A modern visit to the Abbaye d’Ardenne near Caen, France, where 20 Canadian prisoners of war were executed by members of the 12th SS Panzer Division in June 1944. The discovery of this “killing field” prompted one of the first war crimes [...]
A fascinating look by Sian Price on at letters from the front. The collection features 70 letters chosen from more than 30 000 letters she read in more than 10 different countries including Canada, the US, Britain, Australia, Wales and [...]
In Honour of David Patterson’s talk tomorrow night (the First of the 2012 Winter lecture Series) our first Wednesday Video is a clip of 10th Mountain Division (in 2009) from the New York Times in depth look at the US in Afghanistan ”A [...]
David Hall is a Senior Lecturer in the Defence Studies Department, King’s College London, based at the Joint Services Command and Staff College, Shrivenham, United Kingdom. He has a D.Phil. in modern history from the University of Oxford, and he [...]
Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Heritage Minister James Moore are promoting plans to commemorate the bicentennial of the War of 1812 as an “expression of a clear full Canadian identity.” Terry Copp, who is currently teaching a War and [...]
P. Whitney Lackenbauer is an Associate Professor and Chair, History Department at St. Jerome’s University, Waterloo and a Faculty Associate of the LCMSDS
The video of The Annual Admiral Sir Charles Kingsmill Lecture by Marc Milner, Director of the UNB Milton F. Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society held at the University of Guelph and sponsored by the LCMSDS and [...]
“Before the Race to Messina: 1st Canadian and 1st US Infantry Divisions and the Battle for Central Sicily, July-August 1943″ Dr. Lee Windsor specializes in Canadian Army history from the Second World War up to and including current missions abroad. His [...]
Lecture by Tim Cook: Always look on the Bright Side of Strife The Author of the two volume history, At the sharp end. Canadian’s fighting The Great War, 1914-1916
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