{"product_id":"9780735278004","title":"The Devil's Trick","description":"\u003cb\u003eForty-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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough the lens of six remarkable people, some well-known, others obscure, bestselling historian John Boyko recounts Canada's often-overlooked involvement in that conflict as peacemaker, combatant, and provider of weapons and sanctuary.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWhen \u003cb\u003eBrigadier General Sherwood Lett \u003c\/b\u003earrived 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 \u003cb\u003eBlair Seaborn\u003c\/b\u003e 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. \u003cb\u003eClaire Culhane\u003c\/b\u003e worked in a Canadian hospital in Vietnam and then returned home to implore Canadians to stop supporting what she deemed an immoral war. \u003cb\u003eJoe Erickson\u003c\/b\u003e was among 30,000 young Americans who changed Canada by evading the draft and heading north; \u003cb\u003eDoug Carey\u003c\/b\u003e was one of the 20,000 Canadians who enlisted with the American forces to serve in Vietnam. \u003cb\u003eRebecca Trinh\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThrough 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.","brand":"John Boyko (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Knopf Canada |  Hardback  |  2021-04-13","offer_id":44151543398655,"sku":"9780735278004","price":32.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/products\/BNCImageAPI_5a52fa50-9fe4-4dc3-bc76-a419a58832aa.jpg?v=1633505754","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9780735278004","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}