Mission with UNIFIL: An African Soldier's Reflection (1989) By Emmanuel A. Erskine

UNIFIL--hemmed into a small area of South Lebanon amid fiercely conflicting forces--is the UN's most difficult peace-keeping operation since the Congo, and General Erskine is recognised as having shown outstanding leadership and resilience as its commander. In this book he comments on his international service with great frankness. UNIFIL's day-to-day activities and hazards are described, together with his constant contacts with UN headquarters, with the Israeli army and government, with the late Major Saad Haddad's Israeli-protected 'DeFacto Forces', with the neighbouring Arab states and the PLO, and with the various countries from around the world that have participated in UNIFIL.