CODE NAME: JOHNNY WALKER by Johnny Walker, Jim DeFelice ( 9780062267559 )

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Title:

CODE NAME: JOHNNY WALKER
THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF THE IRAQI WHO RISKED EVERYTHING TO FIGHT WITH THE U.S. NAVY SEALS

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Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0062267558

ISBN 13:

9780062267559

Publisher:

HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS INC

Pub. date:

11 February, 2014

Pages:

304

Description:

"An Iraqi translator who risked his life working with American Sniper author Chris Kyle and the Navy SEALs tells his ... story, offering a ... new perspective on the Iraq War"--Amazon.com.

Synopsis:

In this unforgettable memoir, the Navy SEALs' most trusted translator-a man who is credited with saving countless American lives and became a legend in the special-ops community-tells his inspiring story for the first time. As the insurgency in Iraq intensified following the American invasion, U.S. Navy SEALs were called upon to root terrorists from their lairs. Unsure of the local neighborhoods and unable to speak the local languages, they came to rely on one man to guide them and watch their backs. He was a "terp"-an interpreter-with a job so dangerous they couldn't even use his real name. They named him Johnny Walker. They soon called him brother. Over the course of eight years, the Iraqi native traveled around the country with nearly every SEAL and special operations unit deployed there. He went on thousands of missions, saved dozens of SEAL and other American lives, and risked his own daily. Helped to the U.S. by the SEALs he protected, Johnny Walker's life is so remarkable that his tale reads like fiction. But every word of it is true. For the first time ever, a "terp" tells what it was like in Iraq during the American invasion and the brutal insurgency that followed.With inside details on SEAL operations and a humane understanding of the tragic price paid by ordinary Iraqis, Code Name: Johnny Walker reveals a side of the war that has never been told before.

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William Morrow

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Returnable

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