The Heart and the Fist: The Education of a Humanitarian, the
ISBN: , SKU: , AU<strong>THORstrong>: Greitens, Eric, PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), How best to save <strong>thestrong> world--as saint, soldier, or... both? Like many young idealists, Eric Greitens wanted to make a difference. Throughout college and after, he traveled to <strong>thestrong> world's trouble spots, working in refugee camps, serving <strong>thestrong> sick and <strong>thestrong> poor on four continents, from Gaza to Croatia to Mo<strong>thestrong>r <strong>Thestrong>resa's home in Calcutta, among o<strong>thestrong>rs. Yet he could not prevent violence or save anyone from becoming a refugee, he could <strong>onlystrong> step in afterward, and try to ease <strong>thestrong> damage. So he joined <strong>thestrong> Navy SEALs, and became one of <strong>thestrong> world's most elite warriors. In a moving and inspiring, and yet also humble memoir, Eric offers something new in <strong>thestrong> history of military memoirs: a warrior who wanted to be strong to be good, <strong>onlystrong> to discover that he had to be good to be strong. Throughout his SEAL training and deployments in Kenya, Thailand, Afghanistan, and Iraq, <strong>thestrong> lessons of his humanitarian work bore fruit. <strong>Thestrong> result is a lesson for us all: <strong>Thestrong> heart and fist toge<strong>thestrong>r are more powerful than ei<strong>thestrong>r one alone.