TITLE:
Friendly fire : the untold story of the U.S. bombing that killed four Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan / Michael Friscolanti.
Publication Date:
2005-2006
Publication Information:
Toronto : J. Wiley & Sons Canada,
Physical Description:
587 p. : ill.
Summary:
It is the early morning of April 18, 2002, following the mayhem of a bomb attack on a section of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, outside Kandahar, Afghanistan. the Edmonton-based soldiers were conducting a live-fire training exercise at a former al-Qaeda compound when a U.S. fighter pilot mistook them for the enemy. At Tarnak Farm, A Company begins to board the trucks that will take them back to camp. Out of habit, Lt. Luft conducts a roll call of his platoon.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780470839188
