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Sniper: American Single-Shot Warriors in Iraq and Afghanistan Audiobook
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From Afghanistan's Hindu Kush peaks and sunbaked Helmand Valley to Baghdad, Mosul and Ramadi in Iraq, American snipers have braved heart-pounding situations to hit their human targets dead-on. Few military feats stir the imagination like the image of a pair of riflemen waiting quietly in a building, a bomb crater, or a mountain pass for a Taliban or Al Qaeda fighter to walk into their crosshairs.
Sniper presents real-life tales from the military's frontline snipers—their hits and their misses, the anguish of loss, and the anxiety of the first kill. Authors Gina Cavallaro and Matt Larsen provide riveting accounts of American soldiers and marines on the battlefield, and take a rare look at how Rangers and Special Forces snipers train and operate, and how the war on terror has changed the role of military snipers.
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“The best-of-the-best snipers in action today discuss gunfights, long distance shots, stalking, and more. This is real, it is stirring, and yes, even horrifying.”
— Shelf Life
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The best-of-the-best snipers in action today discuss gunfights, long distance shots, stalking, and more. This is real, it is stirring, and yes, even horrifying.
— Shelf Life
Sniper Listener Reviews
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" Content is good, but the narrator doing really bad accents reslly takes away from it and is actuslly quite distracting. "
— Bryan, 1/22/2019 -
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Elizabeth James, 12/10/2017
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" I guess I like the fictional stories better than the true descriptions of what snipers do and have done. That's OK. "
— Kathy, 5/20/2012 -
" I love reading about snipers but this book didn't measure up to the level of most other books I've read on the topic. It's a bunch of stories that tended to be very similar so it got repetitive. The good thing is that it's only 200 pages. "
— Evan, 4/13/2012
About the Authors
Gina Cavallaro is one of America’s most experienced war correspondents. She has traveled to every corner of today’s war zones and walked the dangerous streets with the troops to tell their real stories of life on the ground in America’s most protracted conflict since the Vietnam War. A writer for the Army Times and the Marine Corps Times, she lives in Alexandria, Virginia.
Matt Larsen, a longtime trainer in hand-to-hand combat and survival techniques, served as a sniper in the United States Marine Corps and the Army Rangers during a twenty-two year career in the military. He recently revised and updated the U.S. Army Survival Handbook, and he is the creator and director of the Modern Army Combatives Program and the commandant and founder of the US Army Combatives School at Fort Benning, Georgia. Larsen lives in Columbus, Georgia.
About the Narrators
Johnny Heller, winner of numerous Earphones and Audie Awards, was named a “Golden Voice” by AudioFile magazine in 2019. He has been a Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award winner from 2008 through 2013 and he has been named a top voice of 2008 and 2009 and selected as one of the Top 50 Narrators of the Twentieth Century by AudioFile magazine.
Jo Anna Perrin is an audiobook narrator whose readings include Disarming the Narcissist by Wendy T. Behary, You Lost Me There by Rosecrans Baldwin, American Freak Show by Willie Geist, and many others.