Title 8 seconds of courage : a soldier's story from immigrant to the Medal of Honor / Flo Groberg and Tom Sileo.

Publication Info.	New York : Simon & Schuster, 2017.
	©2017

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Description	ix, 191 pages, [16] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Note	Includes index.
Contents	Toy soldiers -- Shut up and listen -- Piss and shit -- The wild west -- Honaker-miracle -- Finish strong -- The last sprint -- Freak on a leash -- A leg up -- A greater honor -- Epilogue: the next mission.
Summary	Describes the author's childhood relocation from France to the U.S., where as a naturalized citizen he joined the military and served multiple tours in Afghanistan before he was wounded while protecting his patrol from a suicide bomber.
Subject	Groberg, Florent, 1983-
	United States. Army -- Biography.
	United States -- Armed Forces -- Afghanistan -- Biography.
	Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Personal narratives, American.
	Soldiers -- United States -- Biography.
	Medal of Honor -- Biography.
	Immigrants -- United States -- Biography.
	French Americans -- Biography.
	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military.
	HISTORY / Military / United States.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism.
Genre/Form	Autobiographies.
	Personal narratives.
Added Author	Sileo, Tom, author.
Added Title	Eight seconds of courage
ISBN	9781501165887 (hardcover)
	1501165887 (hardcover)

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