Code Name: Johnny Walker: The Extraordinary Story of the Iraqi Who Risked Everything to Fight with the U.S. Navy SEALs Author: | Language: English | ISBN:
B00HDPCOHC | Format: EPUB
Code Name: Johnny Walker: The Extraordinary Story of the Iraqi Who Risked Everything to Fight with the U.S. Navy SEALs Description
In this illuminating and informative memoir, an Iraqi translator who risked his life working with American Sniper author Chris Kyle and the Navy SEALs tells his remarkable and inspiring story, offering a refreshing new perspective on the Iraq War.
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 sounds 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 occupation. With inside details on SEAL operations and a humane understanding of how most civilians caught between the terrorists and the new government really felt, Code Name: Johnny Walker reveals a side of the war never told before.
- Audible Audio Edition
- Listening Length: 10 hours and 31 minutes
- Program Type: Audiobook
- Version: Unabridged
- Publisher: Harper Audio
- Audible.com Release Date: February 11, 2014
- Whispersync for Voice: Ready
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00HDPCOHC
‘Code Name: Johnny Walker’ written by Jim DeFelice and a man himself who is the subject of this exciting book hiding under the pseudonym of Johnny Walker, is amazing faction story that in many occasions seems like a good war thriller, a template that will almost certainly soon be transformed into an exciting movie.
Behind the well-known name of Johnny Walker hidden is a man from Iraq who worked as translator for US Army and other US citizens; during eight years Johnny risked his life countless times exposing himself to all the dangers through which he passed together with the people he worked for, but he also saved many lives and due to that earned opportunity to get out of Iraq, receive new life chance and experience the American dream in a place far away from the brutal war environment.
‘Code Name: Johnny Walker’ are his memoirs which tell about his adventures with Navy SEALs in their quest to exterminate the terrorists hidden in the local neighborhoods which were terrorizing civilians and carried out retaliatory actions, also recalling his days spent with Chris Kyle, the author of bestseller ‘American Sniper’. The book manages to give a slightly different, or perhaps better said a deeper picture of everything that was happening in Iraq these years to what Johnny was a witness.
Johnny Walker was the name that guaranteed his safety because regardless of how Americans tried to show their role as liberating, from many Iraqis they were considered as enemies, and all the local people who have worked for US Army were viewed even worse, becoming first targets for all those which thought differently.
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