Preface
Permissions
Introduction
Section One: Conscription
1. "To win, at any cost": Politics and Manpower Policies,
1917
2. Conscription in the Great War
3. The Conservative Party and Conscription in the Second World
War
4. The York South By-Election of February 9, 1942: A Turning Point
in Canadian Politics
5. The "Hard" Obligations of Citizenship: The Second World War in
Canada
6. Conscription and My Politics
Section Two: Diplomacy
7. "A Self-Evident National Duty": Canadian Foreign Policy,
1935–1939 (with Robert Bothwell)
8. Mackenzie King and Canada at Ogdensburg, August 1940
9. The Hyde Park Declaration 1941: Origins and
Significance (with R.D. Cuff)
10. The Man Who Wasn't There: Mackenzie King, Canada, and the
Atlantic Charter
11. Happily on the Margins: Mackenzie King and Canada at the Quebec
Conferences
Section Three: Politics
12. Financing the Liberal Party, 1935–1945
13. King and His Cabinet: The War Years
14. The Evacuation of the Japanese Canadians, 1942: A Realist
Critique of the Received Version (with Gregory A. Johnson)
15. Arming the Nation: Canada's Industrial War Effort,
1939–1945
Section Four: Reflections
16. A Half-Century On: The Veterans' Experience
17. "What Is to Be Done?": The Future of Canadian Second World War
History
18. Thirty Years in the Trenches: A Military Historian's Report on
the War between Teaching and Research
J.L. Granatstein is the former director and CEO of the Canadian War Museum and a distinguished research professor emeritus of history. He is an award-winning author of more than sixty books on Canadian political and military history, the recipient of numerous honorary degrees, and an Officer of the Order of Canada.
"J.L. Granatstein is a national treasure. For over sixty years,
this soldier, professor, museum director, public intellectual, and
professional provocateur has been exploring and revealing the hard
truths behind Canada's national history. This collection of his
essays stirs the historical imagination and is essential reading
for all Canadians who want to understand war and politics in all
their complexity. In his unflinching style and pursuit of the past
as it was, and not how we wish it were, Granatstein has revealed
not only how Canadians struggled in times of conflict and turmoil,
but also how those decisions continue to resonate and shape
contemporary Canada."--Tim Cook, author of Vimy: The Battle and the
Legend and The Fight for History: 75 Years of Forgetting,
Remembering, and Remaking Canada's Second World War
"This collection traces the sustained work over the past fifty
years of the foremost historian of Canadian politics in the era of
the two world wars. It is a wonderful journey of discovery into the
new sources and analytical frameworks with which he reshaped our
understanding of this crucial era. Lucid prose - Granatstein's
trademark - brings to life the remarkable people and the burning
issues that profoundly influenced the country and brought it onto
the world stage at a time of international upheaval and violence."
--Roger Sarty, Department of History, Wilfrid Laurier University
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