Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction by Larry Hannant

Chapter 1. Early Years

Chapter 2. The 1930s

Chapter 3. The War 

Chapter 4. Postwar Years

Chapter 5. Letters from China, with a foreword by Monica Whyte

Appendix

Notes

Index

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About the Author

Larry Hannant is a Canadian historian specializing intwentieth-century political dissent. He is the author of TheInfernal Machine: Investigating the Loyalty of Canada’sCitizens and the editor of The Politics of Passion: NormanBethune’s Writing and Art, which won the Robert S. KennyPrize in Left/Labour Studies. He also researched and co-wrote afeature-length documentary film on the Doukhobors, The SpiritWrestlers, which was broadcast on History Television. He currentlyteaches at Camosun College and the University of Victoria.