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Alexander, Bevin.  How Great Generals Win. London: W.W. Norton & Company, 1993.

Alexrod, Alan. Elizabeth I CEO.  Paramus: Prentice Hall Press, 2000.

Ambrose, Stephen E.  Eisenhower, Vol 1: Soldier, General of the Army, President Elect 1890-1952.  Norwalk: Easton, 1983.

Ambrose, Stephen E. Supreme Commander: The War Years of General Dwight D. Eisenhower. Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday, 1970.

Anders, Curt. Fighting Generals. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1965.

Andidora, Ronald.  Iron Admirals: Naval Leadership in the Twentieth Century. London: Greenwood Press, 2000.

Atkinson, Rick. An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2002.

Barnett, Correlli. The Desert Generals. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982.

Barr, Niall. Pendulum of War: The Three Battles of El Alamein. London: Overlook TP, 2006.

Bashow, David L. No Prouder Place: Canadians and the Bomber Command Experience, 1939-1945.  St Catherines: Vanwell Publishing, 2008.

Bercuson, David. One Christmas in Washington: The Alliance That Won the War. London: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2005.

Bercuson, David and Jack Granatstein.  Dictionary of Canadian Military History.  London: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Bercuson, David and S.F. Wise (ed). The Valour and the Horror Revisited. Kingston: McGill-Queens University Press, 1994.

Berton, Pierre.  Vimy. Toronto: Anchor Canada/Random House, 1986.

Beurling, George. Malta Spitfire: The Diary of a Fighter Pilot (Greenhill Military Paperbacks). Toronto: Greenhill Books, 2002.

Bevin, Alexander.  How Great Generals Win.  London: W.W. Norton & Company Inc., 1993.

Bishop, Arthur. Courage on the Battlefield: Volume II Canada’s Military Heritage. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1993.

Blumenson, Martin and James L. Stokesbury. Masters of the Art of Command. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1975.

Borden, Bradford. Training for Victory: The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan in the West (2nd Ed).  London: Authorhouse, 2003.

Bothwell, Robert and William Kilbourn. C.D. Howe: A Biography. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1979.

Buckley, John. Air Power in the Age of Total War. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.

Byers, A.R., ed.  The Canadians at War 1939/45, Second Edition.  Westmount:  Reader’s Digest Association, 1986.

Carter, Ian. Coastal Command 1939-45. London: Ian Allan Ltd., 2004.

Carter, William S.  Anglo-Canadian Wartime Relations, 1939-1945.  New York:  Garland Publishing, 1991.

Chartrand, Rene.  Canadian Forces in World War II. London: Osprey Books, 2001.

Carver, Field Marshal Sir Michael.  The War Lords.  London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1976.

Christie, Carl.  Ocean Bridge: The History of RAF Ferry Command. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995.

Churchill, Winston and John Keegan.  The Second World War.  London: Mariner Books, 1986.

Churchill, Winston S.  Haig: Famous British Generals. London: Nicholson and Watson, 1951.

Rooney, David (Edited by G.D. Sheffield)  Leadership and Command. London: Brassey’s UK Ltd., 1997.

Cohen, Eliot A. Supreme Command.  New York: Simon & Shuster Inc, 2002.

Cohen, Eliot and John Gouch.  Military Misfortunes: The Anatomy of Failure in War.  New York: Vintage Books, 1991.

Connell, John.  Wavell:  Scholar and Soldier to June 1941.   London: Collins, 1964.

Conrad, Peter C. Training for victory: The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan in the West.  Edmonton: Western Producer Prairie Books, 1989.

Cull, Brian.  Spitfires Over Malta: The Epic Air Battles of 1942. Toronto: Grub Street, 2005.

D’Alessandro, David F. Executive Warfare. Chicago: McGraw Hill, 2008.

De Weerd, Harvey.  Great Soldiers of the Two World Wars.  New York: Books for Libraries Press, 1969.

D’Este, Carlo. Eisenhower: A Soldier’s Life. New York: Henry Holt, 2002.

Dextraze, General Jacques A. "The Art of Leadership." Canadian Armed Forces Personnel Newsletter. June 1973.

Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1997.

Douglas, W.A.B. The Creation of a National Air Force: The Official History of the Royal Canadian Air Force, Volume II. Toronto & Ottawa: University of Toronto Press and Supply and Services Canada, 1986.

Douglas, W.A.B. and Brereton Greenhous. Out of the Shadows: Canada in the Second World War. Toronto: Dundurn Group, 1995.

Dunmore, Spencer. Reap the Whirlwind: The Untold Story of 6 Group Canada's Bomber Force of World War II. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1991.

Dunmore, Spencer and Carter, William.  Reap The Whirlwind:  The Untold Story Of 6 Group, Canada’s Bomber Force of World War II.  Toronto:  McClelland & Stewart, 1991.

Dunmore, Spencer.  Wings for Victory: The Remarkable Story of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan in Canada. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1995.

Eayrs, James. In Defence of Canada. Volumes 1-5.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985.

Elphick, Peter. Singapore The Pregnable Fortress: A Study in Deception, Discord and Desertion. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1995.

English, Allan D ed. The Changing Face of War: Learning from History.  Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1998.

English, Allan D. The Cream of the Crop: Canadian Aircrew 1939-1945.  Kingston: McGill-Queens University Press, 1996.

Essame, H. Patton The Commander. London: B.T. Batsford Limited, 1974.

Forty, George. The Armies of George S. Patton. London: Arms and Armour, 1996.

Fraser, David.  Knight's Cross: The life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.  New York: HarperCollins, 1993.

Fuller, Major General J.F.C. Generalship: Its Diseases and Their Cure.  Harrisburg, Pa: Military Service Publishing Company, 1936.

German, Tony. The Sea Is At Our Gates. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Inc., 1990.

Grabsky, Phil.  The Great Commanders.  Great Britain: Boxtree Limited, 1993.

Granatstein, J.  Canada’s Army.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004.

Granatstein, J.  The Generals: The Canadian Army's Senior Commanders in the Second World War (Beyond Boundaries: Canadian Defence and Strategic Studies). Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2005.

Granatstein, J.  The Last Good War: An Illustrated History of Canada in the Second World War 1939-1945. Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, 2005.

Granatstein, J.L. Canada’s War: The Politics of the Mackenzie King Government, 1939-1945. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1975.

Gray, Colin. Modern Strategy.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Greenhous, Brereton. The Making of Billy Bishop.  Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2002.

Greenhouse, Brereton; Harris, Stephen; Johnston, William; and Rawling, William.  The Crucible of War, 1939-1945:  The Official History of The Royal Canadian Air Force, Volume III.  Toronto:  University Of Toronto Press, 1994.

Harris, Stephen J. Canadian Brass: The Making of a Processional Army, 1860-1939.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991.

Hartle, A. Moral Issues in Military Decision Making.  Kansas: University of Kansas Press, 2004.

Horn, Bernd and Stephen J. Harris eds. Generalship and the Art of the Admiral.  St.Catharines: Vanwell Publishing Ltd., 2001.

Horn, Bernd ed.  Forging a Nation.  St. Catharines: Vanwell Publishing Ltd., 2002.

Howard, Michael and Peter Paret. Carl von Clausewitz On War.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989.

Hoyt, Edwin P. Yamamoto: The Man Who Planned Pearl Harbor.  New York: McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, 1990.

Huntington, Samuel. The Soldier and the State. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1981.

Johnson, Major E.A. Trenton: 50 Years of Air Force. Toronto: Galaxii Graphics, 1981.

Keegan, John. Mask of Command. New York: Viking Penguin Inc., 1987.

Keegan, John. The Face of Battle. New York: Viking Penguin Inc., 1976.

Kelly, Orr.  Meeting the Fox. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2002.

Kirkpatrick, Lyman B. Jr. Captains without Eyes: Intelligence Failures in World War II. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1987.

Kolenda, Christopher ed.  Leadership: The Warrior’s Art.  Carlisle: The Army War College Foundation Press, 2001.

Krause, Donald G. Sun Tzu: The Art of War for Executives. London: Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2005.

Lavigne, Michel and James F. Edwards. Kittyhawks over the Sands: The Canadians and The RCAF Americans.  Victoriaville: Lavigne Aviation Publications, 2002.

Lee, Loyd E., World War II.  London:  Greenwood Press, 1999.

Lewin, Ronald.  Rommel as Military Commander.  London:  B.T. Batsford Ltd, 1968.

Liddell Hart, B.H.  History of the Second World War.  London: Cassell & Company Ltd., 1973.

Lucas, James., ed. Command – From Alexander the Great to Zhukov – The Greatest Commanders of World History.  London: Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd., 1988.

Matthews, Lloyd and Brown, Dale, ed.  The Challenge Of Military Leadership.  New York: Pergamon-Brassey’s, 1989.

McCaffery, Dan.  Battlefields In The Air: Canadians In The Allied Bomber Command.  Toronto: James Lorimer & Company, 1995.

McCaffrey, Dan.  Billy Bishop: Canadian Hero. Toronto: Lorimer, 2002.

McNeill, Ross. Royal Air Force Coastal Command. London: Ian Allan Ltd., 2003.

Merrill, James M. A Sailor’s Admiral: A Biography of William F. Halsey. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1976.

Milner, Marc. Canada’s Navy: The First Century. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999.

Montgomery of Alamein, Bernard, Field-Marshal the Viscount.  The Path to Leadership.  London: Collins, 1961.

Moorehead, Alan. Desert War: The North African Campaign. London: Penguin Books, 2001.

Morton, Desmond. A Military History of Canada.  Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1999.

Neillands, Robin.  The Eighth Army. London: Overlook Books, 2004.

Northouse, Peter G. Leadership: Theory and Practice. Thousand Oaks Ca: Sage Publications, 2001.

Pagonis, William G. Moving Mountains: Lessons in Leadership and Logistics from the Gulf War. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1992.

Paret, Peter.  Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age.   New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1986.

Pickersgill, J.W. The Mackenzie King Record: Volume 1, 1939-1944. Toronto: The University of Toronto Press, 1960.

Puryear, Edgar F. 19 Stars: A Study in Military Character and Leadership. California: Presidio Press, 1971.

Ralph, Wayne. Aces, Warriors and Wingmen: The Firsthand Accounts of Canada's Fighter Pilots in the Second World War.  Toronto: Wiley Publishing, 2005.

Raugh, Harold E Jr.  Wavell in the Middle East 1939-1941 – A Study in Generalship. London: Brassey’s UK Ltd., 1993.

Rooney, David.  Military Mavericks: Extraordinary Men of Battle.  London: Cassell & Company, 1999.

Roskill, Captain S.W.  The Art of Leadership.  London: Collins Press, 1964.

Sarty, Roger. The Maritime Defence of Canada. Toronto: The Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies, 1996.

Sheffield, G.D., ed.  Leadership and Command.  London: Brassey’s UK Ltd., 1997.

Shores, Christopher. Malta: The Spitfire Year, 1942. London: Grub Street, 1992.

Shores, Christopher.  Those Other Eagles. London: Grub Street, 2004.

Showalter, Dennis.  Patton and Rommel. New York: Berkeley Publishing, 2006.

Sixsmith, E. K. G. Eisenhower as Military Commander. New York, NY: Stein and Day, 1973.

Slim, Field Marshal Sir William. Defeat into Victory.  Toronto: Macmillan, 2001.

Slim, Field Marshal Sir William. Courage and Other Broadcasts. London: Cassell and Company Ltd, 1957.

Spahr, William J.  Zhukov: The Rise and Fall of a Great Captain.  Novato:  Presidio, 1993.

Stacey, C.P. Arms, Men and Government: The War Policies of Canada, 1939-1945. Ottawa: The Queen’s Printer for Canada, 1970.

Swinson, Arthur. Mountbatten. New York: Ballantine Books Inc., 1971.

Townsend, Patrick L. and Joan E. Gebhardt.  Five Star Leadership: The Art and Strategy of Creating Leaders at Every Level. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1997.

Van Crevald, Martin. Command in War. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985.

Von Clausewitz, Carl. On War.  Princeton New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1989.

Walzer, M. Just and Unjust Wars. New York: Basic Books, 2000.

Warden, John. Air Campaign: Planning for Combat.  New York: Toexcell, 1998.

Watson, Bruce Allen.  Exit Rommel – The Tunisian Campaign, 1942-1943.  Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1999.

Weatherford, Jack. Genghis Khan.  New York: Three Rivers Press, 2004.

Williams, James N. The Plan. Toronto: Canada’s Wings, 1984.

Wood, W.J. Leaders and Battles: The Art of Military Leadership. Novato: Presidio, 1984.

Wright, Robert.  The Man Who Won The Battle of Britain. New York: Scribner, 1970.