AMER INVASION OF CANADA PA

How cold a nation of eight million fail to subdue a struggling British colony of 300,000? In this remarkable account of the war's first year, Pierre Berton transforms history into an engrossing narrative that reads like a fast-paced novel. Drawing on memoirs, diaries, and official dispatches, the author gets inside the characters who fought the war- the common soldiers, the generals, the bureau-crats and the profiteers, the traitors, and the loyalists. This is a gripping account of a fascinatingly complex war that shaped the boundaries of America as we know them today.

Plerre Berton is the internationally renowned bestselling author of fifty books including Vimy, Klondike, and The Last Spike, and the recipient of over thirty literary awards including the Governor General's Award for Creative Non-Fiction (three times). Berton was born in 1920 and was raised in the Yukon, working in Klondike mining camps. He was a columnist and editor for the Toronto Star and was a writer and host of a series of CBC programs. He holds more than a dozen honorary degrees, is a member of the Newsman's Hall of Fame, and is a Companion of the Order of Canada. Pierre Berton passed away in 2004.