
Adopt-a-Book Program 2023
The 2023 Adopt-a-Book List is now ready. This year we have 87 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, 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 1,180 titles with a value exceeding $50,000 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 2023-2024
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 87 books of which 72 are in English and 17 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 | Histoire mondiale de la guerre froide | Odd Arne Westad | 55.00 | FR |
2 | Victory In The Kitchen – Wartime Recipes | IMW | SOLD | ENG |
3 | Dutchy’s Diaries | Helen Edwards | SOLD | ENG |
4 | Patriots, Traitors and Empires The Story of Korea’s Struggle for Freedom | Stephen Govans | 28.00 | ENG |
5 | Mussolini Also Did A Lot of Good The Spread of Historical Amnesia | Francesco Fillippi | SOLD | ENG |
6 | Washington’s Long War on Syria | Stephen Govans | 27.00 | ENG |
7 | Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa From Tragedy to Useful Imperial Fiction | Robin Philpot | 27.00 | ENG |
8 | The Einstein File The FBI’s Secret War Against the World’s Most Famous Scientist – New Updated Edition | Fred Jerome | 27.00 | ENG |
9 | Slouching Towards Sirte NATO’s War on Libya and Africa | Maximilian Forte | SOLD | ENG |
10 | The Fleet Air Arm | David Hobbs | SOLD | ENG |
11 | Wartime Industry | Neil R. Storey | 20.00 | ENG |
12 | Tiger vs Churchill | Neil Grant | 24.00 | ENG |
13 | Radar in Scotland 1938–46 | Ian Brown | SOLD | ENG |
14 | The Flying Sikh: The Story of a Ww1 Fighter Pilot – Flying Officer Hardit Singh Malik | Stephen Barker | 50.00 | ENG |
15 | Badges of the Territorial Infantry, 1914-1918 | David Bilton | SOLD | ENG |
16 | The Battle of Stalingrad through German Eyes | Jonatha Trigg | 42.00 | ENG |
17 | Nato and Warsaw Pact Tanks of the Cold War | Michael Green | 53.00 | ENG |
18 | Remarkable Women of the Second World War | Victoria Panton Bacon | SOLD | ENG |
19 | Churchill’s Arctic Convoys Strength Triumphs Over Adversity | William Smith | 45.00 | ENG |
20 | Lifesavers and Body Snatchers: Medical Care and the Struggle for Survival in the Great War | Tim Cook | SOLD | ENG |
21 | Fight to the Finish: Canadians in the Second World War, 1944-1945 | Tim Cook | SOLD | ENG |
22 | The Fight for History: 75 Years of Forgetting, Remembering, and Remaking Canada’s Second World War | Tim Cook | SOLD | ENG |
23 | Battleships and Battle Cruisers: Selected Photos from the Archives of the Kure Maritime Museum The Best from the Collection of Shizuo Fukui’s Photos of Japanese Warships | Kure Maritime Museum | SOLD | ENG |
24 | De la Préhistoire au Moyen-Âge | Hervé Drévillon et Giusto Traina | 75.00 | FR |
25 | Inventions of the Great War | A Russell Bond | SOLD | ENG |
26 | The Treaty of Versailles: A Captivating Guide to the Peace Treaty That Ended World War 1 and Its Impact on Germany and the Rise of Adolf Hitler | Captivating History | 40.00 | ENG |
27 | The Great War Illustrated 1914: Archive and Colour Photographs of WW1 | William Langford | SOLD | ENG |
28 | The Great War Illustrated 1915: Archive and Colour Photographs of WWI | William Langford, Jack Holroyd | SOLD | ENG |
29 | The Great War Illustrated 1916: Archive and Colour Photographs of WWI | Jack Holroyd | SOLD | ENG |
30 | The Great War Illustrated 1917: Archive and Colour Photographs of WWI | William Langford | SOLD | ENG |
31 | The Great War Illustrated 1918: Archive and Colour Photographs of WWI | Roni Wilkinson | SOLD | ENG |
32 | The Role of Birds in World War One: How Ornithology Helped to Win the Great War | Nicholas Milton | 35.00 | ENG |
33 | Asia in Flanders Fields: Indians and Chinese on the Western Front, 1914-1920 | Dominiek Dendooven | SOLD | ENG |
34 | Airborne Anti-Submarine Warfare: From the First World War to the Present Day | Michael E Glynn | SOLD | ENG |
35 | The Battle of Cambrai 1917: Moeuvres and Bourlon, Cantaing and Graincourt to Flesquieres, Masnieres, Gouzeaucourt and Gonnelieu | Jerry Murland | SOLD | ENG |
36 | Out of the Siege of Sarajevo: Memoirs of a Former Yugoslav | Jasna Levinger-Goy | SOLD | ENG |
37 | Wargaming Campaigns | Henry Hyde | 100.00 | ENG |
38 | Paras in Action: Ready for Anything – The Parachute Regiment Through the Eyes of Those who Served | Jason Woods | SOLD | ENG |
39 | From Hunter to Hunted: The U-Boat in the Atlantic, 1939–1943 | Bernard Edwards | SOLD | ENG |
40 | L’Âge classique. XVe-XIXe siècles | Hervé Drévillon | SOLD | FR |
41 | Supplying the British Army in the First World War | Janet Macdonald | SOLD | ENG |
42 | The Anglo-Soviet Alliance: Comrades and Allies During WW2 | Colin Turbett | 50.00 | ENG |
43 | The Second World War | Bradley Lightbody | SOLD | ENG |
44 | Why Taiwan Matters | Shelley Rigger | 50.00 | ENG |
45 | Stalingrad le tournant de la guerre | Francois Kersaudy | 35.00 | FR |
46 | The Knight of the North Atlantic | Aaron Hamilton | SOLD | ENG |
47 | The Battle for Burma 1942-1945 | Philip Jowett | SOLD | ENG |
48 | Camouflage: International Ground Force Patterns, 1946-2017 | Eric H Larson | SOLD | ENG |
49 | Victory at Sea: Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order in World War II | Paul Kennedy | SOLD | ENG |
51 | The Geographies of War | Jeremy Black | 60.00 | ENG |
52 | Dictionary of Fortifications: An Illustrated Glossary of Castles, Forts, and Other Defensive Works from Antiquity to the Present Day | Jean Denis Lepage | 50.00 | ENG |
53 | Laugh or Cry: The British Soldier on the Western Front, 1914-1918 | Peter Hart, Gary Bain | SOLD | ENG |
54 | Tommy’s War: British Military Memorabilia 1914-1918 | Peter Doyle | 35.00 | ENG |
55 | WWI Trench Systems | Douglas Hardy | SOLD | ENG |
56 | Deserters of the First World War | Andrea Hetherington | 50.00 | ENG |
57 | Battle for Bocage | Tim Saunders | 50.00 | ENG |
58 | Supplying the British Army in the Second World War | Janet Macdonald | SOLD | ENG |
59 | St Nazaire Raid 1942 | Stephen Wynn | 35.00 | ENG |
60 | The First Blitz in 100 Objects Livre relié | Ian Castle | 50.00 | ENG |
61 | U-boats at War in 100 Objects 1939–1945 | Gordon Williamson | 50.00 | ENG |
62 | Royal Flying Corps kitbag | Mark Hillier | 50.00 | ENG |
63 | Images of the National Archives Cold War | Stephen Twigge | 25.00 | ENG |
64 | Eyewitness at Dieppe: The Only First-Hand Account of WWII’s Most Disastrous Raid | Ross Weyburn | SOLD | ENG |
65 | Stealth War: How China Took Over While America’s Elite Slept | Robert Spalding | 25.00 | ENG |
66 | The Hundred-Year Marathon: China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower | Michael Pillsbury | SOLD | ENG |
67 | Unrestricted Warfare: China’s Master Plan to Destroy America | Qiao Liang | SOLD | ENG |
68 | Winter is coming | Garry Kasparov | SOLD | ENG |
69 | Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine | Anna Reid | 25.00 | ENG |
70 | Les Cahiers d’Ukraine : journal d’une invasion | Igort | SOLD | FR |
71 | Combattre pour l’Ukraine : 10 soldats racontent | Lasha Otkhmezuri | SOLD | FR |
72 | L’Ukraine : de l’indépendance à la guerre N. éd. | Alexandra Goujon | SOLD | FR |
73 | La Seconde Guerre mondiale : les grands concepts expliqués | Collectifs | SOLD | FR |
74 | La Guerre 1914-1918 | Christine Sagnier | SOLD | FR |
75 | Infographie de la Seconde Guerre mondiale | Nicolas Aubin & Al | SOLD | FR |
76 | Code chaos : apprendre à diriger | Jim Mattis Bing West | SOLD | FR |
77 | 200 questions, 200 réponses sur la Seconde Guerre mondiale | Jean Lopez | SOLD | FR |
78 | Les Mythes de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale | Jean Lopez | SOLD | FR |
79 | The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America | Timothy Snyder | SOLD | ENG |
80 | An Unladylike Profession American Women War Correspondents in World War I | Chris Dubbs | SOLD | ENG |
81 | Dieppe a Necessary Failure | Henry Buckton | SOLD | ENG |
82 | Desert Armour – Tank warfare in North Africa | Robert Forczyk | SOLD | ENG |
83 | Bitter Peleliu | Joseph Wheelan | 40.00 | ENG |
84 | Combat Divers: An illustrated history of Special Forces divers | Michael G Welham | 54.00 | ENG |
85 | The soviet century: Archaeology of a Lost World | Karl Schlögel | 55.00 | ENG |
86 | Guerre mondiales et impériales. 1870-1945 | Hervé Drévillon et André Loez et al. | SOLD | FR |
87 | Guerre sans frontières. 1945 à nos jours | Louis Gautier, | SOLD | FR |