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  • Clearing the Way: Combat Engineers in Kandahar

    by Mark Gasparotto ...
    Clearing the Way: Combat Engineers in Kandahar is the story of the men and women of 23 Field Squadron who served with the 1st Royal Canadian Regiment Battle Group in Kandahar in 2006. Through the eyes of thirteen Squadron members relive the early days of the war in Kandahar and the coming of age of a group of soldiers recorded in graphic detail. The reader experiences the large scale battles with ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Seven Days in the Life of a Canadian Soldier in Afghanistan

    by Ryan Flavelle ...
    In 2008, Ryan Flavelle, a reservist in the Canadian Army and a student at the University of Calgary, volunteered to serve in Afghanistan. For seven months, twenty-four-year-old Flavelle, a signaller attached to the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, endured the extreme heat, the long hours and the occasional absurdity of life as a Canadian soldier in this new war so far from home. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • One Soldier

    A Canadian Soldier's Fight Against the Islamic State

    by Dillon Hillier, Russell Hillier ...
    The instant national bestseller. Dillon Hillier, a corporal with the Princess Patricias Canadian Light Infantry, returned home from a tour in Afghanistan and started up a normal life. But when ISIS insurgents began attacking local populations in Iraq and elsewhere, Hillier, a long-time soldier, felt he had to join in the action, so he sold his truck, lied to his parents about where he was going ... Read more

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  • Combat Mission Kandahar

    The Canadian Experience in Afghanistan

    by T. Robert Fowler ...
    Seven soldiers. Seven military specialties. Seven stories.What was it like to serve in the combat mission in Afghanistan? Journalists’ reports from 2006 to 2011 could only give brief glimpses of the reality on the ground for Canadian soldiers. This book reveals the full story of what happened to seven soldiers, ranking from corporal to captain, who were deployed during Operation ATHENA, Phase 2. ... Read more

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  • The Longest Kill

    The Story of Maverick 41, One of the World's Greatest Snipers

    by Craig Harrison ...
    Powerful and compelling, Craig Harrison's The Longest Kill is a must-read for fans of military memoirs .It takes a tough mindset to be a successful sniper, to be able to dig in for days on your own as you wait for your target, to stay calm on a battlefield when you yourself have become the target the enemy most want to take out. Craig Harrison has what it takes and in November 2009 in Afghanistan, ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Outside the Wire

    The War in Afghanistan in the Words of Its Participants

    by Kevin Patterson, Jane Warren ...
    A remarkable collection of first-hand accounts written by soldiers, doctors and aid workers on the front lines of Canada’s war in Afghanistan.Visceral, intimate and captivating in ways no other telling could be, Outside the Wire features nearly two dozen stories by Canadians on the front lines in Afghanistan, including the previously unpublished letters home of Captain Nichola Goddard, the first ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • No Lack of Courage

    Operation Medusa, Afghanistan

    by Colonel Bernd Horn ...
    No Lack of Courage is the story of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's Operation Medusa, the largely Canadian action in Afghanistan from 1 to 17 September 2006, to dislodge a heavily entrenched Taliban force in the Pashmul district of Afghanistans Kandahar Province. At stake, according to senior Afghan politicians and NATO military commanders, was nothing less than the very existence of the ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ashley's War

    The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield

    by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon ...
    The New York Times–bestselling account of an elite team of female soldiers is "compelling. . . . In battle as in life, these women refuse to quit" ( Christian Science Monitor).In 2010, the Army created Cultural Support Teams, a secret pilot program to insert women alongside Special Operations soldiers battling in Afghanistan. Their presence had a calming effect on enemy households, but more ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Scarce Heard Amid the Guns

    An Inside Look at Canadian Peacekeeping

    by Lieutenant-Colonel John Conrad ...
    In the Service of Peace simple words that adorn the obverse of every United Nations medal, yet behind this eloquence lurks violence and an unheralded heroism invisible to an often misunderstood quarter of Canadas military history. The Canadian contribution to peacekeeping is enormous but ensnared in a lethal mythology that has seen it abandoned to popular folklore. From the early and intrinsic ... Read more

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  • What the Thunder Said

    Reflections of a Canadian Officer in Kandahar

    by Lieutenant-Colonel John Conrad ...
    By every principle of war, every shred of military logic, logistics support to Canada's Task Force Orion in Afghanistan should have collapsed in July 2006. There are few countries that offer a greater challenge to logistics than Afghanistan, and yet Canadian soldiers lived through an enormous test on this deadly international stage - a monumental accomplishment. Canadian combat operations were ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • On Guard For Thee: Canadian Peacekeeping Missions

    by Matthew Bin ...
    On Guard For Thee: Canadian Peacekeeping Missions is a collection of stories about Canadian men and women who have served overseas on UN or NATO missions from the end of the Cold War to the present day. The stories are collected directly from the individual veterans. Contributors represent virtually every major Canadian mission, including Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Cambodia, Somalia, and Afghanistan ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Apache Wrath: Riding the Dragon

    War in Afghanistan, #4

    by Steve Stone ...
    Series Book 4 - War in Afghanistan
    Flying at 120 knots with the unique roar from its aerodynamic rotors and twin turbines the AH64 Apache is the world's most fearsome attack helicopter its pilots refer to it as 'Riding the Dragon'. The Taliban would more often than not flee rather than suffer its 30mm cannon, 2.75 rockets or Hellfire missiles. Some of the Apache systems are truly amazing such as being able to read a car number ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus