Blood and Daring

In Blood and Daring, lauded historian John Boyko tells the story of Canada's engagement in the American Civil War through the lens of six fascinating characters: a fugitive slave, a covetous American secretary of state, a New Brunswick woman who served in the Union army disguised as a man, a newspaperman turned political visionary, a master of Confederate spies operating out of a Toronto barroom, and the masterful politician who forged a nation under an imminent threat of invasion. With his gripping account, Boyko brilliantly produces a fresh understanding of the founding of one nation, and the redemption and revival of another in an era that continues to define them both.