Embattled Nation explores Canada's tense wartime election of 1917. Amidst the drama of the First World War, Canada's most divisive election ever raised pivotal questions about Canada's place in the war and the world. This book examines the issues, people, and events behind one of the most important elections in Canada's history.
"Embattled Nation is a timely re-examination of the hard-fought and bitter election campaign that shaped modern Canada by two exceptional historians, who have spent their careers immersed in the Laurier-Borden era. Presented in breezy and accessible prose, their frenzied account is the first sustained study of Canada's first wartime election, and taps an extensive range of new private and public s
Dr. Greg Donaghy
"In this work of deep scholarship and gripping narrative, Dutil and MacKenzie provide new insight into the political battles that raged throughout the country as Canadian soldiers were fighting and dying in Flanders fields."
