Gordon Martel is emeritus professor of history at the University of Northern British Columbia and adjunct professor at the University of Victoria. Martel is a specialist in the history of modern warfare and edited The Encyclopedia of War (2012). Martel was one of the founding editors of The International History Review, and is co-editor of the book series Seminar Studies in History and editor of the series Short Histories of Big Ideas.^[1]

In 2006, Martel revised and expanded James Joll's The Origins of the First World War.

• Imperial Diplomacy: Rosebery and the Failure of Foreign Policy. Mansell Publishing, 1986. ISBN 0720117348
• The Origins of the First World War. Longman, 1987. (Seminar Studies In History) ISBN 0582223822

• Modern Germany Reconsidered: 1870-1945. Routledge, 1992. (Editor)
• American Foreign Relations Reconsidered: 1890-1993. Routledge, 1994. (Editor)
• Origins of the Second World War Reconsidered: A.J.P. Taylor and the Historians. Routledge, 1999. (Editor)

• The Times and Appeasement: The Journals of A. L. Kennedy, 1932-1939. Cambridge University Press, 2001. (Camden Fifth Series) ISBN 0521793548
• The World War Two Reader. Routledge, 2004. (Editor) (Routledge Readers in History) ISBN 0415224020
• A Companion to Europe 1900-1945. Wiley-Blackwell, 2005. (Editor) (Blackwell Companions to European History) ISBN 1405106646
• The Origins of the First World War. Routledge, 2006. (With James Joll) (Origins Of Modern Wars) ISBN 0582423791
• A Companion to International History 1900-2001. Wiley-Blackwell, 2007. (Editor) (Blackwell Companions to History) ISBN 1405125748
• The Encyclopedia of War. Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. (Editor) ISBN 978-1-4051-9037-4
• The Month that Changed the World: July 1914. 2014. ISBN 978-0-19-966538-9
• Twentieth-Century War and Conflict: A Concise Encyclopedia. Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. (Editor)