine-Abbé Rosaire Crochetière Un vicaire dans les tranchées | Alain M. Bergeron | $20 | FR |
11 | Chronique d’une insurrection appréhendée, nouvelle édition | Éric Bédard | $25 | FR |
12 | Crise d’Oka (La | Emilie Guilbeault-Cayer | SOLD | FR |
13 | Monty and the Canadian Army | John A. English | SOLD | ENG |
14 | Canada at War: Conscription, Diplomacy, and Politics | J.L. Granatstein | SOLD | ENG |
15 | D DAY Through German Eyes – The Hidden Story of June 6th 1944 | Holger Eckhertz | SOLD | ENG |
16 | L’histoire militaire de Charlevoix racontée : De la période écossaise à une milice fédérale (1763-1901) | Raymond Falardeau | SOLD | FR |
17 | With Winston Churchill at the Front | Andrew Dewar Gibb | SOLD | ENG |
18 | Badges of the regular infantry 1914-1918 | David Bilton | SOLD | ENG |
19 | The Red Baron A Photographic Album of the First World War’s Greatest Ace, Manfred von Richthofen | Terry C Treadwell | SOLD | ENG |
20 | Wargames Terrain and Buildings -WWI Trench Systems | Douglas Hardy | SOLD | ENG |
21 | Empire of destruction | Alex J. Kay | $30 | ENG |
22 | Madam of the Maritimes: The Life and Times of Ada McCallum | Blain Henshaw | $20 | ENG |
23 | A Guide to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission | SOLD | ENG | |
24 | From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition, 1917-19 | Benjamin Isitt | SOLD | ENG |
25 | The Rise and Fall of Comradeship Hitler’s Soldiers, Male Bonding and Mass Violence in the Twentieth Century | Thomas Khune | SOLD | ENG |
26 | The Encyclopedia of Weapons of WWII: The Comprehensive Guide to over 1,500 Weapons Systems, Including Tanks, Small Arms, Warplanes, Artillery, Ships, and Submarines | SOLD | ENG | |
27 | Our War, how the british commonwealth fought the second world war | Christopher Somerville | SOLD | ENG |
28 | Guderian, souvenirs d’un soldat | Benoit Lemay | SOLD | FR |
29 | La guerre totale | Benoit Lemay | SOLD | FR |
30 | Les Ardennes 1944-1945 – L’Offensive D’Hiver De Hitler | CHRISTER BERGSTROM | SOLD | FR |
31 | Slaughter and Stalemate in 1917: British Offensives from Messines Ridge to Cambrai | Allen Warren | SOLD | ENG |
32 | Hitler’s Northern Utopia | Despina Stratigakos | $40 | ENG |
33 | Scorched Earth | Emmanuel Kreike | SOLD | ENG |
34 | Active Defense: China’s Military Strategy since 1949 | M Taylor Fravel | SOLD | ENG |
35 | D-Day: Minute by Minute | Jonathan Mayo | SOLD | ENG |
36 | D-Day and Normandy | Anthony Richards | SOLD | ENG |
37 | War Time Christmas | Anthony Richards | SOLD | ENG |
38 | Holocaust Education | Stuart Foster | $50 | ENG |
39 | Pearson’s Peacekeepers: Canada and the United Nations Emergency Force, 1956-67 | Michael K. Carroll | SOLD | ENG |
40 | African Peacekeeping | Jonathan Fisher | $35 | ENG |
41 | A Line of Blood and Dirt: Creating the Canada-United States Border across Indigenous Lands | Benjamin Hoy | $40 | ENG |
42 | A Medic’s Mind | Matthew Henneghan | SOLD | ENG |
43 | The Economic Weapon | Nicholas Mulder | $30 | ENG |
44 | Asia in Flanders Field | Dominiek Dendooven | $35 | ENG |
45 | Photographing the Fallen-A War Graves Photographer on the Western Front 1915–1919 | Jeremy Gordon-Smith | SOLD | ENG |
46 | The True Story of the Christmas Truce | Anthony Richards, | SOLD | ENG |
47 | Deserters of the First World War | Andrea Hetherington | $40 | ENG |
48 | DÖNITZ ET LA GUERRE DES U-BOOTE N.E.: 16 SEPTEMBRE – 24 DÉCEMBRE 1980 | Peter Padfield | SOLD | FR |
49 | The Devil’s Trick: How Canada Fought the Vietnam War | John Boyko | SOLD | ENG |
50 | The Historical Atlas of Weaponry | $60 | ENG | |
51 | Beyond the Great War: Making Peace in a Disordered World | Carl Bouchard | $60 | ENG |
52 | Biographical Index of Artists in Canada | Evelyn de R. McMann | SOLD | ENG |
53 | Canada’s Army: Waging War and Keeping the Peace, Third Edition | J.L. Granatstein | SOLD | ENG |
54 | Unbound in War?: International Law in Canada and Britain’s Participation in the Korean War and Afghanistan | Sean Richmond | SOLD | ENG |
55 | Part of Life Itself: The War Diary of Lieutenant Leslie Howard Miller, CEF | Leslie . Howard Miller | $70 | ENG |
56 | Spain, the Second World War, and the Holocaust: History and Representation | Sara J. Brenneis and Gina Herrmann | SOLD | ENG |
57 | How to Kill a Tiger Tank: Unpublished Scientific Reports from the Second World War | Craig Moore | SOLD | ENG |
58 | Hitler’s Navy: The Kriegsmarine in World War II | Gordon Williamson | SOLD | ENG |
59 | Panzer III | Thomas Anderson | $55 | ENG |
60 | British Naval Trawlers and Drifters in Two World Wars: From The John Lambert Collection | Steve R. Dunn | $90 | ENG |
61 | Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis | Serhii Plokhly | SOLD | ENG |
62 | Slaughter at Halbe: The Destruction of Hitler’s 9th Army | Tony Le Tissier | $30 | ENG |
63 | Bletchley Park’s Secret Source: Churchill’s Wrens and the Y Service in World War II | Peter Hore | SOLD | ENG |
64 | Operation Barbarossa: The History of a Cataclysm | Jonathan Dimbleby | $35 | ENG |
65 | Sherman Tank, Vol. 4: The M4A3 Medium Tank in World War II and Korea | David Doyle | SOLD | ENG |
66 | SOE Heroines: The Special Operations Executive’s French Section & Free French Women Agents | Bernard O’connor | SOLD | ENG |
67 | A photographic History Infantry Warfare, 1939–1945 | Simon Forty | SOLD | ENG |
68 | The Light of Days Young Readers’ Edition: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos | Judy Batalion | $20 | ENG |
69 | Bomber Command | Gordon AA Wilson | SOLD | ENG |
70 | The Pathfinders: The Elite RAF Force that Turned the Tide of WWII | Will Iredale | $45 | ENG |
71 | Escaping Hitler’s Bunker: The Fate of the Third Reich’s Leaders | Sjoerd J de Boer | SOLD | ENG |
72 | The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II | Svetlana Alexievich | SOLD | ENG |
73 | The Battle For Burma, 1942-1945 | Philip Jowett | SOLD | ENG |
74 | Blitzkrieg: The Invasion of Poland to the Fall of France | Stephen, Russell Hart | $50 | ENG |
75 | Radio Hitler: Nazi Airwaves in the Second World War | Nathan Morley | $40 | ENG |
76 | The Military History of the Bicycle: The Forgotten War Machine | John Norris | $40 | ENG |
77 | Korean Air War: Sabres, MiGs and Meteors, 1950–53 | Michael Napier | $50 | ENG |
78 | Sub Hunters: Australian Sunderland Squadrons in the Defeat of Hitler’s U-boat Menace 1942-43 | Antony Cooper | $50 | ENG |
79 | Animals in the Second World War | Neil R. Storey | $20 | ENG |
80 | The Western Front | Nick Lloyd | $35 | ENG |
81 | Operation Colossus | Lawrence Paterson | SOLD | ENG |
82 | World War II Fighter Planes Spotter’s Guide | Tony Holmes | $15 | ENG |
83 | Allied Armour, 1939–1945: British and American Tanks at War | Anthony Tucker-Jones | SOLD | ENG |
84 | British Empire Uniforms 1919 to 1939 | Edward Hallett | SOLD | ENG |
85 | Seconde guerre mondiale par les cartes | SOLD | FR | |
86 | La seconde Guerre mondiale | Ivor Mantale et Stephen Badsey | SOLD | FR |
87 | La seconde guerre mondiale | Isabelle Bournier, Bruno Heitz | SOLD | FR |
88 | Les Grandes erreurs de la Seconde Guerre mondiale | Jean Lopez & Olivier Wieviorka | SOLD | FR |
89 | Infographie de la seconde guerre mondiale | Nicolas Aubin | SOLD | FR |
90 | Seconde guerre mondiale à travers les cartes | Jeremy Black | $65 | FR |