The Ghosts of Medak Pocket: The Story of Canada's Secret War Hardcover - 2004
by Carol Off
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In 1993, Canadian peacekeepers in Croatia were plunged into the most significant fighting Canada had seen since the Korean War. Their extraordinary heroism was covered up and forgotten. The ghosts of that battlefield have haunted them ever since.
Canadian peacekeepers in Medak Pocket, Croatia, found no peace to keep in September 1993. They engaged the forces of ethnic cleansing in a deadly firefight and drove them from the area under United Nations protection. The soldiers should have returned home as heroes. Instead, they arrived under a cloud of suspicion and silence.
In Medak Pocket, members of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry did exactly the job they were trained -- and ordered -- to do. When attacked by the Croat army they returned fire and fought back valiantly to protect Serbian civilians and to save the UN mandate in Croatia. Then they confronted the horrors of the offensive's aftermath -- the annihilation by the Croat army of Serbian villages. The Canadians searched for survivors. There were none.
The soldiers came home haunted by these atrocities, but in the wake of the Somalia affair, Canada had no time for soldiers' stories of the horrific compromises of battle -- the peacekeepers were silenced. In time, the dark secrets of Medak's horrors drove many of these soldiers to despair, to homelessness and even suicide.
Award-winning journalist Carol Off brings to life this decisive battle of the Canadian Forces. The Ghosts of Medak Pocket is the complete and untold story.
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- Title The Ghosts of Medak Pocket: The Story of Canada's Secret War
- Author Carol Off
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 310
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Random House Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Date 2004
- Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
- ISBN 9780679312932 / 0679312935
- Library of Congress subjects Canada - History, Canada - Histoire
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012494723
- Dewey Decimal Code 949.703
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