Overview
THE UNCERTAIN COUNTRY
Prelude
THE AGE OF FAITH
Book One
THE WAR AGAINST THE BOERS
1. The New Imperialism
2. Soldiers of the Queen
3. Marching to Pretoria
4. Dinky Morrison's war
5. The fruits of victory
Interbellum I
THE LEGACY OF OPTIMISM
1. The boundary
2. The Western delirium
3. The New Woman
4. The tinpot navy
5. No truck with the Yankees
Book Two
THE WAR TO END ALL WARS
1. The monument
2. The crowds of August
3. The bloodletting
4. The home front
5. Canada comes of age
6. The manpower crisis
7. The Last Hundred Days
8. Beyond enduring
Interbellum II
THE GULLIBLE YEARS
1. Arthur Currie's Calvary
2. The royal jelly
3. War games
4. King's gambit
5. The Maple Leaf psychosis
6. The maske writers
7. Hard times
8. Peace at any price
Book Three
THE GLOBAL WAR
1. The phony war
2. Hong Kong
3. The displaced people
4. Don't you know there's a war on?
5. Dieppe
6. The American occupation
7. the lonely sea and the sky
8. The soft underbelly
9. The untried army
10. Not necessarily conscription
11. The drowned land
12. The offshoots of neglect
Interbellum III
NEW BEGINNINGS
1. Coming home
2. Mr. Brown
3. The big change
Book Four
KOREA: THE YO-YO WAR
1. The price of imprudence
2. An entirely new war
3. The ravaged land
4. "Be steady! Kill, and don't give way"
5. The static war
Coda
THE EDUCATION OF LESTER PEARSON
Author's Note
Infantry Units and Ranks
Bibliography
Index
PIERRE BERTON was one of Canada’s most popular and prolific
authors. From narrative histories and popular culture, to picture
and coffee table books to anthologies, to stories for children to
readable, historical works for youth, many of his fifty books are
Canadian classics.
Born in 1920 and raised in the Yukon, Pierre Berton worked in
Klondike mining camps during his university years. He spent four
years in the army, rising from private to captain/instructor at the
Royal Military College in Kingston. He spent his early newspaper
career in Vancouver, where at 21 he was the youngest city editor on
any Canadian daily. He wrote columns for and was editor of
Maclean’s magazine, appeared on CBC’s public affairs program
“Close-Up” and was a permanent fixture on “Front Page Challenge”
for 39 years. He was a columnist and editor for the Toronto Star
and was a writer and host of a series of CBC programs.
Pierre Berton received over 30 literary awards including the
Governor General’s Award for Creative Non-Fiction (three times),
the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, and the Gabrielle Léger
National Heritage Award. He received two Nellies for his work in
broadcasting, two National Newspaper awards and the National
History Society’s first award for “distinguished achievement in
popularizing Canadian history.” For his immense contribution to
Canadian literature and history, he was awarded more than a dozen
honourary degrees, was a member of the Newsman’s Hall of Fame, and
was a Companion of the Order of Canada.
Pierre Berton passed away in Toronto on November 30, 2004.
“Pierre Berton entertained me royally. . . . Berton uses newspaper
reports, memoirs, diaries and personal reminiscences with panache,
leading us over vast historical terrain through the eyes of
protagonists who were there.” -- Modris Eksteins, The Globe and
Mail
“Berton has written the Canadian story with style and grace. . . .
scintillating.” -- J. L. Granatstein
“A superb testament to Berton’s prowess as a writer and an
historian.” -- Calgary Herald
“Chock full of keen observation and interesting detail; a glance
back at war from one of the country’s most eminent popular
historians.” -- The London Free Press
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