Résumé
Nobody really knows who these men are- men in black dropped off by a helicopter on the outskirts of a small Afghan village; wading through swamps in Croatia, intent on killing a war criminal; who ensure the protection of a Canadian General in Rwanda; who subdue hostage takers in Peru; and who prove, on-site, the Serbian disarmament lies told by President Milosevic. DENIS MORISSET was part of the initial sixteen-member Joint Task Force 2 (JTF 2) unit from 1993-2001. His extensive and rigorous training and hardships will make more than one reader realize that his being alive today is nothing short of a miracle. Seven members of his unit have not lived to tell the tale. Canada, for good reason, will never render justice to these anonymous combatants whose only medals of bravery are the numerous scars still visible on their bullet-proof vests. Unlike the British SAS and the United States’ Delta Force, this special Canadian intervention unit was, according to David Rudd of the Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies, trained “to infiltrate into dangerous areas behind enemy lines, look for key targets and take them out. They don't go out to arrest people. They don't go out there to hand out food parcels. They go out to kill targets.”
Auteur
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Denis Morisset was born on April 28, 1963 in Québec City and was adopted bya musician father and stay-at-home mother. He attended Holland ElementarySchool, Quebec High School and St. Lawrence College after which he enrolledin the Canadian Armed Forces with the intention of becoming a recruitingofficer. Mr. Morisset eventually became a non-commissioned officer workingin communications. Based at Valcartier, he was transferred to acounter-terrorist unit in Ottawa in the early 1990s where he was mandated asa specialist in radio communications and computers and selected to be amember of the special assault units. He took part in numerous missionsthroughout the world, but once his unit was dismantled, returned toValcartier. A civilian once again, Mr. Morisset held various differentpositions in the Quebec region. Denis Morisset is married and has threechildren. His book We Were Invincible, written in collaboration with ClaudeCoulombe and published in 2008, delivers an emotional and detailed accountof an exciting yet brutal life that the majority of us do not even knowexists.
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Claude Coulombe naît en mai 1959 à Québec. Après des études secondaires au Séminaire Saint-François, à Saint-Augustin, puis des études collégiales au campus Notre-Dame-de-Foy, il fait un bac en enseignement secondaire à l'Université Laval, avec une majeure en géographie. Immédiatement après, il décroche un emploi chez Provigo, puis devient représentant pour la compagnie Les soupes Campbell, poste qu'il occupe durant presque 30 ans. Marié et père de quatre enfants, il demeure à Cap-Rouge depuis plus de deux décennies. Entraîneur de soccer durant plusieurs étés, il œuvre aussi comme bénévole dans un parti politique. Nous étions invincibles, témoignage qu'il a recueilli auprès de Denis Morisset, est son premier ouvrage, publié par les Éditions JCL en avril 2008. Un premier roman, publié pendant l'été 2014 et intitulé J'ai vu mourir Kennedy, raconte une version fort méconnue de cet événement encore bien présent dans la mémoire collective nord-américaine.
Auteur(s) : Denis Morisset, Claude Coulombe
Caractéristiques
Auteur(s) : Denis Morisset, Claude Coulombe
Publication : 3 février 2012
Support(s) : Livre numérique eBook [ePub]
Protection(s) : Marquage social (ePub)
Taille(s) : 809 ko (ePub)
EAN13 Livre numérique eBook [ePub] : 9782894317983
