Jeffrey A. Keshen, Saints, Sinners, and Soldiers: Canada's Second World War.(Book review)

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...is evident here, for he encouraged his former graduate student to explore "Canada's Bad War." The result is an impressive, wide-ranging synthesis that details the complexity of life in wartime Canada. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources to explore an exhaustive list of issues, Saints, Sinners, and Soldiers sets a new standard.

Despite unprecedented government controls and media campaigns that failed to heal the divides over conscription, Keshen details how Canadians showed a remarkable patriotism during World War II. A country of eleven million people put over one million people in uniform, including over 50,000 women. Canadians paid for it with ever-increasing taxes and War Savings Certificates that were foisted on them in advertising campaigns, company payroll deductions, and by young Miss Canada volunteers. Even so, Keshen shows that Canadians across the country became wealthier than they had ever...

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