I got this book a few years ago at a used book sale, since while I had a lot of books on the World Wars I had very few on Canada's part in them. The book itself is a collection of short true stories written by veterans about their experiences during the First and Second World Wars as well as the Korean War.
I don't have much good to say about this book. It was 300 pages of universally dull stories. Some of the stories would have been interesting, but they seemed like they were excerpts from larger accounts, and the reader is dropped into the middle of a story with no context and no way of knowing who is who. Many of the other stories are simply boring; anecdotes about war experiences far from the front that were no doubt amusing to the people involved but which have no real interest or relevance for the reader.
It's an easy read, and a few of the stories are somewhat intriguing, but in general I wouldn't recommend this book. There are far better sources of Canadian war history out there.
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