Shadows of War, Faces of Peace: Canada's Peacekeepers

Raymond A. Jones is a history professor at Carleton University in
Ottawa.

This beautifully produced photo essay will be familiar to anyone who has
seen the Douglas Lavender television special of the same title. The
balance between photographic material and text is heavily weighted in
favor of the photography, so much so that Granatstein’s historical
introductions are almost indecently brief. Such as they are, these
historical snippets are accompanied by first-hand anecdotal accounts of
some of the service personnel involved, and it is these passages that
contribute most to the book. As a chronicle of difficult, dangerous, and
often politically impossible peacekeeping assignments that were
undertaken with extraordinary sangfroid, the book must be considered a
success. It is the story of what Canada’s peacekeepers have been
doing; the story of why has yet to be told.