Marc Milner is Director of the Brigadier Milton F. Gregg, V.C., Centre for the Study of War and Society at the University of New Brunswick. A native of Sackville, N.B., Dr. Milner earned his doctorate at the University of New Brunswick in 1983. From 1983 to 1986, Dr. Milner was a historian with the Directorate of History, Department of National Defence, Ottawa, where he wrote portions of the R.C.A.F.'s official history and the first narrative of the recent official history of the Royal Canadian Navy. He joined the History Department at U.N.B. in 1986. Since then, he has served as director of U.N.B.'s Military and Strategic Studies Programme and chair of its History Department for six years. Dr. Milner is best known for his work on naval history, including North Atlantic Run: The Royal Canadian Navy and the Battle for the Convoys (1985); The U-Boat Hunters: The Royal Canadian Navy and the Offensive against Germany's Submarines (1995); Corvettes of the Royal Canadian Navy (co-authored with Ken Macpherson, 1993); a novel, Incident at North Point (1998); a popular history, HMCS Sackville 1940-1985 (1998, for the Canadian Naval Memorial Trust); Battle of the Atlantic (2003), which won the Charles P. Stacey Prize for the best book on military history in Canada for 2003-04; and Canada's Navy: The First Century (1999). Dr. Milner writes a regular column on Canadian naval history for Legion Magazine, and the second (updated) edition of Canada's Navy: The First Century was published just in time for the naval centennial.