Contact Charlie: The Canadian Army, the Taliban and the Battle for Afghanistan

In Contact Charlie, former National Post reporter and embedded journalist Chris Wattie offers stunning portrait of the series of battles that would eventually take the lives of several Canadian soldiers, including Captain Nichola Goddard, Canada's first female combat casualty. Based on Wattie’s own months in Afghanistan, as well as hundreds of post-tour interviews with the men and women on the ground, Contact Charlie is a rare piece of military writing, providing readers with a behind-the-scenes look at the stories that made headlines in the summer of 2006 — and continue to do so today.