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Fifteen Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death from Inside the New Canadian Army

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Long before she made her first go back and forth to Afghanistan as an embedded reporter for The Globe and Mail, Christie Blatchford used to be already one in all 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 used to be born to tackle. Her reporting of the conflict and her deeply empathetic observations of the women and men 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 at the side of the admiration of her readers, she won the respect and consider 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 every other and the heartbreak occasioned by the lack of one in all 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 such a lot, but with their commanders and members of the family as well, Christie Blatchford creates a detailed, complex and deeply affecting picture of military life in the twenty-first century.

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