Canadian Author Stanley Redman has spent his life documenting what many levels of government in Canada, both past and more recent, have tried to conceal.

Through colossal blundering on the part of the top-brass at the end of World War II, thousands of Canadian Navy personnel, vented their frustration on the business center of the City of Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Redman was there and experienced the mayhem that the authorities would deny to this day. Total breakdown of discipline resulted in universal public drunkness fuelled by the looting of liquor stores, desecration of cemeteries and a whole corybantic gamut of civil abuse.

There is a serious lesson in these pages about the responsibilities of individuals and governments in power; the psychology of the mob; and the Canadian psyche itself that, more often than not in recent history, has needed shaking out of its complacency. This well documented and illustrated book will do that!

A Prairie Town Goes to War celebrates the contribution made by Dilke people at home and abroad to Canada's tremendous war effort.