SCARCE HEARD AMID THE GUNS BELOW, An Inside Look at Canadian Peacekeeping (signed copy)
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL JOHN CONRAD
Language: English
Published by Dundurn Press, Toronto, 2011
- First Edition
- Signed
- Softcover
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Trade paperback with glossy photo covers; Clean sound unmarked copy except for where author has signed on title page; 327 pages with index; A history of Canadian Forces action under the 'Blue Flag' of both UN & NATO peacekeeping missions from 1956 to Afghanistan. Written by an Army Reserve Officer with 28 years service.
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- Title
- SCARCE HEARD AMID THE GUNS BELOW, An Inside Look at Canadian Peacekeeping (signed copy)
- Author
- LIEUTENANT-COLONEL JOHN CONRAD
- Publisher
- Dundurn Press, Toronto
- Publication year
- 2011
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1554889812
- ISBN 13
- 9781554889815
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
- Military/War
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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About the Author
John Conrad is a retired Canadian army officer with over three decades in uniform. He is the author of What the Thunder Said and the critically acclaimed Among the Walking Wounded. He presently works as a senior executive in the Alberta government and lives in Hastings Lake.
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