Sniper, Matt Larsen
Sniper, Matt Larsen
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Sniper
American Single-Shot Warriors in Iraq and Afghanistan

Author: Matt Larsen, Gina Cavallaro

Narrator: Johnny Heller, Jo Anna Perrin

Unabridged: 8 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/15/2011


Synopsis

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.

About Matt Larsen

Matt Larsen, a longtime trainer in hand-to-hand combat and survival techniques, served as a sniper in the U.S. 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 U.S. Army Combatives School at Fort Benning, Georgia. Matt lives in Columbus, Georgia.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ben on March 20, 2024

An overall interesting peak into the mindset of a Sniper and logistics, expertise and demands that come with the job. The stories from real snipers are interesting but the book didn't quite scratch that itch I was looking for and maybe could have gone for another round of editing before publishing.......more

Goodreads review by Joel B Champagne on February 10, 2021

An education This was a revelation, an intro to the motivations and rationalizations of the sniper. I have read several tomes on the sniper, but this one is a bit different. It is a lot more than just laying in wait for a kill. This should be required reading for any military leader that employs snip......more

Goodreads review by Mark on August 16, 2019

This was a pretty interesting read. Sometimes it read too much like a text book, sometimes it was a little too military, but overall I found the topic interesting and the stories from the Snipers to be fascinating.......more

Goodreads review by Joseph W. Gooch on December 15, 2017

Real-life stories that are gritty and don't always turn out as you might like.......more

Goodreads review by Zachary on April 27, 2019

Great modern account of snipers in the war on terror.......more