{"product_id":"9780864926487","title":"As You Were","description":"\u003cp\u003eSUMMER, 1974 — Six teenaged boys died and fifty-four were injured in an explosion on a Canadian Forces Base in Valcartier, Quebec. A live grenade inadvertently made its way into a box of dud ammunition, and its pin was pulled during a lecture on explosives safety. One hundred and forty boys survived, each isolated in their trauma, yet expected to carry on with their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThirty-four years later, Gerry Fostaty, who was an 18-year-old sergeant that summer and one of the first on the scene after the explosion, received an unexpected email from his former sergeant-major, triggering a journey into memory, a quest for a true picture of what had happened on that day. In \u003ci\u003eAs You Were\u003c\/i\u003e, Fostaty pieces together the story of how a series of preventable mistakes led to tragedy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe only full account of an event that received minor attention at the time, \u003ci\u003eAs You Were\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of a normal day turned horrific, how duty, responsibility, and honour make ordinary people take extraordinary measures, and how an embarrassed military did their best to ignore this devastating incident.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goose Lane Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65419940069725,"sku":null,"price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/3893\/2573\/files\/753_43d47e0b-e919-487d-8475-8412d1b896ed.jpg?v=1790251472","url":"https:\/\/shop.gazellebookservices.co.uk\/products\/9780864926487","provider":"Gazelle Book Services","version":"1.0","type":"link"}