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The savage war : the untold battles of Afghanistan / Murray Brewster.
Van Pelt Library DS371.412 .B73 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brewster, Murray.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Canada. Canadian Armed Forces.
- Afghan War, 2001-2021--Participation, Canadian.
- Afghan War, 2001-2021.
- Canada--Armed Forces--Afghanistan.
- Canada.
- Brewster, Murray.
- Afghanistan.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 344 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Mississauga, Ont. : J. Wiley & Sons Canada, [2011]
- Summary:
- The SavageWar: The Untold Battles of Afghanistan is a detailed, inside account of the conflict that has shackled nations. It is an unflinching, unvarnished analysis of Canada's role in the war, told in the first-person by someone-award-winning defence correspondent Murray Brewster-who not only sat in the trenches with soldiers, but also in the living room of 24 Sussex Drive with the prime minister. It is the first comprehensive account of the five most significant years of the war and the key moments which shaped history.
- As the country prepares to take on a new mission in Afghanistan, many Canadians are asking themselves what happened and what went wrong in Kandahar. The Savage War tackles those questions head on, taking the reader beyond the political spin and past the talking heads. The war's principal figures are captured in dozens of candid, off-camera moments. Stories of ordinary soldiers, the grit they exhibited, the sweat and blood they sacrificed, are told alongside the stories of Afghans, whose lives were torn asunder. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- We're not in Kansas anymore
- The gathering storm
- "What does sorry mean to me?"
- Perceptions
- Moral murk
- Fighting season
- Cut and run
- Operation Medusa
- "You have to spend to save"
- The road to Sangabad
- Warlords
- Worst days
- A flawed arrangement
- An unlawful enemy combatant
- Playing chicken
- An epitaph to good intentions
- "Almost normal, but not quite"
- "Feel free to exit at your leisure"
- Losing hearts and minds
- The Devil's workshop
- Shoot the messenger
- 3D - deny, deflect and divide
- The Green Hell
- Getting out of Dodge
- A dangerous life.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781118115930
- 1118115937
- OCLC:
- 726822496
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