The heart and the fist : the education of a humanitarian, the making of a Navy SEAL / Eric Greitens.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Description: 309 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780547424859
  • 054742485X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 359.0092 B 23
LOC classification:
  • V63.G74 A3 2011
NLM classification:
  • 359.984 G824h
Online resources:
Contents:
pt. 1. Mind and fist. Iraq ; China ; Boxing -- pt. 2. Heart and mind. Bosnia ; Rwanda ; Bolivia ; Oxford -- pt. 3. Heart and fist. Officer candidate school ; Seal training ; Hell week ; Advanced combat training ; Afghanistan ; Southeast Asia ; Kenya ; Iraq ; The mission continues.
Summary: The author describes how, after working as a humanitarian around the world, he realized that he could do nothing to stop violence or prevent people from becoming refugees and soon joined the elite Navy SEALs, where he drew on his humanitarian training as he battled injustice.
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Map on lining papers.

Includes bibliographical references.

pt. 1. Mind and fist. Iraq ; China ; Boxing -- pt. 2. Heart and mind. Bosnia ; Rwanda ; Bolivia ; Oxford -- pt. 3. Heart and fist. Officer candidate school ; Seal training ; Hell week ; Advanced combat training ; Afghanistan ; Southeast Asia ; Kenya ; Iraq ; The mission continues.

The author describes how, after working as a humanitarian around the world, he realized that he could do nothing to stop violence or prevent people from becoming refugees and soon joined the elite Navy SEALs, where he drew on his humanitarian training as he battled injustice.

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