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"Conrad rightly points out that while we have made much of places like Vimy and Ypres and Juno Beach we are only now beginning to understand what Canadian soldiers did in places like Kapyong Reservoir in the Korean War and in Rwanda, Cambodia, and Bosnia."
--The Owen-Sound Sun TimesConrad rightly points out that while we have much of places like Vimy and Ypres and Juno Beach we are only now beginning to understand what Canadian soldiers did in places like Kapyong Reservoir in the Korean war and in Rwanda, Cambodia, and Bosnia.
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Scarce Heard Amid the Guns tears the curtain of myth away, providing a rare, visceral inner perspective of the various Canadian peacekeeping missions.
In the Service of Peace simple words that adorn the obverse of every United Nations medal, yet behind this eloquence lurks violence and an unheralded heroism invisible to an often misunderstood quarter of Canadas military history. The Canadian contribution to peacekeeping is enormous but ensnared in a lethal mythology that has seen it abandoned to popular folklore. From the early and intrinsic Canadian contribution to the U.N. Emergency Force in 1956, through the blur of the frenetic 1990s down to the anemic level of contemporary Canadian participation, it is difficult to make sense of the wide circumference of this significant legacy. Until now.
Scarce Heard Amid the Guns provides an incisive perspective on the various Canadian missions: their omnipresent doubt and un-telegraphed terrors. This insiders guided tour of our military at war in peace introduces us to some of the men and women who carried the day ordinary Canadians who did extraordinary things and continue to bear the scars of forgotten fields in their bones.
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- VerlagNatural Heritage Books
- Erscheinungsdatum2011
- ISBN 10 1554889812
- ISBN 13 9781554889815
- EinbandTapa blanda
- SpracheEnglisch
- Anzahl der Seiten328
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Dundurn, Toronto, 2011
ISBN 10: 1554889812
ISBN 13: 9781554889815
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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good +. B/W Photographs (illustrator). First Edition. SUBTITLED : ` An Inside Look at Canadian Peacekeeping '. Page 09 in the foreword quotes Dag Hammarskjold as saying : ` Peacekeeping is not a soldier's job, bit only a soldier can do it'. Read more about : Colonel Focs, Corporal Randy Vout, Rwanda, Yugo watchers, tower of skulls, UNAMIR, General Dallaire, Major Paul Kagame, Bijella, Serbo Croat, Golan Heights, and UN Disengagement Observer Force. 327 pages - INDEX at back - will take you to Cyprus, Berlin, Rwanda, Haiti, Yemen, Congo. and Kosovo - among others. A small number of b/w photographs complement text. Author has flat signed the title page. He also inscribed the half-title. Cond : Paper wrapper is white with red lettering. Front cover photo shows Colonel Frank Melish delivering aid near Belet Huen, Somalia. Volume is bright, tight, sqaure and clean. Name of p/o on first page. Lower front corners dinged ( page 1 -66). Else collectible !! Quote (p. 162) : " Midway through the tour an east coast company made a generous donation to the Canadian contingent in Cambodia by donating a sea container full of Schooner beer. The gesture was appreciated, but as June gave way to July the beer began to take on a slightly tangy ._._._. ." Size: 8vo. Signed by Author(s). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 011761
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