A soldier first
Subtitle: bullets, bureaucrats and the politics of war
By: Rick Hillier
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 509
ISBN-13: 9781554684915; 9781554684922
Subjects: 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
Description: 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 ...
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements; title: Breakfast with the PM; title: Newfoundland Days; title: Basic Training; title: Between a Rock and a Hard Place; title: Tanks, but No Tanks; title: Striking It Rich in Fort Knox; title: Germany; title: Decade of Darkness; title: Bosnia; title: A Flood of Affection; title: Thawing the Ice; title: Fort Hood, Texas; title: Back to Bosnia; title: Friendly Fire; title: Four Stars; title: Kabul; title: Chief of the Defence Staff; title: First Year on the Job; title: Recruiting the Nation; title: Defensive Manoeuvres; title: Making Canada Small; title: Highway of Heroes; title: Final Days; title: Time to go.