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Peacekeeper : the road to Sarajevo / Lewis Mackenzie.

MacKenzie, Lewis, 1940- (Author).

Summary:

"...describes how he created Sector Sarajevo, and with a 30-nation UN force set out to liberate the airport to receive desperately needed food and medical supplies. MacKenzie's outstanding and unorthodox leadership catapulted him to the status of an international celebrity, as he used the media -- "the only weapon I had" --to maximum advantage." --book jacket

Record details

ISBN: 9781550540987
ISBN: 155054098X
Physical Description: xvii, 345 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Vancouver : Douglas & McIntyre, c1993.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Map on lining papers.

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

A call from home -- Getting into peacekeeping the hard way -- Tan-less in Gaza -- Cyprus : first tour -- Cyprus -- Second tour -- Sluming in Saigon -- Back in the Middle East -- Cyprus : third tour -- Observing in Central America -- Rumours of Yugoslavia -- New York, New York -- On the ground -- Getting to know Sarajevo -- Prelude to war -- Anarchy takes over -- Damned if we do... -- The convoy incident -- Quicksand, Balkan-style -- Back to Belgrade -- Talking my way into command -- The road to Sarajevo -- End of a ceasefire -- From Peacekeeper to war criminal -- President Mitterand drops in -- A UN airport -- The Canadians are coming -- The hardest decision of my career -- Goodbye to Sarajevo -- The aftermath -- Whither UN peacekeeping?