Megamurder

London: George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd, 1966. First edition. First Published stated on verso. Hardcover. Very good/Good. xiii, [3], 288 p., 22 cm. Notes. Bibliography. Index. List of Abbreviations. DJ has some wear and soiling. The author claims that the key to survival is an awareness of what may be our alternatives for the future: disarmament, or the almost certain murder of millions in a nuclear Armageddon. This conclusion is based not on emotion or sentiment, or on a particular philosophical or political credo. It is founded on an instinct for self-preservation and built up through a hard-hitting, unsparing examination of the military facts of our time. From Wikipedia: "Eedson Louis Millard "Tommy" Burns, CC DSO OBE MC CD (June 17, 1897 September 13, 1985) was a Canadian Army Lieutenant General and diplomat....E.L.M. Burns was born on June 17, 1897 in Montreal, Quebec. His father was a militia staff officer, a member of the Corps of Guides. He served with the 17th Duke of York's Royal Canadian Hussars (17th D.Y.R.C.H.). He had risen to the rank of signal sergeant by 1913. [1] Tommy Burns, student # 1032 graduated from the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario in 1914. He joined the Royal Canadian Engineers, into which he was commissioned as a lieutenant in 1915. He served in Canada until March 1916 when he went overseas with the 3rd Canadian Division Signal Company which, was composed of engineers. He fought on the Western Front with the Royal Canadian Engineers from 1916 to 1918. He became a staff officer with the 9th Brigade in March 1917, dealing with supply and personnel. He became a "staff learner" and acted as liaison officer between forward battalions and brigade headquarters. He returned to Canada in 1919 and was stationed at St. John as an engineer officer. He attended the School of Military Engineering, Chatham, England, for eighteen months. He was an instructor at the RMC in Kingston, Ontario. He returned to Halifax and served on duty during the miners' strike at Glace Bay. He worked in the Survey Department in Ottawa. In 1924, he was appointed as an instructor at RMC in field engineering. He attended the Staff College at Quetta, British India and returned to Quebec, Canada in 1930. [1] In 1939, as a Lt-Col, he attended the Imperial Defence College in London, England. During World War II General Burns successively commanded the 4th Canadian Armoured Brigade, the 1st Canadian Infantry Division, the 5th Canadian (Armoured) Division (January 1944 to March 1944), and then finally the I Canadian Corps (March 1944 until November 1944). His performance as a corps-level commander proved to be controversial, despite the successes of the Canadian forces in the Italian Campaign, and so he was replaced as commander of I Canadian Corps by Lieutenant-General Charles Foulkes. He served as Deputy Minister of Veterans Affairs. He served as a President of the UNAC during the 1950s. He played a critical role in the Middle East peace process from 1954 to 1959. He was instrumental in developing UN peacekeeping. As Chief of Staff in 1954, United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) was designed to maintain the General Armistice Agreements until permanent peace could be formulated. He served as a Special Staff of the Truce Supervision Organization in Palestine (1954 56) with the Department of External Affairs and was thus nearby when the Suez Crisis of 1956 occurred. He led the UNEF from November 1956 to December 1959. He was Canada s principal disarmament negotiator from 1960-68. He held the chair of Strategic Studies at the Norman Paterson School for International Affairs, Carleton University from 1969-75. He wrote Between Arab and Israeli (1962); General Mud: memoirs of two World Wars (1970) and "Defense in the Nuclear Age" (1976)."