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Product Description
From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle available a many career sniper kills in United States troops history. Iraqi insurgents feared him so most they called him al-Shaitan ("the devil") and placed a $20,000 annuity on his head. Kyle warranted mythological standing among his associate SEALs, Marines, and U.S. Army soldiers, fighting alongside them in a streets, as good as safeguarding them from rooftops and secrecy positions. Through 4 fight deployments, he was awarded 7 medals for bravery, including dual Silver Stars. Gripping and unforgettable, Kyle's dictatorial comment of his unusual terrain practice ranks as one of a good fight memoirs of all time.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #9602 in Books
- Published on: 2012-01-17
- Released on: 2012-01-17
- Format: Large Print
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 528 pages
Editorial Reviews
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“In a village of chosen warriors, one male has risen above a ranks and renowned himself as unique. Chris Kyle is that man. A master sniper, Chris has finished and seen things that will be talked about for generations to come.” (MARCUS LUTTRELL, former USN SEAL, target of a Navy Cross for unusual intrepidity underneath fire, #1 bestselling author of Lone Survivor )
“Reads like a first-person thriller narrated by a sniper. The bare-bones contribution are stunning. .... A best troops memoir.” (BOOKLIST )
“American Sniper is a inside story of what it’s like to be in war. A dauntless soldier and patriot, Chris Kyle writes honestly about a missions, personal challenges, and tough choices that are partial of daily life of an chosen SEAL Sniper. It’s a classic!” (RICHARD MARCINKO (USN, Ret.), First Commanding Officer of SEAL Team Six and #1 bestselling author of Rogue Warrior )
“The tender and memorable comment of a creation of a country’s record-holding sniper, Chris Kyle’s discourse is a absolute book, both in terms of fight movement and tellurian drama. Chief Kyle is a loyal American soldier down to a bone, a Carlos Hathcock of a new generation.” (CHARLES W. SASSER, Green Beret (US Army Ret.) and author of One Shot, One Kill )
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER (No Source )
“Eloquent ... An aggressively created comment of frontline combat, with copiousness of action.” (KIRKUS REVIEWS )
About a Author
SEAL Team 3 Chief Chris Kyle served 4 fight tours in Operation Iraqi Freedom and elsewhere. For his aplomb in battle, he was awarded dual Silver Stars, 5 Bronze Stars with Valor, dual Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medals, and one Navy and Marine Corps Commendation. Additionally, he perceived a Grateful Nation Award, given by a Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs. Following his fight deployments, he became arch instructor for training Naval Special Warfare Sniper and Counter-Sniper teams, and he authored a Naval Special Warfare Sniper Doctrine, a initial Navy SEAL sniper manual. Today, he is boss of Craft International (www.craftintl.com), a world-class personality in training and security. He lives with his family in Texas, where he devotes most of his gangling time to assisting infirm veterans.

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157 of 179 people found a following examination helpful.
Not Great...Not Terrible...
By xps 15
Very extended cadence story of Chris Kyle's career as a SEAL. Broad in a clarity that there is unequivocally small fact on tangible shots taken/contact with enemies (where he indeed intent targets in his ability as a sniper).
I was primarily going to examination a book after carrying examination a initial 30% of it that left me a bit unhappy though we motionless to give it a chance, and finished it before re-writing my whole review. we wholly determine with some of a prior reviews that a essay could have been improved and we have to acknowledge that we indeed started wanting to skip all a passages created by Chris's mother (Taya) entirely. It does give a bit of outlook on their private life though as a shooter we was some-more meddlesome in Chris's tangible accounts.
I found it unequivocally engaging (and primarily a bit brazen) how Chris starts his book accurately a same approach Carlos Hatchcock* did with his journal referencing carrying had to kill a lady a same approach Carlos started his book carrying had to kill a boy. Later in a book Chris pays loyalty to Carlos so a likeness became understandable.
* Carlos Hathcock - technically a best sniper ever to have walked a earth and substantially a best created Sniper journal to date)
Comparing a vast annals on fighting in wars like Vietnam compared to complicated day crusade in places like Iraq we cant seem to shake a feeling that a rivalry guys like Chris face there usually aren't cut from a same cloth. The Vietcong were a unequivocally challenging enemy, vital a quarrel and being glorious during guerilla warfare, tracking, formulation and even carrying some glorious snipers in their ranks. Reading Chris speak about his rivalry regulating beachballs to cranky a stream in sequence to strech American positions (which he soon shot ensuing in them drowning), a rivalry mostly being totally jacked adult on heroin, being foolish and carrying NO thought how to indeed quarrel (pot shots and foolish fighting) and articulate about picking off rivalry soldiers on a nightly basement (sometimes adult to 3 a night) unequivocally gives a sense that a most easier to hillside adult a high kill total than it was in past wars. Chris goes on to acknowledge how most he admires Carlos Hathcock and that he admits he is not even in a same joining observant that he got as many kills as he did since he was propitious in mostly being where a movement was. Therefore reading about some of a kills leaves we feeling reduction than 'impressed'. That being said, what Chris has achieved and what he did for his nation is zero brief of drastic and respectable.
Chris does go on to plead some of a travel fights (clearing building to building) he was concerned in out of his possess choice after swapping his purloin for a Marines m-16 in sequence to quarrel along side them as he felt he could be of some-more use to a marines he was aiding on a belligerent than he could be as over-watch (a vast series of his kills were CQ kills), that is also rarely respectable.
So...
- If we are meddlesome in a technical side of being a Sniper and tangible sum on shots taken, there are improved books (for a start Carlos Hathcock's autobiography, A 100% flawless contingency read!)
- If you're seductiveness is utterly in sum of SEAL operations and their impasse in new wars (Iraq) afterwards this book will substantially defect as it lacks detail. It is however unequivocally engaging to see how most a purpose of a complicated day SEAL has altered (where and how they are deployed and how they work as partial of corner force missions with other branches of a US military).
- If we wish to examination about Chris Kyle for a consequence of training about him as a person, where he came from and a discerning run-down on his kill record (with no fact on apart kills as they tend to be summed adult as "...that day we killed 3..." afterwards this book will substantially be of interest.
All in all a good-ish book...couldn't contend a $13 I'd spend again for a Kindle version, though not woeful carrying examination it.
267 of 318 people found a following examination helpful.
Remarkable Story of A Truly Remarkable American Hero
By Shawn Kovacich
What a conspicuous story of heroism, patriotism, and self-denial by an even some-more conspicuous American, Chris Kyle. A Navy SEAL and rarely lerned sniper, Kyle is even some-more conspicuous in his candid access that his accomplishments alone are not to be lauded, though a accomplishments and sacrifices of his associate infantry group who sacrificed their vision, limbs, and some eventually their lives in fighting for a freedoms that we mostly take for granted, nonetheless reason so dear. It competence not be much, though here is one American that is perpetually beholden and grateful to Chris Kyle and ALL of a dauntless group and women fighting for a country.
Kyle joins a ranks of such American sniper greats as Carlos Hathcock 93 reliable kills during a Vietnam War, and whose sniper exploits were so eloquently associated to a reader in these dual books created by Charles Henderson; Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed Kills and Silent Warrior: The Marine Sniper's Story Vietnam Continues, as good as, other sniper greats such as; Chuck Mawhinney a U.S. Marine with 103 reliable kills during a Vietnam War and Adelbert Waldron a prior U.S. Military record hilt with 109 reliable kills.
One sold aspect that we favourite about how this book was created was a occasional outlook voiced by Kyle's poetic wife, Taya. Although both she and Kyle connote to problems both faced concerning any other and his deficiency during his infantry service, one can't assistance though comprehend what a truly conspicuous women Taya is and Chris is a damn propitious male to have her. we am utterly certain that God has and will continue to grin on a both of them.
I unequivocally favourite Kyle's no apologetic matter that he enjoyed his pursuit and took good honour in saving a lives of his associate soldiers as they fought opposite a evils that they found in Iraq. Kyle doesn't go into a lot of hideous fact concerning that theme though he creates it painfully transparent that unless we have indeed been there and seen a immorality that hasn't been diluted by politicians and a media, afterwards we unequivocally have no thought what it is like. we would wholeheartedly agree!
Kyle talks about not usually his impasse as a Navy SEAL sniper in Iraq, though also his operative attribute with other branches of a military. Some genuine judicious stuff!
Kyle not usually gives we a glance into a universe he and his associate SEAL's lived during a Iraq War, though also a problems he faced when he came home in between tours and for good on his retirement from a Navy. And nonetheless there were difficulties, he also shares some unequivocally humorous moments as well. we generally favourite a story about a "burglar" violation into his home while he was on leave and while he was still in bed after his mother left for work. we was shouting so tough that we couldn't stop for several minutes. As a matter of fact we am shouting genuine tough right now as we form this review. Sorry Chris, we am shouting during we as good as with we on this one. Ha Ha Ha
I am not one for posting a lot of spoilers when we do my reviews, though we do have to contend that one usually needs examination a few pages to comprehend that not usually is Chris Kyle one of a excellent soldiers a United States of America has each produced, though he is also, and maybe some-more importantly, one helluva tellurian being and a truly good American. God Bless!
I rarely suggest this book to each American as a unequivocally inspirational examination as good as a autobiography of one unusual tellurian being.
Shawn Kovacich
Martial Artist/Krav Maga Instructor
NRA Firearms Instructor
Author and Creator of countless books and DVD's.
86 of 102 people found a following examination helpful.
Enjoyable and interesting
By TT in MA
While not high prose, this was a discerning and engaging read. we totally support a infantry and their actions so apparently am definitely predisposed. However, we consider that a authors story is fascinating and important. What a infantry do to strengthen us should not be lost or dismissed. It is a flattering spacious and easy to examination comment of Chris' tours of avocation and appearance in many unequivocally critical activities in a war. It is not a story book though one man's practice during those ancestral moments. we found it unequivocally ominous about a sold aspect of a SEALs and sniping in particular; both topics that we do not know a lot about. we enjoyed it and consider that if we are meddlesome in a quarrel and or sniping afterwards this is a inestimable read. Perhaps if we are an consultant it competence be minute enough, though we favourite it.
Thanks to Chris and all his brothers in arms for their sacrifice.

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