Canada at War

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.

• Preface Permissions IntroductionSection One: Conscription1. "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 PoliticsSection Two: Diplomacy7. "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 ConferencesSection Three: Politics12. 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, 1939–1945Section 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