SOURCE: A review of The Invasion of Canada, Volume One: 1812–13, in Books in Canada, Vol. 9, No. 7, August-September, 1980, pp. 7-8.

In the following review, Stacey addresses a number of shortcomings in Berton's The Invasion of Canada, claiming that "as a history of the war [it leaves much to be desired."]

Pierre Berton does not tell us just why he has undertaken to write what is clearly going to be quite a long book on the War of 1812. One more book, one might say; for there is a large literature on this war and historians and near-historians have produced a good many books and articles about it in recent years. Inevitably, Berton is threshing old wheat and he has not been able to find much that is new to say. But there is a certain perennial interest in this strange conflict among North Americans, and he and his publishers evidently...