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Eyewitness to chaos : personal accounts of the intervention in Haiti, 1994 / Walter E. Kretchik.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kretchik, Walter E. (Walter Edward), 1954- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Army--Officers--Interviews.
- United States.
- United States. Army--History--20th century.
- United Nations Mission in Haiti.
- United Nations--Armed Forces--Haiti.
- United Nations.
- Soldiers--United States--Interviews.
- Soldiers.
- Haiti--History--American intervention, 1994-1995--Personal narratives.
- Haiti.
- United States--Relations--Haiti.
- Haiti--Relations--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (238 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln, Nebraska : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- In September 1994 a large U.S.invasion force converged on Haiti. Years of diplomatic efforts, secret government planning, and military rehearsals on the parts of the United States and the United Nations had failed to restore to office Haiti's democratically elected, junta-deposed president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and now invasion was imminent.
- Contents:
- Haitian culture and military power
- Preventive diplomacy and military intervention
- Planning a military intervention
- Conducting a military intervention
- Intervention under the Blue Beret
- Aftermath
- Appendix: Oral history interviewees.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61234-868-8
- 1-61234-866-1
- OCLC:
- 957696696
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