Books by Pierre BertonNo one told the stories that make up Canadian history better than Pierre Berton. With a light and eager style, Pierre Berton captured Canadian personalities, landscapes and times with passion. His books are always good reading. Pierre Berton looks at how the four wars of the first half of the 1900s transformed Canada. Anecdotes and a storytelling style bring Canadian history to life. Pierre Berton captures the decade of the 1870s as he shows the political struggles of the brand new nation of Canada to create the world's longest railroad across empty country. The second part in the story of building the Canadian Pacific Railway which was key to the development of Canada as a nation. Pierre Berton recounts the extraordinary history of laying 2000 miles of rail in five years, and the characters who made it possible. Using research from journals and diaries, Pierre Berton tells the stories of Arctic exploration through the heroes and anti-heroes who led the expeditions. Pierre Berton captures what it was like to be one of the men in the mud at the Battle of Vimy Ridge. The horror of trench warfare and the greatness of victory at Vimy Ridge in many ways marked Canada's coming of age, and Pierre Berton makes that Canadian history easily accessible to all. Pierre Berton is at his most vibrant when writing about the fortune hunters of the Klondike Gold Rush. The stories of risk-takers and dreamers who braved the terrain and climate are essential to understanding Canadian and U.S. history. A magnificent natural wonder and a magnet for industry, adventurers, daredevils and honeymooners, Niagara Falls is an ideal subject for Pierre Berton's informal style of Canadian history. | 
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