The heart and the fist
Subtitle: the education of a humanitarian, the making of a Navy SEAL
By: Eric Greitens
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9780547424859
Subjects: United States; Training of; United States. Navy. SEALs; United States. Navy; Armed Forces; Civic action; Officers; Biography; American Humanitarian assistance
Description: 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.
Notes: Map on lining papers.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Mind and fist. Iraq ; China ; Boxing; title: pt. 2. Heart and mind. Bosnia ; Rwanda ; Bolivia ; Oxford; title: pt. 3. Heart and fist. Officer candidate school ; Seal training ; Hell week ; Advanced combat training ; Afghanistan ; Southeast Asia ; Kenya ; Iraq ; The mission continues.