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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Carroll, Michael K. (Michael Kiernan). Pearson's peacekeepers. Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2009 (DLC) 2009517202 |
Named Person: | Lester B Pearson; Lester B Pearson; Lester B Pearson; Lester B Pearson |
Material Type: | Biography, Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Michael K Carroll |
ISBN: | 9780774815833 0774815833 9780774815826 0774815825 |
OCLC Number: | 647909354 |
Reproduction Notes: | Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
Description: | 1 online resource (xxii, 229 pages) : illustrations, map, portraits |
Details: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
Contents: | 1. Prelude to Suez -- 2. The steep hill of Suez -- 3. Blessed are the peacekeepers ... even the Canadians -- 4. Let the fun(ding) being : financing UNEF, 1956-63 -- 5. Ad hoc ad infinitum : financing UNEF, 1963-67 -- 6. Peace by piece : UNEF on the ground -- 7. The forgotten army -- 8. Goodbye, farewell, and amen : the withdrawal of UNEF, May-June 1967. |
Series Title: | desLibris., Books collection. |
Responsibility: | Michael K. Carroll ; foreword by Robert Bothwell. |
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"Pearson's Peacekeepers brilliantly sums up the significance of the UNEF experience, which was both a failure and a wonderful achievement. Carroll's book is a major original contribution to the field. He shows that, although a so-called classic example of peacekeeping, UNEF has far more relevance to current Canadian operations in response to international crises than is generally thought. - W.A.B. Douglas, official historian of the Canadian Armed Forces and author of the historical report for the Department of National Defence, in 1973, on the evacuation of the UNEF" Read more...


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- Pearson, Lester B.
- United Nations Emergency Force.
- Peacekeeping forces -- Egypt -- History -- 20th century.
- Peacekeeping forces, Canadian -- History -- 20th century.
- Egypt -- History -- Intervention, 1956.
- Canada -- Foreign relations -- 1945-
- Pearson, Lester B., -- 1897-1972.
- Force d'urgence des Nations Unies.
- Canada -- Relations extérieures -- 1945-
- Égypte -- Histoire -- 1956 (Intervention étrangère)
- Forces de maintien de la paix canadiennes -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
- Diplomatic relations.
- Peacekeeping forces.
- Peacekeeping forces, Canadian.
- Canada.
- Egypt.
- Vereinte Nationen -- Emergency Force
- Internationale Politik
- Friedenspolitik
- Suezkrise
- Kanada
- Canada -- Relations exterieures -- 1945-
- Egypte -- Histoire -- 1956 (Intervention etrangere)