A review by hayleybeale
The Warrior's Heart: Becoming a Man of Compassion and Courage by Eric Greitens

3.0

Eric Greitens is clearly an exceedingly admirable, intelligent and compassionate man and this is an easy to read, exciting and moving biography of his time helping in places like Croatia and Rwanda. His thoughtfulness about being "not just a help to people after they'd been hurt, but part of a force that could offer strong protection in the first place" leads him to join the Navy SEALs and to a gripping section about trials and training. However, he ends up in Iraq and the elephant in the room about why the US is there (and in Afghanistan) is never even touched on - and I suspect thoughtful readers will want to know how this fitted into his world view. Nevertheless, his post-SEALs project 'The Mission Continues' sounds exemplary. The structure of the book - a series of 'What would you do?'s - will catch readers' interest even if the questions are a bit loaded in favor of what Eric did.