Boosters and Barkers Financing Canada's Involvement in the First World War

"There has been an explosion of material on Canada and the war over the past decade, but the subject of finance, critical as it is, seems to either bore or intimidate most writers and scholars. Roberts, decided to take on this knotty problem, and we're all the winners for it."

"Moving through each of the war loans with forensic care, Roberts gives readers an inside-the-vault examination of how Canada accomplished the near-impossible feat of raising hundreds of millions of dollars to pay for munitions, clothing, food, and soldiers' wages."