{"product_id":"9781554889822","title":"Scarce Heard Amid the Guns: An Inside Look at Canadian Peacekeeping","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eScarce Heard Amid the Guns\u003c\/em\u003e tears the curtain of myth away, providing a rare, visceral inner perspective of the various Canadian peacekeeping missions. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eScarce Heard Amid the Guns\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Dundurn Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176185610480,"sku":"9781554889822","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781554889822_p0.jpg?v=1763785972","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781554889822","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}