The Great War Remembered: World War I in Perspective

The First World War is the defining event of the 20th century. A cataclysm that claimed millions of lives and four empires and cast a dark shadow over succeeding decades, it is often seen as an unanswerable indictment of the Western civilization that fought it. But it should be understood as a necessary struggle for liberty under very difficult circumstances in which Canada found itself as a proud, free Western nation.