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The Patrol: Seven Days In The Life Of A Canadian Soldier In Afghanistan

Ryan Flavelle
4.19/5 (194 ratings)
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Nothing can prepare a person for the reality of bloody, concussive warfare. . . . Those who like war are aptly named warriors. Some, like me, are fated never to be warriors, as we are more afraid of war than fascinated by it. But I have the consolation that I have walked with warriors and know what kind of men and women they are. I will never be a warrior, but I have known war." (The Patrol)

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. Flavelle spent much of his time at a Canadian Forward Operating Base (FOB), living among his fellow soldiers and occasionally going outside the wire. For one seven-day period, Flavelle went into Taliban country, always walking in the footsteps of the man ahead of him, meeting Afghans and watching behind every mud wall for a sign of an enemy combatant.

The Patrol is a gritty, boots-on-the-ground memoir of a soldier's experience in the Canadian Forces in the twenty-first century. In the tradition of Farley Mowat's The Regiment and James Jones' The Thin Red Line, this book isn't merely about the guns and the glory--it is about why we fight, why men and women choose such a dangerous and demanding job and what their lives are like when they find themselves back in our ordinary world.
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
251 pages
Publication:
2011
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
Edition:
First Edition
Language:
ISBN10:
1443407178
ISBN13:
9781443407175
kindle Asin:
B005JSMN6W

The Patrol: Seven Days In The Life Of A Canadian Soldier In Afghanistan

Ryan Flavelle
4.19/5 (194 ratings)
Read Download
Nothing can prepare a person for the reality of bloody, concussive warfare. . . . Those who like war are aptly named warriors. Some, like me, are fated never to be warriors, as we are more afraid of war than fascinated by it. But I have the consolation that I have walked with warriors and know what kind of men and women they are. I will never be a warrior, but I have known war." (The Patrol)

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. Flavelle spent much of his time at a Canadian Forward Operating Base (FOB), living among his fellow soldiers and occasionally going outside the wire. For one seven-day period, Flavelle went into Taliban country, always walking in the footsteps of the man ahead of him, meeting Afghans and watching behind every mud wall for a sign of an enemy combatant.

The Patrol is a gritty, boots-on-the-ground memoir of a soldier's experience in the Canadian Forces in the twenty-first century. In the tradition of Farley Mowat's The Regiment and James Jones' The Thin Red Line, this book isn't merely about the guns and the glory--it is about why we fight, why men and women choose such a dangerous and demanding job and what their lives are like when they find themselves back in our ordinary world.
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
251 pages
Publication:
2011
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
Edition:
First Edition
Language:
ISBN10:
1443407178
ISBN13:
9781443407175
kindle Asin:
B005JSMN6W

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