For your tomorrow

By Melanie Murray

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

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.