Fifteen Days: Stories Of Bravery, Friendship, Life And Death From Inside The New Canadian Army
by Christie Blatchford /
2008 / English / EPUB
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Long before she made her first trip to Afghanistan as an embedded
reporter for
Long before she made her first trip to Afghanistan as an embedded
reporter forThe Globe and Mail
The Globe and Mail, Christie Blatchford was
already one of Canada’s most respected and eagerly read
journalists. Her vivid prose, her unmistakable voice, her ability
to connect emotionally with her subjects and readers, her hard-won
and hard-nosed skills as a reporter–these had already established
her as a household name. But with her many reports from
Afghanistan, and in dozens of interviews with the returned members
of the 1st Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry
and others back at home, she found the subject she was born to
tackle. Her reporting of the conflict and her deeply empathetic
observations of the men and women who wear the maple leaf are words
for the ages, fit to stand alongside the nation’s best writing on
war.
, Christie Blatchford was
already one of Canada’s most respected and eagerly read
journalists. Her vivid prose, her unmistakable voice, her ability
to connect emotionally with her subjects and readers, her hard-won
and hard-nosed skills as a reporter–these had already established
her as a household name. But with her many reports from
Afghanistan, and in dozens of interviews with the returned members
of the 1st Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry
and others back at home, she found the subject she was born to
tackle. Her reporting of the conflict and her deeply empathetic
observations of the men and women who wear the maple leaf are words
for the ages, fit to stand alongside the nation’s best writing on
war.
It is a testament to Christie Blatchford’s skills and integrity
that along with the admiration of her readers, she won the respect
and trust of the soldiers. They share breathtakingly honest
accounts of their desire to serve, their willingness to confront
fear and danger in the battlefield, their loyalty towards each
other and the heartbreak occasioned by the loss of one of their
own. Grounded in insights gained over the course of three trips to
Afghanistan in 2006, and drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews
not only with the servicemen and -women with whom she shared so
much, but with their commanders and family members as well,
Christie Blatchford creates a detailed, complex and deeply
affecting picture of military life in the twenty-first
century.
It is a testament to Christie Blatchford’s skills and integrity
that along with the admiration of her readers, she won the respect
and trust of the soldiers. They share breathtakingly honest
accounts of their desire to serve, their willingness to confront
fear and danger in the battlefield, their loyalty towards each
other and the heartbreak occasioned by the loss of one of their
own. Grounded in insights gained over the course of three trips to
Afghanistan in 2006, and drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews
not only with the servicemen and -women with whom she shared so
much, but with their commanders and family members as well,
Christie Blatchford creates a detailed, complex and deeply
affecting picture of military life in the twenty-first
century.From the Hardcover edition.
From the Hardcover edition.