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bullets, bureaucrats and the politics of war

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An edition of A soldier first (2009)

A soldier first

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In the summer of 2008, General Rick Hillier retired as Chief of the Defence staff of the Canadian Forces. You could almost hear the sigh of relief in Ottawa as Canada's most popular, and most controversial, military leader since the second World War left a role in which he'd been as frank, unpredictable and resolutely apolitical as any of his predecessors ...

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HarperCollins
Language
English
Pages
509

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Canada, Generals, Biographies, Généraux, Politique militaire, Krijgsmacht, Canada. Canadian Armed Forces, Canada. Chef d'état-major de la défense, Military policy, Canada. Forces armées canadiennes, Canada. Chief of the Defence Staff, Biography, Canada, defenses, Canada, canadian armed forces, Generals, biography, Canada, biography, Military biography, Canada, history, military
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Rick Hillier (1955-)
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Canada

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Breakfast with the PM
Newfoundland Days
Basic Training
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Tanks, but No Tanks
Striking It Rich in Fort Knox
Germany
Decade of Darkness
Bosnia
A Flood of Affection
Thawing the Ice
Fort Hood, Texas
Back to Bosnia
Friendly Fire
Four Stars
Kabul
Chief of the Defence Staff
First Year on the Job
Recruiting the Nation
Defensive Manoeuvres
Making Canada Small
Highway of Heroes
Final Days
Time to go.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
355.0092
Library of Congress
U55.H485 A3 2009

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Pagination
509 pages, [24] pages of plates :
Number of pages
509

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Open Library
OL26456244M
Internet Archive
soldierfirstbull0000hill
ISBN 10
1554684919, 1554684927
ISBN 13
9781554684915, 9781554684922
OCLC/WorldCat
426221895

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