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The Warrior's Heart: Becoming a Man of Compassion and Courage
Written by Eric Greitens
Narrated by Corey M. Snow
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As a humanitarian, he helped aid workers heal orphaned children in Rwanda and lived in camps alongside Bosnian refugees. As a warrior, he excelled at the hardest military training in the world and teamed up with fellow SEALs to hunt al Qaeda terrorists in Iraq.
In The Warrior's Heart, an adaptation of his bestselling memoir, The Heart and the Fist, Eric Greitens brings his adventures to life, sharing stories of friendship, struggle, and hard-earned wisdom. This remarkable book will inspire listeners to live every day with compassion and courage.
In The Warrior's Heart, an adaptation of his bestselling memoir, The Heart and the Fist, Eric Greitens brings his adventures to life, sharing stories of friendship, struggle, and hard-earned wisdom. This remarkable book will inspire listeners to live every day with compassion and courage.
Author
Eric Greitens
ERIC GREITENS was born and raised in Missouri. After earning a Ph.D. as a Rhodes Scholar and serving as a humanitarian volunteer overseas, Eric joined the Navy SEALs and later became the 56th governor of Missouri. A boxing champion and a decorated combat veteran, he is the founder of the nonprofit The Mission Continues and the author of the New York Times bestseller The Heart and the Fist.,
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Great read with a fascinating message about how we all could live with a purpose and change this world for better
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I read this book over the summer for school. "The Warriors Heart" is a very motivational book that describes the characteristics of a real man unlike me. If you want to become a seal when you get to the legal age, this book can tell you what it's like to train and strengthen through the pain. There are also many crazy stories of genocide, poverty, and helping people in times of war. You should read this book because it can motivate you to do amazing things. It proves that you can do whatever it is your mind is set to. After reading this book, I would love to become a seal member because you will become a real man and help the world. I would give this book two thumbs up if I could.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Absolutely amazing, inspirational, and powerful! Eric Greitens takes young readers on his missions across the world and along the way asks them, "What would you do when faced with such-and-such difficult decisions?" He does not sugarcoat anything but nor does he overdramatize the situations. I cannot wait to get this book into the hands of our young readers and I am very glad it was chosen as a Texas Lone Star book!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is a non-fiction 2014 one Star selection. I think many of you will really like this book.Eric Greitens writes a biography about himself, but it’s more about how his choices can help others make choices to become better people. He begins with his family and how his parents told him he needed to go to college. He also knew he would need the money, so he started his own lawn mowing business where he learned that going on a date, meant 2 ½ lawns to mow. He figured how many lawns he needed to mow and how much he needed to save for college and worked hard to create a successful business. He mowed lawns for Roger for eight years. Eric says he learned about doing one’s best from him. Eric said he “needed to understand the world beyond myself.” Therefore, when he was 16, Eric went with Bruce Carl, the director of Youth Leadership in St. Louis, to a homeless shelter. Bruce said, “I want you to listen. Learn.” Eric said that that advice has been his cornerstone throughout life.To continue to learn about the world, Eric spent his summers of college in various places around the world. At 18, before starting school at Duke University, Eric chose to go to China because he had seen pictures of the massacre of Chinese students in Beijing on TV. He wanted to work with the Chinese and help teach them English and he learned Kung Fu while there. Once he begins college, he learns to box and he learns other lessons about life from his trainer. He trains every year and each summer, he volunteers with refugees in dangerous parts of the world: Croatia, Rwanda, Zaire, and Bolivia. He tells about each country and what he learned from each experience. He takes a respite and is awarded a Rhodes Scholarship and lives in Oxford to complete his Graduate degree for several years.When he turns 26, he decides that he can serve the world as a Navy Seal. Like the refugee camps, Eric tells what it was like to train as a Seal. When he was at the end of his training, the United States was attacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. After training was complete, he was deployed to battle. His message is that if you want change, you have to be part of the change instead of hoping someone else will do it. It’s an uplifting novel that challenges you to take advantage of life to make the world a better place.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Good adaptation for young adults of Greitens's memoir The Heart and the Fist.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I was expecting a gung-ho "how I survived SEAL training" story when I picked this one up, and I was really surprised at both the content and the structure of this adapted memoir. Eric Greitens grew up in St. Louis in an average family, and went to college at Duke University. Through grants and fellowships, he traveled to China, Rwanda, Croatia and Bolivia, where he worked with humanitarian groups to help war refugees, orphans and to document the lives of these people through photography. His Rhodes Scholar thesis was that "what matters for people who have suffered is not what they are given, it is what they do." The way to help communities recover is to empower them to do their own work and succeed. Greitens decided to see if he had the courage to match his beliefs, and applied to the US Navy, with the understanding that he had to complete Officer Candidate School in order to get a one-time-only chance to go to Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training. Part of the book is descriptions of his experiences in training, and parts take readers into the world of places that he visited, and the experiences and people who have shaped his life. Between those are short pieces written in italicized second person ("what do you do?") presenting choices directly to the reader. This is a moving memoir that will keep you thinking, with plenty of action and SEAL stories to keep you turnng the pages. 8th grade and up.