New Books

The RCMI 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: July 10, 2025

Soldiers of the King: South Simcoe
County's Losses in the Great War
By William A. Magill
William A. Magill, 2025

The Canadian Veterans Party: Volume 1.
How Canadian Veterans, Led By
An Algonquin Woman, Came To
Power Legally (Fiction)
By Bruce Stock
Warpath Press, 2024

Death Is Our Business:
Russian Mercenaries and the
New Era of Private Warfare
By John Lechner
Bloomsbury, 2025

The General (Fiction)
By C.S. Forester
William Collins, 2015
Originally published 1936

Preparing for the Great War:
West Point Cadet Henry Henley Chapman,
Class of 1917. Correspondence Home.
By Richard G. Lomax
Military Postal History Society, 2025

An Army of Never-Ending Strength:
Reinforcing the Canadians in
Northwest Europe 1944-45
By Arthur W. Gullachsen
UBC Press, 2021

New Books: September 9, 2022

The Last Rotation:
Afghanistan - A War Diary
By Scott Oikle
oikllerspublishing, 2025

Horses, Howitzers, and Hymns:
The Story of Lieut. Skey, MC, and
His Father in the Great War
By Marianne S. Goodfellow
Friesen Press, 2025

They Gave Their All:
Canadian Merchant Navy Sailors
4-volume set
By Robert P. D'Aoust
Lehmann Bookbinding Ltd., 2019

Love and War: From the Fronts and the
Home Fronts. The Letters of Lt. Col. Dr. Charles
Pinch & Lt. Nursing Sister Gretta Hope
1940-1944
by Susan Pinch Brown
MT Printers, 2025

Churchill's Citadel: Chartwell
and the Gatherings Before the Storm
By Katherine Carter
Yale University Press, 2024

The Opinionated Middle Ground:
Consensus is Possible and
Polarization is Curable
By John Scott Cowan
Sutherland House, 2023