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  • The Devil's Trick

  • How Canada Fought the Vietnam War
  • Auteur(s): John Boyko
  • Narrateur(s): John Boyko
  • Durée: 7 h et 36 min
  • 4,7 out of 5 stars (14 évaluations)

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The Devil's Trick

Auteur(s): John Boyko
Narrateur(s): John Boyko
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Forty-five years after the fall of Saigon, John Boyko brings to light the little-known story of Canada's involvement in the American War in Vietnam.

Through the lens of six remarkable people, some well-known, others obscure, best-selling historian John Boyko recounts Canada's often-overlooked involvement in that conflict as peacemaker, combatant, and provider of weapons and sanctuary.

When Brigadier General Sherwood Lett arrived in Vietnam over a decade before American troops, he and the Canadians under his command risked their lives trying to enforce an unstable peace while questioning whether they were merely handmaidens to a new war. As American battleships steamed across the Pacific, Canadian diplomat Blair Seaborn was meeting secretly in Hanoi with North Vietnam’s prime minister; if American leaders accepted his roadmap to peace, those ships could be turned around before war began. Claire Culhane worked in a Canadian hospital in Vietnam and then returned home to implore Canadians to stop supporting what she deemed an immoral war. Joe Erickson was among 30,000 young Americans who changed Canada by evading the draft and heading north; Doug Carey was one of the 20,000 Canadians who enlisted with the American forces to serve in Vietnam. Rebecca Trinh fled Saigon with her husband and young daughters, joining the waves of desperate Indochinese refugees, thousands of whom were to forge new lives in Canada.

Through these wide-ranging and fascinating accounts, Boyko exposes what he calls the Devil’s wiliest trick: convincing leaders that war is desirable, persuading the public that it is acceptable, and telling combatants that the deeds they carry out and the horrors they experience are normal, or at least necessary. In uncovering Canada’s side of the story, Boyko reveals the many secret and forgotten ways that Canada not only fought the war but was forever shaped by its lessons and lies.

©2021 John Boyko (P)2021 Knopf Canada
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“In his trademark style, Boyko delivers another fast-paced narrative, exploring Canada’s contentious and contested involvement in the Vietnam War.... In this revealing book, Boyko lays bare the lies and lessons of a foreign war that bled into Canadian society, and which still remain relevant.” (Tim Cook, author of The Fight for History)

“[A] compelling study.... John Boyko is an impressive historian with seven well-received books to his credit.... [A]mbitious and far-reaching ... [The Devil’s Trick] skillfully unfolds a complex narrative.... I came away not only impressed by the power of the narratives he creates but by his sensitive handling of issues that continue to affect us.... [A] powerful, thought-provoking book.” (The Peterborough Examiner)

“Among the wealth of Vietnam War analysis, John Boyko’s The Devil’s Trick: How Canada Fought the Vietnam War deserves a respected place.... This book has many strengths. And, if a Canadian historian, reporter, Asia watcher, or diplomat in training ever needed a primer on placing the war in its time, Boyko’s first thousand words do the trick.” (Ted Barris, Canada’s History)

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Having grown up in this timeline watching Walter Cronkite news , and body count on tv on lies told to the people this story clears up so much. So don’t fear the illuminati.

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