Journalist and documentary film writer Merrily Weisbord is the author of < i> The Strangest Dream: Canadian Communists, The Spy Trials< /i> and the < i> Cold War< /i> , and co-author of < i> The Valour and The Horror: The Untold Story of Canadians in the Second World War< /i> . She lives in the Laurentian mountains north of Montreal.