A Tale of Two Nations Series
A Tale of Two Nations: Canada, U.S. and WW1 is the story of two North American countries that found themselves embroiled in an European war – one by circumstance and one by choice. The journalism history series is published in five parts and as a complete edition.
1914
Slavic nationalist Gavrilo Princip assassinates Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, and his wife Sophie in Sarajevo, Bosnia. Soon war clouds envelop Europe.
1915
Canadian troops endures a trial by fire at the Second Battle of Ypres. Meanwhile, Americans are rocked by the torpedoing of the Lusitania, an ocean liner that, like the Titanic, was thought to be unsinkable.
1916
The Battle of the Somme drags on in Europe, but the battle receives sparse coverage in Canada. American voters go to the polls in a close election that pits Democrats against Republicans and Republicans against Democrats and Progressives.
1917
Canadian troops easily take their objective at the Battle of Vimy Ridge, a battle later called Canada’s coming-of-age. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson ran for re-election on the pledge that he kept the U.S. out the war. However, as submarine warfare increases, Wilson decides now is the time to enter the conflict.
1918
The war ends, prompting spontaneous and boisterous parties to erupt in cities throughout the United States and Canada. Joy follows the deadliest month of the Spanish flu pandemic, an event that would kill more Americans and Canadians than the war.
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Omnibus Editions
A Tale of Two Nations: Canada, U.S. and WWI
Using contemporary newspapers as its main sources, A Tale of Two Nations weaves together a story that does not have the benefit of hindsight and analysis. It’s chaotic, incomplete and often inaccurate, but it does paint a picture of war as our ancestors would have known it.
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