J.L. Granatstein

Canada’s military couldn’t have carried on without the controversial policy

Canada’s war finally ended in Mons, Belgium, the scene of the first skirmishes between British and German troops in 1914.

The price of the campaign to finish off the Germans was steep for Canada: 1,544 officers and 29,262 soldiers killed, wounded or captured

It took the combined efforts of infantry, artillery, armour and air power to overcome the formidable obstacle that was Canal du Nord

Canadians knew that fighting past the Drocourt-Quéant Line would be costly. But they won an important victory in their renowned Hundred Days march to the end of the war.

The last hundred days of the First World War started on Aug. 8, 1918. One hundred years later, J.L. Granatstein chronicles those arduous final battles.

Only crack shots among the ’knights of the air’ survived battle against better equipped and more experienced German pilots

The Battle of Vimy Ridge is commonly known as a fight that brought Canadians together. But did it?

The battle was a defining victory for the Canadian Corps, but not a significant setback to the German defence strategy

Canadians proved themselves, but the battle’s key planners and many staff-trained officers were British—and many British-born infantrymen helped take the ridge, too