Fred Doucette

Empty Casing

A Soldier's Memoir of Sarajevo Under Siege

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When Canadian soldier Fred Doucette went to Bosnia-Herzegovina as a peacekeeper in 1995, he had a premonition that this tour of duty would be different from anything he had previously experienced. And it was. Doucette's tour quickly became an impossible task that took a huge toll on both the residents and his fellow peacekeepers. Trapped in thier beloved city, thousands of Sarajevans, perished, and yet, Doucette found a home in the midst of this hell. Billeted with a Bosnian family, he was offered a window into a Sarajevo that few outsiders saw. When the war ended, Doucette returned to Canada to face another battle, this one characterized by… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-926685-67-0
EAN: 9781926685670
Produktnummer: 21827774
Verlag: Douglas and McIntyre (2013) Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Seitenangabe: 256 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 2'666 KB

Über den Autor

Fred Doucette joined the Canadian Armed Forces in the late 1960s, served in Cyprus in the 1970s and '80s, and was deployed to Bosnia in the 1990s. He returned to Canada from his last mission in 1999, was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder in 2000 and was released from the military in 2002. He now works with the Department of National Defence's Operational Stress Injury Social Support program to provide peer support to Armed Forces personnel and veterans suffering from PTSD. He is married to Janice Wiper, his wife of 35 years, and lives in Fredericton, New Brunswick.