American Sniper Film

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 Kyles 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, Kyle’s 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 2,100-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 war—of 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.