The Invasion of Canada

The Invasion of Canada:  1812–1813 is a 1980 book by Pierre Berton.

The book and its sequel
The book is an account of the first year of the War of 1812 and the events leading up to it.  Berton wrote that this history is neither military nor political.  "This is, rather, a social history of the war, the first to be written by a Canadian."   Details of the book were drawn from memoirs and diaries of common soldiers and commanding officers, as well as official military correspondence.

The story of the war, to its conclusion, was continued in the follow-up book, Flames Across the Border:  The Canadian-American Tragedy, 1813–1814 (1981).

See also
 Family Compact

Notes

Further reading
"War of 1812, the", in Benét's Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature (1991), New York:  HarperCollins.

Category:1980 non-fiction books
Category:20th-century history books
Category:History books about the War of 1812
Category:Books by Pierre Berton
Category:War of 1812 books