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.
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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.
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