G. W. Stephen Brodsky  Gabriel Wilfrid Stephen Brodsky (born in Brantford, Ontario, Canada, 19 November 1933) is a research scholar and author in Literature of War and in Joseph Conrad studies. Stephen Brodsky joined the Canadian Army Reserves in 1949, aged fifteen, as a boy drummer. He subsequently served 1951–83 as a career soldier in regular army paratroop and conventional units of the Canadian Infantry. He saw operational tours of duty with NATO in West Germany, as a UN Peacekeeper in Cyprus and Kashmir, and as an instructor of officers. Brodsky holds a Master of Arts degree (University of Victoria, Canada) in Renaissance Literature and Drama, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree (University of York, UK) in Modern Literature with specialist studies in the works of Joseph Conrad. As a military professor on the academic faculty of Royal Roads Military College in Victoria, Canada, he taught military ethics and Literature, and subsequently was a civilian Special Lecturer on Literature of War. A former trustee of the Joseph Conrad Society of America (2012–14), Brodsky writes and publishes literary criticism and reviews.