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As You Were
- The Tragedy at Valcartier
Engelsk Paperback
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As You Were
- The Tragedy at Valcartier
Engelsk Paperback

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SUMMER, 1974 — Six teenaged boys died and fifty-four were injured in an explosion on a Canadian Forces Base in Valcartier, Quebec. A live grenade inadvertently made its way into a box of dud ammunition, and its pin was pulled during a lecture on explosives safety. One hundred and forty boys survived, each isolated in their trauma, yet expected to carry on with their lives.

Thirty-four years later, Gerry Fostaty, who was an 18-year-old sergeant that summer and one of the first on the scene after the explosion, received an unexpected email from his former sergeant-major, triggering a journey into memory, a quest for a true picture of what had happened on that day. In As You Were, Fostaty pieces together the story of how a series of preventable mistakes led to tragedy.

The only full account of an event that received minor attention at the time, As You Were is the story of a normal day turned horrific, how duty, responsibility, and honour make ordinary people take extraordinary measures, and how an embarrassed military did their best to ignore this devastating incident.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
198
ISBN-13:
9780864926487
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0864926480
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
1 apr 2011
Længde:
13mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
Goose Lane Editions
Oplagsdato:
1 apr 2011
Forfatter(e):
Kategori sammenhænge