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From the Canadian in charge of the joint military comand in Kandahar Province in Afghanistan, this is the real on-the-ground story of one of NATO's bloodiest, most decisive and misunderstood operations: The battle of Panjwayi, the defining moment of "Operation Medusa."In 2006, David Fraser was the Canadian general in charge of the joint military command in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. Like the troops under his command, he was in no way ready for what happened on Friday, September 1st of that year. He had been woken the night before by his intelligence officers who informed him that the Taliban were amassing on all fronts for an all-out battle. The NATO Alliance was about to engage the enemy in the greatest and bloodiest battle of their 70-year history. And they were grossly outnumbered. At first the facts of Operation Medusa were deliberately withheld as classified, then muddied by imprecise and isolated personal accounts, exaggerated by rumour, misstated by...

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Author

Major General (Ret'd) David Fraser and Brian Hanington

Publisher

McClelland & Stewart, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780771039300

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Military History, Humanities

Rating

4.3 / 5 (83 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14