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According to Wikipedia, David Jay Bercuson is a Canadian labour, military, and political historian. Career Born on 31 August 1945 in Montreal, Quebec, he attended Sir George Williams University, graduated there in 1965 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history, and was awarded the Lieutenant-Governor's Silver Medal for the highest standing in history. He continued his studies at the University of Toronto under Ken McNaught and Ramsay Cook and received Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in history in 1967 and 1971, respectively. His doctoral thesis was Labour in Winnipeg: The Great War and the General Strike. In 1970–1971, he was a visiting assistant professor at the University of Calgary. After he had received his PhD, he was appointed assistant professor. He is now a full professor at the University of Calgary and the director of the university's Centre for Military and Strategic Studies. He is also the Director of Programs at the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute, based in Calgary.

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Significant Incident: Canada's Army, the Airborne, and the Murder in Somalia (1996) (42)
Petrified Campus: The Crisis in Canada's Universities. (1998) (30)
Confrontation at Winnipeg: Labour, industrial relations, and the general strike (1974) (27)
Canada and the Burden of Unity (1986) (20)
Deconfederation: Canada without Quebec (1991) (20)
Fools and Wise Men: The Rise and Fall of the One Big Union (1979) (19)
A Trust Betrayed: The Keegstra Affair (1985) (19)
UP FROM THE ASHES: THE RE-PROFESSIONALIZATION OF THE CANADIAN FORCES AFTER THE SOMALIA AFFAIR* (2009) (18)
The Great Brain Robbery: Canada's Universities on the Road to Ruin (1985) (18)
The Valour and the Horror Revisited (1994) (15)
The World in Canada: Diaspora, Demography, and Domestic Politics (2008) (15)
Arctic Leverage: Canadian Sovereignty and Security. (1990) (13)
Canada and the Birth of Israel: A Study in Canadian Foreign Policy (1985) (12)
Confrontation at Winnipeg: Labour, Industrial Relations, and the General Strike. (1976) (10)
Through the Looking Glass of Culture: An Essay on the New Labour History and Working-Class Culture in Recent Canadian Historical Writing (1981) (10)
Sacred Trust?: Brian Mulroney and the Conservative Party in Power (1987) (10)
Blood on the Hills: The Canadian Army in the Korean War (2002) (9)
For ‘Patients of Moderate Means’: The Transformation of Ontario’s Public General Hospitals, 1880–1950 (2016) (9)
The Great Brain Robber: Canada's Universities on the Orad to Ruin. (1987) (8)
An Atlantic region political culture: a chimera (1981) (6)
Western labour radicalism and the One Big Union: Myths and realities (1974) (6)
Industry and humanity: A study in the principles of industrial reconstruction (1973) (6)
Essence of Indecision: Diefenbaker's Nuclear Policy, 1957–1963 (review) (2010) (6)
Eastern and Western Perspectives: Papers from the Joint Atlantic Canada-Western Canadian Studies Conference (1981) (5)
The Collins dictionary of Canadian history: 1867 to the present (1988) (5)
The secret army (1983) (4)
Dictionary of Canadian Military History (1992) (4)
Organized Labour and the Imperial Munitions Board (1973) (4)
Derailed: The betrayal of the national dream (1994) (4)
SAC vs Sovereignty: The Origins of the Goose Bay Lease, 1946–52 (1989) (4)
The great brain robbery : Canada's universities on the road to ruin (1986) (4)
The Public Archives of Canada and the Historical Profession (1981) (3)
Korea: Canada’s Forgotten War by John Melady (review) (2016) (3)
Canadian labour history : selected readings (1988) (3)
Tragedy at Bellevue: anatomy of a mine disaster. (1978) (2)
The destruction of the Bismarck (2001) (2)
10. From Paardeberg to Panjwai: Canadian National Interests in Expeditionary Operations (2012) (2)
Long Night of the Tankers: Hitler's War Against Caribbean Oil (2014) (2)
Regionalism and “Unlimited Identity” in Western Canada (1980) (2)
One Christmas in Washington: Churchill and Roosevelt Forge the Grand Alliance (2005) (2)
A CHA for the 80s (1983) (2)
The Diplomacy of Prudence: Canada and Israel, 1948–1958 by Zachariah Kay (review) (2016) (2)
The Franco-Canadian communities of western Canada since 1945 (1981) (2)
The Canadian Historical Review and the State of the Profession: a View on our Sixtieth Birthday (1980) (1)
Political culture in the west (1981) (1)
Canada-US Defence Relations Post-11 September (2003) (1)
Some Frank Words about the Canadian Historical Review (1977) (1)
Three generations of fiction: an introduction to prairie cultural history (1981) (1)
The Winnipeg General Strike, Collective Bargaining, and the One Big Union Issue (1970) (1)
Canada And The Birth Of Israel (1985) (1)
Avoiding Armageddon: Canadian Military Strategy and Nuclear Weapons: 1950-1963 (review) (2004) (1)
R. B. Russell and the labour movement (1978) (1)
Fools and wise men (1978) (1)
Fighting the Defensive Battle on the Jamestown Line: The Canadians in Korea, November 1951 (1998) (1)
Colonies: Canada to 1867 // Review (1996) (1)
The Destruction of the Bismarck / the Loss of the Bismarck: An Avoidable Disaster (2002) (1)
Book Reviews (2003) (0)
Editors' note (2007) (0)
EIGHT: Blood on the Hills (2002) (0)
Advertising for Prestigeâ€: Publicity in Canada-US Arctic Defence Cooperation, 1946-48 (2011) (0)
FOUR: Kap’yong (2002) (0)
Patterns of prairie urban development 1871-1950 Urban (1981) (0)
Patrick Brode. Casual Slaughters and Accidental Judgements: Canadian War Crimes Prosecutions, 1944–1948. Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History. 1997. Pp. xix, 290. $39.95 (1999) (0)
5. ‘With heavy hearts’ (1985) (0)
SIX: The Saddle (2002) (0)
Eisenhower and the German POWs: Facts Against Falsehood ed. by Gunter Bischof, Stephen E. Ambrose (review) (2019) (0)
Labour Radicalism and the Western Industrial Frontier: 1897–1919 (2016) (0)
Treasuring the Tradition (2019) (0)
8. ‘Numerous uncertainties’ (1985) (0)
EPILOGUE: Home from the Hills (2002) (0)
Sovereignty or Security? Government Policy in the Canadian North 1936–1950 by Shelagh D. Grant (review) (2016) (0)
Why Quebec and Canada Must Part (1995) (0)
Dreaming of What Might Be: The Knights of Labor in Ontario, 1880–1900. By Gregory S. Kealey and Bryan Palmer. (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1982. xv + 487 pp. $49.50.) (1983) (0)
Should Canada enter the business of gathering foreign intelligence? Reid Morden says it may be time to do just that (2006) (0)
The Valour and the Horror Controversy and the Official History of the RCAF , Volume 3 (1994) (0)
TWO: The Special Force (2002) (0)
4. ‘The best possible person’ (1985) (0)
Film and Video Review (1997) (0)
The writing of history in western Canada (1981) (0)
SEVEN: The Line (2002) (0)
1. ‘A modest beginning’ (1985) (0)
FIVE: The Brigade (2002) (0)
The Third Man: Churchill, Roosevelt, Mackenzie King, and the Untold Friendships That Won WWII by Neville Thompson (review) (2021) (0)
The Canadian War Museum and Bomber Command: My Perspective (2011) (0)
Clio's Warriors: Canadian Historians and the Writing of the World Wars (review) (2007) (0)
Nationalism, Communism and Canadian Labour: The CIO, the Communist party, and the Canadian Congress of Labour 1935–1956 by Irving Abella (review) (1975) (0)
9. ‘Half a loaf’ (1985) (0)
War and the New Global Order: Has Anything Really Changed? (1998) (0)
7. ‘Zero hour in Palestine’ (1985) (0)
INTRODUCTION: The Forgotten War (2002) (0)
List of participants (2007) (0)
Canada's Historical Search for Trade Markets (2020) (0)
Military Strategy in War and Peace: Introduction (2010) (0)
Archives Notes (2016) (0)
Winnipeg 1919: The Strikers own History of the Winnipeg General Strike ed. by Norman Penner (review) (2016) (0)
Historians in Canada (1962) (0)
6. ‘A temporary trusteeship’ (1985) (0)
10. ‘A gesture of confidence’ (1985) (0)
The Third Man: Churchill, Roosevelt, Mackenzie King, and the Untold Friendships That Won WWII. Neville Thompson (2021) (0)
2. ‘Abominable outrages’ (1985) (0)
Introduction: The Palestine question (1985) (0)
Toronto Workers Respond to Industrial Capitalism, 1867–1892. By Gregory S. Kealey. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980. xviii + 433 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $27.50; paper, $12.50.) (1981) (0)
The Roar of the Twenties by James Gray (review) (2016) (0)
Seeing Canada Whole: A Memoir by J.W. Pickersgill, and: Which Reminds Me – A Memoir by Mitchell Sharp (review) (2016) (0)
Prairie Fire: A Personal View (2000) (0)
‘Ethics’ and the Historian (1982) (0)
3. ‘A duty which could not be evaded’ (1985) (0)
The Diplomat: Lester Pearson and the Suez Crisis, by Antony Anderson (2018) (0)
ONE: Canada’s Post-War Army (2002) (0)
THREE: Preparing for Battle (2002) (0)

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