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Outside the Wire: The War in Afghanistan in the Words of Its Participants | 
 enlarge | Authors: Kevin Patterson, Jane Warren
Publisher: Random House Canada
Category: Book
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 928
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 1.1
ISBN: 0307356264
EAN: 9780307356260
Publication Date: December 11, 2007
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Great Perspectives, very well worht it October 24, 2008
John Hubbard (Mississauga, Ontario)
This is a very well put together collection of personal accounts, letters home and blogs about peoples expirences, what each person was moved by. Honest, revealing and educational to me. Good first person type persepctives that give you a unique view and I think comes as close to putting you "on the ground" there wihtout actually being there. A good read and highly suggested.
BUY THIS BOOK!!!! September 26, 2008
Tiffany Wagar (Ottawa, Ontario)
You must read this book and have others read it too. As a military wife I was interested in reading some books about where my husband is serving. This book really opened my eyes to the way of life of our soldiers serving in Afghanistan. The quality of writing from the people who submitted pieces are excellent. Nothing packs a bigger punch then reading first hand accounts from those who were on the ground. You will absolutely not be disappointed with this book!
A look at what our Canadian soldiers are seeing! April 18, 2008
Michael C. Boivin (Ontario, Canada)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is an excellent book which relates the stories from Canadian soldiers, and other brave, selfless Canadians who volunteer to go to Afghanistan and try to change things and help. Thank you for giving this book so we (canadians) can have some appreciation for what is being done overseas!!
Human faces in Afghanistan...17 tales from the Kandahar war zone February 26, 2008
R. Nicholson
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
A truly beautiful book!
This is a collection of 17 unconnected stories from the Afghanistan theatre; as told from letters, diaries, memoirs etc. of Canadian personnel (soldiers, nurses, carpenters, doctors etc.). Some of these people did not make it back to Canada alive. Some stories are recent, other cover areas back as far a 2001.
There is something that transcends normal story telling here; mainly because the stories told are true ones. The quality of writing makes you feel the anxiety of leaving home, smell of the garbage and sewers in Kabul, feel the heat and boredom of an Afghan summer and appreciate the fear and tension of firefights in a hostile country (especially at night). Truly writing at its best.
Three things really stuck with me about this book...
1.)how virtually all participants of this book felt so much empathy towards the Afghan people and their plight.
2.)the chapters were arranged in such a way as to make you aware that some of the contributors to this book actually knew and spoke about some of the other writers (whose letters where also used in this book), who had already died or would be killed later on. I find it hard to express in words just how much this moved me when I came across one of these few occurrences.
3.)and finally, this book could easily be described as a set of 'snapshots' of how the war has changed (for the worst) over the last couple of years. And although, to a man, the writers of this book feel that they are doing some good over there, you begin to realize that with the paltry number of forces (NATO) that have been sent there, they have almost no chance of making any substantial difference in this tribal based, sectarian country.
Conclusions:
1.)A book that will make you stop reading and think.
2.)This is a book about war participants that have the qualities of good, caring human beings; who demonstrate all the emotional strengths and frailties that go with this distinctive attribute.
3.)The quality of writing, the telling of their tales will absolutely leave you stunned; but for all the right reasons.
5 Stars...more if I could
R.Nicholson
more accurate then "15 days " December 31, 2007
jim duggan (canada)
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
this book was way better then 15 days ..... not only was it not second hand information like christie's book ... but it was taken directly from us soldiers and the stories are wrote by the soldiers themselves not by a reporter .... great book and this book should be read by canadians before any other book on afghanistan because it truly is from the soldiers personal accounts of what we did over there ..
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