Daniel Byers

• BA Hons (Wilfrid Laurier University), 1991
• MA (Wilfrid Laurier University), 1993
• PhD (McGill University), 2001

Canadian history; Canadian and international military history/war and society

​Recent publications:

• "Canada and the Mobilization of Manpower during the Second World War."  In Douglas E. Delaney, Mark Frost, and Andrew L. Brown, eds., Manpower and the Armies of the British Empire in the Two World Wars.  Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021.

• "The Battle for History: Nova Scotia's 85th Battalion and the Capture of Hill 145, Vimy Ridge, 1917-1943/La lutte pour une place dans l'histoire : le 85e Bataillon de la Nouvelle-Écosse et la prise de la cote 145 sur la crête de Vimy, 1917-1943."  Canadian Military Journal/ Revue militaire canadienne, Vol. 17, No. 2, Spring 2017: 34-44.

• Zombie Army: The Canadian Army and Conscription in the Second World War.  Vancouver and Toronto: University of British Columbia Press, 2016.

• "J.L. Ralston as Minister of National Defence During the Second World War: A Reassessment/Examen rétrospectif du mandat de J.L. Ralston, ministre de la Défense nationale pendant la Deuxième guerre mondiale." Canadian Army Journal/ Le Journal de l'Armée du Canada, Vol. 16, No. 1, Spring 2015: 70-95/76-103.

• "J.L. Ralston and the First World War: The Origins of a Life of Service."  Canadian Military History, Vol. 22, No. 1, Winter 2013: 3-16.