Education

• B.A. University of Toronto
• M.A. University of Toronto
• D.Phil University of Oxford

Bio

Regularly offers undergraduate courses on the Evolution of Warfare (2500 BCE to Present) and  Twentieth-Century Europe, and, on occasion senior seminars. At the graduate level he offers reading and special topics courses, as needed, on War and Society as well as Modern Europe. 

Publications

• Flying Against Fate: Superstition and Allied Aircrews in World War II (2017)
• The Imjin and Kapyong Battles, Korea 1951 (2013)
• British Prisoners of the Korean War (2012)
• Bader's War (2008)
• The Battle of Britain on Screen: 'The Few' in British Film and Television Drama (2007)
• British War Films, 1939-1945: The Cinema and the Services (2006)
• The Colditz Myth: British Prisoners of War in Nazi Germany (2004)
• Revolutionary Armies in the Modern Era: A Revisionist Approach (1997)
• The Home Guard: A Military and Political History (1995)
• Politics and Military Morale: Current-Affairs Education in the British Army, 1914-1950 (1992)

Activities

I am currently working on sensory experiences aboard US Navy submarines in World War II.