For your tomorrow

By Melanie Murray

Subjects: Guerre en Afghānistān, 2001-, Afghan War, 2001-, Participation canadienne, Biography, Offizier, Officers, Canada, Battle casualties, Pertes, Canada. Forces armées canadiennes, Biographies, Officiers, Canadian, Familie, Canada. Canadian Armed Forces, Armed Forces, Gefallener, Canadian Participation, Casualties, Military participation, Afghanistankrieg

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.