Pierre Berton's latest retrospective is Marching as to War (Doubleday $45), about "all the wars and all the unnecessary battles in which Canadian youth was squandered from 1899 to 1953,"; and about the subsequent era of peacekeeping. Berton sees Canada as a victimized adolescent during its formative and turbulent times. He recalls 20th century sacrifices of Canadians during the Boer War on the Africa veldt, the 'ravaged meadows of Flanders' during World War I, 'the forbidding spine of Italy' during World War II and 'the conical hills of Korea'.

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[BCBW WINTER 2001]