They were hardly more than kids when they left their little Saskatchewan town to enlist in Canada's war against fascism, fighting for democracy. Nearly one-fifth of the population of Dilke and its farming district enlisted during the Second World War, 101 in all, 62 of those went overseas. Wherever the demands of war sent them - Britain, North Africa, Italy, Northwest Europe - the loving of home sustained them through letters and parcels, cookies and cigarettes from the Dilke Active Service Comfort Club. They responded with grateful letters filled with the story of their new lives in distant lands. Based on those letters, supplemented by the memories of the surviving veterans, A Prairie Town Goes to War celebrates the contribution made by Dilke people at home and abroad to Canada's tremendous war effort.