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Chris Kyle

Biography

Chris Kyle

SEAL Team 3 chief Chris Kyle (1974-2013) served four combat tours in Operation Iraqi Freedom, during which he was awarded two Silver Stars, five Bronze Stars with Valor, and numerous other citations. His memoir, AMERICAN SNIPER: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History, is being made into a major motion picture. He lived with his family in Texas.

Chris Kyle

Books by Chris Kyle

American Gun: A History of the U.S. in Ten Firearms
by Chris Kyle with William Doyle - History, Military, Nonfiction

At the time of his tragic death in February 2013, former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, the top sniper in U.S. military history, was finishing one of the most exciting missions of his life: a remarkable book that retold American history through the lens of a hand-selected list of firearms. Kyle masterfully shows how guns have played a fascinating, indispensable, and often underappreciated role in our national story.

American Sniper
by Chris Kyle - Autobiography, Military

AMERICAN SNIPER is the astonishing autobiography of SEAL Chief Chris Kyle, who is the record-holding sniper in U.S. military history. Kyle’s riveting first-person account of how he went from Texas rodeo cowboy to expert marksman and feared assassin offers a fascinating view of modern-day warfare and one of the most in-depth and illuminating looks into the secret world of Special Ops ever written.