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As You Were

- The Tragedy at Valcartier
Af: Gerry Fostaty Engelsk Paperback

As You Were

- The Tragedy at Valcartier
Af: Gerry Fostaty 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.

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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.

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

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ISBN-13 9780864926487

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 198

Udgave

Længde 13mm

Bredde 152mm

Højde 229mm

Udg. Dato 1 apr 2011

Oplagsdato 1 apr 2011

Forlag Goose Lane Editions

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