For your tomorrow
Subtitle: the way of an unlikely soldier
By: Melanie Murray
Publisher: Random House Canada
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780307359780
Subjects: Biography; Officers; Biographies; Officiers; Afghan War, 2001-; Canadian Participation; Casualties; Guerre en Afghānistān, 2001-; Participation canadienne; Pertes; Armed Forces; Battle casualties; Military participation; Canadian; Afghanistankrieg; Offizier; Gefallener; Familie; Canada. Canadian Armed Forces; Canada; Canada. Forces armées canadiennes
Description: "What compels a young, affluent Canadian to put on a uniform and risk his life for the controversial mission in Afghanistan? And how does his family cope with his loss when he is killed there? Jeff Francis was a thirty-year-old doctoral candidate and student of Buddhism when he decided that joining the armed forces was the best way to make a difference in the world. In elegant, spare prose that captures both the hardness of war and the nuances of a grieving family, Melanie Murray - Captain Francis's aunt - uses the lens of his life and death to give Canada's war in Afghanistan the perceptive, literary treatment its soldiers, families and citizens deserve."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references: p. 244-251.

Issued also in electronic format.