num_pages: 528
description: From 1999 to 2009 U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills in United States military history. The Pentagon has officially confirmed more than 150 of Kyle's kills (the previous American record was 109) but it has declined to verify the astonishing total number for this book. Iraqi insurgents feared Kyle so much they named him al-Shaitan (the devil) and placed a bounty on his head. Kyle earned legendary status among his fellow SEALs Marines and U.S. Army soldiers whom he protected with deadly accuracy from rooftops and stealth positions. Gripping and unforgettable Kyles masterful account of his extraordinary battlefield experiences ranks as one of the great war memoirs of all time.A native Texan who learned to shoot on childhood hunting trips with his father Kyle was a champion saddle-bronc rider prior to joining the Navy. After 9/11 he was thrust onto the front lines of the War on Terror and soon found his calling as a world-class sniper who performed best under fire. He recorded a personal-record 2100-yard kill shot outside Baghdad; in Fallujah Kyle braved heavy fire to rescue a group of Marines trapped on a street; in Ramadi he stared down insurgents with his pistol in close combat. Kyle talks honestly about the pain of warof twice being shot and experiencing the tragic deaths of two close friends.American Sniper also honors Kyles fellow warriors who raised hell on and off the battlefield. And in moving first-person accounts throughout Kyles wife Taya speaks openly about the strains of war on their marriage and children as well as on Chris.Adrenaline-charged and deeply personal American Sniper is a thrilling eyewitness account of war that only one man could tell.
language: English
title: American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
publisher: HarperCollins