Zombie Army

Daniel Byers is an assistant professor in the Department of History at Laurentian University. He has published in the Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, Canadian Military History, the Canadian Army Journal, the Bulletin d'histoire politique, and Ontario History.

• IntroductionPart 1: The Historical Legacy1 Conscription and Canadian History, 1627–1939Part 2: The National Resources Mobilization Act and the Rise of the Big Army2 Mobilizing Canada: The Creation of the Thirty-Day Training System, 1939–403 Enshrining the NRMA: Compulsory Military Service, 1940–414 Creating the "Big Army": Conscription and Army Expansion, 1941–43Part 3: Canadian Conscripts and Their Experiences During the War5 Canada's Zombies, Part 1: A Statistical Portrait6 Canada's Zombies, Part 2: Life in UniformPart 4: The Fall of the Big Army7 "No stone … unturned": The Failure of Conscription and the Big Army, 1943–448 Revolt or Realization? The NRMA and the Conscription Crisis of 1944Part 5: The AftermathEpilogue: Conscription and Canadians in the Second World WarAppendix I: The National Resources Mobilization Act, 1940Archival Sources Consulted; Notes; IndexEndnotes

…by far the most complete account to date of conscription in Canada during the Second World War.- Brian Bertosa, Independent Researcher (Canadian Military History, Vol 27, Issue 2) Somewhat ironically given the book's title, Zombie Army is a very human story about the Canadian World War II experience. It deserves a prominent place in both libraries and university classrooms.- Adam Montgomery, Independent Scholar (Canadian Journal of History, Volume 52, Number 2) Since it illustrates a topic that could not have been written in earlier decades, there is much for the Second World War historian to learn from Zombie Army.- Robert Engen, Royal Military College of Canada (The Canadian Historical Review, Volume 98, Number 4) Zombie Army adds yet another important study to the large codex of Canadian Second World War literature, adding new life to a topic that has not been investigated in detail for many years.- Major Andrew B. Godefroy, CD, PhD, jrcsp, Army Lessons Learned Centre (Canadian Army Journal, 17.2) Byers provides us with an impeccably researched look at the daily grind of these soldiers, the way they were perceived by the local populations, their ethnic composition, or where and how they served.- François Charbonneau, University of Ottawa (The British Journal of Canadian Studies, Volume 31, Number 1) Zombie Army tells the whole arresting story with an even hand and smart commentary. The work is as compelling as the subject. - Holly Doan (Blacklock's Reporter, February 2017)