Montreal at War chronicles the experiences of civilians, soldiers, and returned veterans in Montreal during the First World War.

Terry Copp is a Canadian military historian, director emeritus of the Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies, and a professor emeritus at Wilfrid Laurier University. He is an award-winning author of more than twenty books on Canada’s role in the World Wars and an influential advocate for military history in both military and civilian education.
Maavara Alexander :

Alexander Maavara is a former graduate student at Wilfrid Laurier University and is currently a copyeditor and researcher.

"Terry Copp has given us a magnificent history of a city at war, not from the hindsight-skewed view of a historian a hundred years removed but from the perspective of the citizens who lived it. This is how history should be done."

Geoffrey Hayes, Professor of History, University of Waterloo:

"Terry Copp’s detailed study of wartime Montreal challenges many established ‘truths’ about Canada in the First World War. The war both united and divided Montrealers. But little-known strikes, hockey rivalries, and municipal tragedies also reveal the wartime city’s complex fault lines. A remarkable work."

Carl Bouchard, Professor of History, University of Montreal:

"Terry Copp brilliantly combines the two fields of interest that defined his fruitful career—social and military history—to immerse readers in the urban emotions of Montreal and the muddy trenches of Europe. Montreal at War is an important addition to a flourishing body of literature on the Great War in Canada."