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New Library Acquisitions
The Institute Library is one of the largest private military collections in North America, with over 15,000 volumes, and is constantly expanding its collection with new material.
The library has a fine collection of military poetry and is actively seeking to expand its holdings with recently published works as well as older titles.
We welcome donations of new books from authors and publishers, many of which are featured here.
New Books: February 6, 2025

War and Peace: The Life and Times of
General Sir Richard Barrons
By Richard Barrons
Pen & Sword Military, 2024


War
By Bob Woodward
Simon & Schuster, 2024

Disobeying Hitler: German Resistance
After Operation Valkyrie
By Randall Hansen
Doubleday Canada, 2024

Montreal At War: 1914-1918
By Terry Copp, Alexander Maavara
U of T Press, 2022

Ghosts on the Somme: Filming
the Battle: June - July 1916
By Alastair H. Fraser, Andrew Robertshaw,
Steve Roberts
Pen & Sword Military, 2016
New Books: September 9, 2022

Give Me Shelter: The Failure of
Canada's Cold War Civil Defence
By Andrew Burtch
UBC Press, 2012

Patriot: A Memoir
By Alexei Navalny
Alfred A. Knopf, 2024

Cold War Fighters: Canadian
Aircraft Procurement, 1945-54
by Randall Wakelam
UBC Press, 2011

Baptism of Fire: The Second
Battle of Ypres and the Forging
of Canada, April 1915
By Nathan M. Greenfield
HarperCollins, 2007

Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels
Who Brought Churchill To Power and
Helped Save England
By Lynne Olson
Anchor Canada, 2008