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The heart and the fist : the education of a humanitarian, the making of a Navy SEAL / Eric Greitens. |
| Authors: | Greitens, Eric, 1974- |
| Call number: | B Greitens, Eric GRE |
| Publisher: | Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011. |
| Publication date: | 2011. |
| Subject: |
Humanitarian assistance, American.
Greitens, Eric, 1974- United States. Navy. SEALs -- Biography. United States. Navy -- Officers -- Biography. United States. Navy -- Officers -- Training of. United States -- Armed Forces -- Civic action. |
| Title: | The heart and the fist : the education of a humanitarian, the making of a Navy SEAL / Eric Greitens. |
| Physical description: | 309 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm. |
| Contents note: | Preface -- Iraq -- China -- Boxing -- Bosnia -- Rwanda -- Bolivia -- Oxford -- Officer candidate school -- Seal training -- Hell week -- Advanced combat training -- Afghanistan -- Southeast Asia -- Kenya -- Iraq -- The mission continues. |
| Notes: | Map on endpapers. |
| Summary note: | 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. |
| Biography note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780547424859 054742485X |
| LCCN: | 2010026071 |
| Url for this record: | http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|1290493 |
| Bib No.: | 1290493 |