Ordeal by Fire : Canada, 1910-1945 / Ralph Allen, Thomas B. Costain.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allen, Ralph, 1913-1966, author.

Contributor:

Costain, Thomas B. (Thomas Bertram), 1885-1965, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Canada.

Law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (363 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Ordeal by Fire

Place of Publication:

Garden City : Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1961.

Summary:

"It is to author Allen's credit that ... he steers so steady a course, covering the first stages of economic development, its hardships and hijinks, the land booms and market crashes, the general strike at Winnipeg, the rise of conservatives and isolationism, the Northern Railway, the Naval Question, the Army at Ypres and Verdun, at Normandy and Dieppe, along with the celebrated exploits of the RCAF. There are, too, trenchant portraits of Mackenzie King and Bennett, explosive ones of Sam Hughes, explanations of Canada's ambivalence with the League of Nations, her relations via America during the Depression when Roosevelt shone more dazzlingly there than in his own country, and considerations of the Chanak affair and the cultural growth of the Left. All in all, a notable and natty survey and a fine fifth volume in the Doubleday Canadian Series."-Kirkus Review.

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