personal narratives, canadian

A personal narrative of the war in Afghanistan and how it went dangerously wrong. Graeme Smith was a young reporter who, for several years, was the only Western journalist brave enough to live full-time in the perilous southern region. This account of modern warfare takes the reader into alleys, cockpits, and prisons. Smith was not simply embedded with the military. He operated independently and at great personal risk to report from inside the war. The heroes of his story are the translators, guides, and ordinary citizens who helped him find the truth and they provided the key to understanding why the West failed to deliver peace and democracy.

Captain Robert Semrau, a former Canadian infantry officer, went on military trial for allegedly killing a grievously wounded Taliban soldier in the field. His first-hand account of war on the ground in Afghanistan describes a country where it's sometimes hard to tell your friend from your enemy as your world is exploding before your eyes.

James Loney spent four months as a prisoner in Baghdad after he and three other men were kidnapped at gunpoint. Members of a peace mission with Christian Peacemaker Teams, their kidnapping was controversial and one of the most publicized. One of their group, an American, was murdered. The others were rescued by British and U.S. special forces.

Presents the memories of thirty-two American and Canadian men and women who served in the Korean War.