Автобиографическая книга, написанная Крисом Кайлом при сотрудничестве Скотта Макьюэна и Джима ДеФелис, вышла в США в 2012 г., а уже 2 февраля 2013 г. ее автор трагически погиб от руки психически больного ветерана Эдди Р. Рута, бывшего морского пехотинца, страдавшего от посттравматического синдрома. Крис (Кристофер Скотт) Кайл служил с 1999 до 2009 г. в рядах SEAL — элитного формирования «морских котиков» — спецназа американского военно-морского флота. Совершив четыре боевых командировки в Ирак, он стал самым результативным снайпером в истории США. Достоверно уничтожил 160 иракских боевиков, или 255 по другим данным. Успехи Кайла сделали его популярной личностью не только среди...

Chris Kyle—fallen hero and #1 bestselling author of American Sniper—reveals how ten legendary guns forever changed U.S. history. At the time of his tragic death in February 2013, former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, the top sniper in U.S. military history, was finishing one of the most exciting missions of his life: a remarkable book that retold American history through the lens of a hand-selected list of firearms. Kyle masterfully shows how guns have played a fascinating, indispensable, and often underappreciated role in our national story. “Perhaps more than any other nation in the world,” Kyle writes, “the history of the United States has been shaped by the gun. Firearms secured the...

He is the deadliest American sniper ever, called “the devil” by the enemies he hunted and “the legend” by his Navy SEAL brothers… 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...