The monk and his message

the long version

In this iconoclastic study of historians and their works over the past two thousand years, George Woodcock sets out to examine and undermine the conventions by which much history has been written. There is a lesson here for Canadians in our time of national crisis. As the peoples of Eastern Europe have taught us, we have nothing to lose in the echoing streets but our fears; and we have a world of our own to gain. - Back cover.