War Junk

War Junk recounts the surprising history of leftover military munitions and supplies, revealing their complex political, economic, social, and environmental legacies in postwar Canada.

War Junk recounts the surprising history of leftover military munitions and supplies, revealing their complex political, economic, social, and environmental legacies in postwar Canada.

Alex Souchen is a historian specializing in warfare, society, and the environment in Canada, based in Kingston. He received his PhD from the University of Western Ontario and held a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies. He currently holds an Associated Medical Services Postdoctoral Fellowship at Trent University’s Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies.

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C. P Stacey Award, The Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada

Geoffrey Hayes, Department of History, University of Waterloo:
Alex Souchen’s fine work speaks to the enormous economic, political, as well as environmental consequences of wartime disposal. The breadth of this work is truly impressive.

Andrew Iarocci, Canadian Military History:

War Junk makes an entirely fresh contribution to a growing body of scholarship on Canada and war in the twentieth century.

Peter Neary, professor emeritus, history, University of Western Ontario:

This is a model monograph for connecting our military past to our environmental present. I salute War Junk as a work of Canadian history with global purpose.

Peter Thorsheim, professor, history, University of North Carolina at Charlotte:

With a sharp eye for detail, Alex Souchen has written an absolutely vital contribution to our understanding of the long shadows of war on the natural and built environment, political culture, and the economy.