USED MARCHING AS TO WAR – CANADA’S TURBULENT YEARS

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Used “Marching as to War – Canada’s Turbulent Years”, by Pierre Berton

Canada’s 20th century can be divided roughly into two halves.  All the wars and all the unnecessary battles in which Canadian youth was squandered belong to the first – from the autumn of 1899 to the summer of 1953.  From the mid-1950s on, Canada has concerned itself not with war but with pace.

In this monumental work, Pierre Berton brings Canadian history to life once again, relying on a host of sources, including newspaper accounts and first-hand reports, to tell the story of these four wars through the eyes of the privates in the trenches, the generals at the front, and the politicians and families back home. By profiling the interwar years, Berton traces how one war led to the next, and how the country was changed in the process. Illustrated with maps and line drawings, Marching as to War describes how the experience of war helped to bind Canada together as a nation and chronicles the transformation of Canada’s dependence upon Great Britain and its slow emergence as an independent nation caught in a love-hate relationship with the United States.

Features:

• 632 pages total
• Hardcopy