White School Black Memories

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>AN INFANTRYMAN'S UNVARNISHED TRUTH</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The fight for the White School during Operation MEDUSA was the fiercest combat the Canadian Army had seen since the Korean War. Chief Warrant Officer John G. Barnes was in the thick of it as the Company Sergeant Major of Charles Company 1st Battalion The Royal Canadian Regiment.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Barnes' extremely frank memoir is a tale of courage loss and eventual redemption that reads like someone telling you their story across the kitchen table. Above all else this book tells the unvarnished truth from a senior non-commissoned officer's point of view.</span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>OP MEDUSA IS PART OF OUR HISTORY AS A NATION AKIN TO NORMANDY PACHINO AND HONG KONG IN TERMS OF COURAGE SERVICE AND TOUGHNESS.</em></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>- General Rick Hillier OC CMM ONL MSC CD</span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>IMPOSSIBLE TO PUT DOWN...THIS IS A MUST-READ ACCOUNT OF THIS GENERATION'S VIMY RIDGE.</em></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>- Brigadier-General Rob Delaney OMM CD</span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>JOHN BARNES IS ONE OF THOSE RARE GENTLEMEN WHO MAKES YOU A BETTER PERSON JUST FOR HAVING KNOWN HIM.</em></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>- Lieutenant-Colonel Matthew Sprague MSM CD</span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>JOHN BARNES IS A LEGEND IN THE ROYAL CANADIAN REGIMENT. IF YOU WANT ONE BOOK TO UNDERSTAND THE METTLE OF CANADA'S SONS AND DAUGHTERS AND WHAT THEY FOUGHT THROUGH IN AFGHANISTAN THIS IS THE ONE.</em></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>- Lieutenant-Colonel Trevor Norton CD</span></p>