Outside the Wire: The War in Afghanistan in the Words of Its Participants

by Kevin Patterson and Jane Warren

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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the Wire features nearly two dozen stories by Canadians on the front lines in Afghanistan, including the previously unpublished letters home of Captain Nichola Goddard, the first female NATO soldier killed in combat, and an introductory reflection by Roméo Dallaire.

Collected here are stories of battle and the more subtle engagements of this little-understood war: the tearful farewells; the shock of immersion into...Read more
  • ISBN10 0307356310
  • ISBN13 9780307356314
  • Publish Date 5 August 2008
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country CA
  • Imprint Vintage Canada