Volume III of this outstanding history of Canada's defence and foreign policy is a study of Ottawa's thinking and decisions during the closing years of the Second World War and the opening years of the cold war. Eayrs presents both the events and the personalities who shaped these events.

This study provides an absorbing account of historical developments and current practices in the making of Canada's foreign policy.

In Defence of Canada: Appeasement and Rearmament is a companion and sequel to Volume I and is meant to demonstrate that the military and diplomatic components of national security policy are, and ought to be, indissolubly combined, in study and analysis, as well as in formulation and execution.

With incisive critiques of the moral turpitude and inefficiency of the diplomatic profession, this volume discusses the 'October crisis' in Quebec and other recent events, incorporating the author's selection of his recent writings on the irrelevance, or deliquescence, of modern diplomacy.