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		Canada. Canadian Armed Forces -- Biography
		Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Personal narratives, Canadian.
		Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Participation, Canadian.
		Kosovo War, 1998-1999 -- Personal narratives, Canadian.
		Snipers -- Canada -- Biography.
		Disabled veterans -- Canada -- Biography
		Amputees -- Canada -- Biography.
		City council members -- Ontario -- Ottawa -- Biography.

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		Mitic, Jody.
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		Canada. Canadian Armed Forces -- Biography
		Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Personal narratives, Canadian.
		Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Participation, Canadian.
		Kosovo War, 1998-1999 -- Personal narratives, Canadian.
		Snipers -- Canada -- Biography.
		Disabled veterans -- Canada -- Biography
		Amputees -- Canada -- Biography.
		City council members -- Ontario -- Ottawa -- Biography.


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Unflinching : the making of a Canadian sniper / Jody Mitic ; with Perry Lefko.

by Mitic, Jody.

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Simon and Schuster Canada, 2015.

Canada. Canadian Armed Forces -- Biography

Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Personal narratives, Canadian.

Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Participation, Canadian.

Kosovo War, 1998-1999 -- Personal narratives, Canadian.

Snipers -- Canada -- Biography.

Disabled veterans -- Canada -- Biography

Amputees -- Canada -- Biography.

City council members -- Ontario -- Ottawa -- Biography.

9781476795119 (2016 pbk.)

9781476795102 (hc.)

2016 paperback editions have a foreword by General Rick Hillier.

"A raw, candid, and engrossing memoir following Jody Mitic's journey into the Canadian military, through sniper training, and firefights in Afghanistan, culminating on the fateful night when he stepped on a landmine and lost both of his legs below the knees. "Afghanistan, 2007. I was a Master Corporal, part of an elite sniper team sent on a mission to flush out Taliban in an Afghan village. I had just turned thirty, after three tours of duty overseas. I’d been shot at by mortars, eyed the enemy through my scope, survived through stealth and stamina. I’d been training for war my entire adult life. But nothing prepared me for what happened next." A twenty-year veteran of the Canadian Armed Forces, Jody Mitic served on three active tours of duty over the course of seven years. As a sniper, he secured strongholds from rooftops, engaged in perilous ground combat, and joined classified night operations to sniff out the enemy. In his memoir, Jody reveals he was born to be a soldier. An aimless teen in search of belonging, he found brotherhood and discipline in army life. In sniper school, he learned the mindset of a hunter-killer and developed the hyper-sensory precision of a human predator. On the warfront, Jody experienced first-hand the valour and the chaos, the battle scars and the pain of war -- including the tragic losses of fellow soldiers wounded or killed in action. After losing both of his legs below the knees, Jody was forced to confront the loss of the only identity he had ever known -- that of a soldier. Determined to be of service to his family and to his country, he refused to let injury defeat him. Within three years after the explosion, he was not only walking again, he was running. By 2013, he was a star on the reality TV show Amazing Race. And in 2014, Jody reinvented himself yet again, winning a seat as a city councillor for Ottawa"--Provided by publisher.

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