Key Canadian

While acknowledging that the dominant politicians among the Western Allies in the Second World War were Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt, Neville Thompson makes a case that the Canadian prime minister also played an important role.

W. L. Mackenzie King was an unlikely leader. He was introverted and cautious but remarkably successful. When he retired in 1948, he had been prime minister for twenty-one years altogether, a record for longevity in all