The Remarkable Saga of the 16th Battalion (Canadian Scottish) in the First World War.

This is the story of the average Canadian who volunteered for the Canadian Expeditionary Force told through the lens of one battalion—the 16th Battalion (Canadian Scottish) of the 1st Canadian Infantry Division. This Highland Regiment fought in the Ypres Salient and in the Somme, at Vimy, Passchendaele, and Amiens. It suffered the first gas attack; its ranks were decimated as it fought at virtually every major battle in the European theatre.

From the declaration of war to the cessation of hostilities, Zuehlke follows the battalion from marshalling and training in Canada, across the Atlantic to England, and then landing in Europe. In graphic detail he takes the reader into the trenches and onto the shell-pocked battlefields, through assaults on ridges and wooded valleys. Brave Battalion is not a sweeping history of the conflict. It is rather the story of war on the ground as told through the accomplishments of a band of brothers—the Canadian Scottish—who came to represent the best of what Canada sent into battle.

Publisher John Wiley & Sons Canada, Ltd., 2008: 287 pages.

Reviews:

Victoria Times Colonist: “No other Canadian can tell military stories the way Zuehlke can. He is able to turn the complexities of war into good reading for the masses…Brave Battalion should be required reading in schools in Victoria, and in Hamilton, Vancouver and Winnipeg too—and in every other community that gave a son to the CanScots or any other unit.”

For Honour's Sake: The War of 1812 and the Brokering of an Uneasy Peace

In August 1814, eight men gathered in the ancient Flemish city of Ghent. Their desperate mission was to end a tragic war between Great Britain and the United States that was now more than two years old. It was a war that had gone badly for both sides; a war that could only resolve itself on the battlefield with either the defeat of the new Republic or the destruction of British North America. As the five Americans and three Britons struggled over four months to find common ground for a treaty, the war raged on—Washington burned, an army was defeated at Plattsburgh, both sides finally realizing that neither could ever achieve decisive victory on the battlefield. The only hope for peace was to be found in the drawing room of a monastery in Ghent where the destiny of a continent on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean rested in the hands of a disparate group that counted in its number a future American president, the Congressman who many credited for having forced the United States into the war, a disgraced British admiral, and the young British diplomat who held the key to either make or break the peace.

Published by Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2006: 443 pages.

Awards:

2007 Canadian Authors Association Lela Common Award for Canadian History winner.

2007 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize Finalist.

Reviews:

Ken McGoogan, The Globe & Mail: "...an authoritative and convincing work....A notable contribution to his growing body of work....In detailing the various battles...Zuehlke subjects his readers to a waterfall of information. And yet, as leaders perish and bodies pile up, Zuehlke emerges out of the mist to capture the ebb and flow, the constantly changing momentum of the war." For Honour's Sake "provides a broader, more provocative context than usual."

Quill & Quire: " For Honour's Sake is a rollicking and thoroughly enjoyable survey of the War of 1812. From casus belli to peace treaty, Mark Zuehlke brings his prodigious writing talent to the history of a war that was inconclusive for its US and UK belligerents, but enormously important for the future nation-state of Canada."

The Gallant Cause: Canadians in the Spanish Civil War, 1936 - 1939

In ragged uniforms, with obsolete equipment, hundreds of Canadians fought to the death against a massive army equipped by Hitler and Mussolini. The Gallant Cause chronicles the role Canadian volunteers played as members of the International Brigade fighting against fascism in a land far from home for a cause their government opposed. Excerpt from the book.

Published by John Wiley & Sons, Canada, 2007: 303 pages.

Reviews:

Esprit de Corps: "A gracefully written account of war that should be read by every high school kid in every history class across the land."

Lewis MacKenzie, MSC, CD, Major General (retired): "Mark Zuehlke has breathed life into the saga of ordinary Canadians' participation in the battle against fascism during the Spanish Civil War. This is no grand historical analysis, but rather an insight to a glorious cause as seen through the eyes of dedicated anti-fascists and yes, in some cases, romantic young Canadians."

Pier: "Well-written, entertaining, informative, and sometimes almost unbearably poignant. Read it."

Canadian Military Atlas: Four Centuries of Conflict from New France to Kosovo. Maps by C. Stuart Daniel, Starshell Maps.

The visual story of Canada's distinguished fighting record told in detailed maps and succinct text, from two masters of their craft.

Canadian soldiers have long offered the greatest sacrifices with tremendous skill and courage. Now, in one stunning full-colour volume fully updated and for the first time in paperback, the battlefields on which Canadian soldiers fought so valiantly have been mapped out.

Mark Zuehlke, widely regarded as Canada's pre-eminent military historian, adds historical background and insightful commentary to C. Stuart Daniel's more than eighty intricately detailed maps of four hundred years of Canada's battlefields. The French and Indian Wars, the battles of Ypres and Passchendaele, Dieppe, D-Day, Korea and Kosovo.. Zuehlke and Daniel have painstakingly researched every battle in every war, on the ground, in the air and at sea.

Published by Douglas & McIntyre, 2006: 228 pages.

Reviews:

Maclean's: "powerfully evocative.. In his concluding sections, Zuehlke moves from Canada's war history to its peacekeeping operations, listing the nation's 73 missions and raising questions many of them prescient in the light of the Afghanistan conflict about the military's role in future conflicts."

Esprit de Corps: "The Canadian Military Atlas is a Christmas must for military enthusiasts and students of Canadian history."

The Globe and Mail: " Magnificent."