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Hi Everyone: I am writing a historical, nonfiction book on Canadians serving in Afghanistan. I have previously published two books on the military and this third book is very similar to my last one. It is a collection of the letters, emails and blogs of Soldiers serving in Afghanistan. I DO NOT...

I think I jumped the gun on that, it may be that you need to be confimed already with the Regimental Assoc. for the address of the Association in Vancouver you can go to the PPCLI website and then look in the association pages. Contact thelma and tell her you want to come but just heard about it...

Hello all: With heavy heart I will be attending a ceremony in Vancouver tomorrow to mark the passing of the torch from the capable and loved hands of Lady Patricia, Colonel in Chief of the Princess Patricia's. I look forward to meeting with Lady Patricia again, and it is a great honour for our...

thanks for all the great comments and references to great material, lots of stuff to read now! As pointed out in an earlier post, all it awaits is the release of Russian archives. Even those sources must on occasion be questioned though, case in point FYI below... I researched an American...

I am currently rereading Stalingrad by Anthony Beevor, having just finished his work on Vasily Grossman. "A Writer at War. Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945". Because he wrote for the Army and was subject to Party and NKVD scrutiny in both his life and writing, his notes and journals...

We used many wonderful groups in the US to contact soldiers, MarineParents.org was a big one and it was wives in many cases who said "Honey, let's do this book thing ." Soldiers being soldiers go along with orders... BTW I am eager to get female soldiers in the book. I think that however it...

I do agree with your observations on privacy, many soldiers don't want to hang it all out there, but some do. I work with each soldier individually to select the letters which best tell the story of his or her tour, that avoids any embarrassment straight away! I don't change a word of the...

Hi all: I am a writer and it has occurred to me that we are in danger of losing some of our most valuable sources of military history, namely the letters that soldiers write home from the battlefield. I recently published a collection of war letters from Americans fighting in Iraq and...

Hi all: I am writing a book on Canadians in Afghanistan. It is a collection of letters, emails and blogs from Canadians serving (or have served) in Afghanistan. It is titled "Letters from the Front Lines - Canada in Afghanistan" and each chapter features the letters (emails or blog) from a...

Hi all: I used several blogs in my last book (Letters from the Frontlines) and some of the bloggers in the previous posts are well known to me. Sgt Chris Missick is in the book and Neil Prakash (Armorgeddon) was intended to be in it until he got a book deal of his own! Armorgeddon was the BEST...