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PART I.—PREPARATION FOR WAR

• Canada Before the War 259
• Building a War Machine 264
• Departure of First Contingent 267
• The Steady Stream of Recruits 270
• The Conscription Act 272
• The "Princess Pat" Regiment 285
• Canada's Huge Forestry Corps 287
• The Canadian Railway Corps 291
• Other Branches of the Service 295
• Administration of Canada's War Establishment 302

PART II.—CANADA AT THE FRONT

• The Canadians in Flanders—Neuve Chapelle—Their Brave Part in the Second Battle of Ypres—The Princess Patricias 303
• Battle of Festubert—The Canadians Fight for the Orchard—Valor of the Second Brigade and Fourth Battalion—Givenchy 322
• The Second and Third Canadian Divisions—Battles of St. Eloi and Sanctuary Wood—Victory After Defeat 339
• Vimy Ridge and Passchendaele 357
• Holding the Vimy Sector 367
• Holding Lens and Arras 372
• The Amiens Battle of August, 1918 383
• The Attack Against the Hindenburg Line 389
• Capture of Bourlon Wood and Cambrai 396
• Capture of Valenciennes and Mons 406

PART III.—CANADA AT HOME

• Shoulder to Shoulder with the Empire 423

PART IV.—CANADIAN WAR INDUSTRIES

• Behind the Guns at Home 430
• From Trenches to Farms 438
• Keeping Their Home Fires Burning 443
• Remaking Men 448
• Service to the Troops 456
• Succor and Solace 463

• Chronology of the World War 469
• Index 481

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

• Signing the Peace Treaty in the Hall of Mirrors, June 28, 1919