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 Canada’s 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 insider’s 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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- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- 355.3/570971
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Table of Contents
- COVER 1
- Half-Title 2
- Title 4
- Copyright 5
- Dedication 6
- Table of Contents 8
- Foreword 10
- Acknowledgements 16
- Introduction 18
- PART: I 26
- Map of Cambodia 27
- Chapter 1: THE SECRET HARBOUR 28
- Chapter 2: A BOUQUET OF SHARDS: THE CANADIAN PEACEKEEPING MOSAIC 44
- Chapter 3: A DANGEROUS MYTHOLOGY 52
- PART: II 68
- Chapter 4: THE CLASSICS AND WHY WE LOVE THEM (1956 TO 1973) 70
- Chapter 5: THE GOLDEN AGE: CYPRUS TO THE BERLIN WALL (1973 TO 1988) 96
- Chapter 6: THE GHOSTS OF AFRICA: THE BEGINNING OF A RISING TIDE 118
- PART: III 136
- Chapter 7: FIVE DAYS IN MAY: A FREE AND FAIR ELECTION FOR CAMBODIA 138
- Map of Croatia 169
- Chapter 8: THE LAND WHERE UP IS DOWN: CANADIANS IN THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA 170
- Map of Rwanda 197
- Chapter 9: ROCK BOTTOM IN RWANDA (MISSIONS FROM 1989 TO 2005) 198
- Chapter 10: NON-UNITED NATIONS PEACEKEEPING 218
- Chapter 11: THINGS UNSEEN: SAVING THE LIPIZZANERS 244
- Chapter 12: CANADA AND UN PEACEKEEPING TODAY 250
- Chapter 13: COMING HOME 266
- Epilogue: SUNDOWN AT THE CAMBODIANA 282
- NOTES 294
- Appendix: CANADIAN PEACEKEEPING MISSIONS 312
- BIBLIOGRAPHY 316
- INDEX 320
- BY THE SAME AUTHOR 329
- BACK COVER 330
