The Patrol

The national bestseller and instant classic about Canada's war in Afghanistan

Longlisted for the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction

In 2008, Ryan Flavelle, a reservist in the Canadian Army and a student at the University of Calgary, volunteered to serve in Afghanistan. For seven months, twenty-four-year-old Flavelle, a signaller attached to the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, endured the extreme heat, the long hours and the occasional absurdit…