The Information Front

J.L. Granatstein:
A well-researched and well-thought out study of how the Army’s public relations apparatus functioned during the greatest war in Canadian history … Balzer’s is a most interesting book, a fine academic study that deserves a wide readership.

Chris Dornan, Director of the Arthur Kroeger College of Public Affairs at Carleton University, who writes extensively on the Canadian news media:

An immensely readable and very illuminating history. Others have focused on the battlefield correspondents, but Balzer shows us that what Canadians knew about their army’s actions during the Second World War was shaped, in large measure, by the military public relations apparatus.

J.L. Granatstein, author of Canada’s Army: Waging War and Keeping the Peace:
This is an important and original history of the Canadian Army’s overseas public relations during the Second World War that is based on impressive research in Canadian, US, and UK primary sources.