The only history of conscription in Canada, by one of Canada's finest historians, now re-issued with a new introduction ...

Compulsory military service has always been a controversial issue, and nowhere more so than in Canada. Award-winning historian J.L Granatstein considers the thorny questions it raises: "Is it worthwhile to impose conscription if by so doing you threaten to destroy the nation and the national unity that the men at the front are presumably fighting to preserve?"

This new edition of Granatstein's classic account begins with a reflection about why he...