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Code Name: Johnny Walker: The Extraordinary Story of the Iraqi Who Risked Everything to Fight with the U.S. Navy SEALs , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 630min
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. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Ganim. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/003784/bk_harp_003784_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Vergiftete Wahrheit
Cincinnati, 1998. Der erfolgreiche Wirtschaftsanwalt Rob Bilott (Mark Ruffalo) gerät in einen Zwiespalt, als ihn zwei Farmer auf merkwürdige Vorgänge in Parkersburg, West Virginia, aufmerksam machen, wo eine große Zahl von Kühen auf rätselhafte Weise verendet ist. Die Farmer vermuten dahinter den Chemiekonzern DuPont, für den Bilott selbst als Anwalt arbeitet. Trotz dieses Interessenskonflikts will der gewissenhafte Jurist den Fall vorbehaltlos aufklären und findet tatsächlich schnell belastende Indizien, die auf einen Umweltskandal von ungeheurem Ausmaß hindeuten. Unterstützt von seinem Boss Tom Terp (Tim Robbins) und seiner Frau Sarah (Anne Hathaway) stürzt sich Bilott aufopferungsvoll in eine langwierige Auseinandersetzung, die ihn seinen Ruf, seine Gesundheit, privates Glück und vielleicht sogar sein Leben kosten könnte...- Shop: buecher
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