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Never Surrender: A Soldier's Journey to the Crossroads of Faith and Freedom | 
 enlarge | Author: Jerry Boykin
Creator: Lynn Vincent
Publisher: FaithWords
Category: Book
List Price: $24.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  31 reviews
Sales Rank: 3229
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 368
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.3
ISBN: 0446582158
Dewey Decimal Number: 355.0092
EAN: 9780446582155
ASIN: 0446582158
Publication Date: July 29, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Dust jacket has a rip on top right corner right on the book cover. Damaged in shipping. New book.
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Product Description
In 1978, Jerry Boykin joined what would become the world's premier Special Operations unit, Delta Force. The only promise: "A medal and a body bag." What followed was a .50 caliber round in the chest and a life spent with America's elite forces bringing down warlords and war criminals, despots, and dictators. In Colombia, his task force hunted the notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar. In Panama, he helped capture the brutal dictator Manuel Noriega, liberating a nation. From Vietnam to Iran to Mogadishu, Lt. General Jerry Boykin's life reads like an action-adventure novel. Boykin's powerful story will keep you riveted as he reveals how his military duty worked in tandem with his faith to bring him through the bloody storms of foreign battle-and through the political firestorm that ambushed him in his own country.
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 Terrific Book! November 11, 2008
I really enjoyed this book and highly recommend its' readable and tasteful style- substance without too much gore. It has given me a deep respect for the military and shows how a man's faith in Jesus Christ can carry him through even the most difficult situations in life. The Bible was a constant source of strength to Boykin. He takes you behind the headlines and let's the reader see what really happened on some of those historical missions. Another intriguing book that will inspire you is Visual History of the English Bible, A: The Tumultuous Tale of the World's Bestselling Book. It tells the true stories of the heros of the Christian faith who stood by their principles and in some cases sacrificed their lives in order to bring the Bible to all people.Visual History of the English Bible, A: The Tumultuous Tale of the World's Bestselling Book
 a great read October 28, 2008
This book kept me awake during a loooooong international trip last week.
Boykin is a real modern-day hero who took hits from both outside (arm nearly blown off) and inside the USA (from the president himself).
Well written, easy to read, inspiring, honest.
Great Book! October 20, 2008
Great book! I could not put it down.
If you are a Christian and ever asked, "How do I live out my faith in the workplace?," this will be an inspiring book for you.
Excellent Book October 19, 2008
This is an excellent book about a real american hero. While not revealing operations secrets, the General shares his stories with us in an almost conversational manner. Highly recommend it.
God made us free. Let's mean every word. October 18, 2008
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Guilty until proved innocent. His crime? Being an Evangelical in America. Everybody knows Evangelical Christians aren't to take advantage of free speech; free speech is only meant for the self-righteous Left... right? Irony aside, the Leftist media found Boykin guilty without hearing him out.
This is the story of another soldier who found his nemesis in the Leftist media instead of in druglord Pablo Escobar, Pineapple Noriega of Panama, or among the gun-crazies of Somalia. No, these are almost cartoon enemies compared to the ones at home. The media crucified him, like they did with black judge Clarence Thomas, only Thomas did't even have his black 'friends' to back him out. Who needs an enemy with friends like us?!
Anyways, this is also the story of Delta Force. It's no about politics at all, but about the aftermath of politics being played on regular guys. A personal journey of a man who fought within and without himself to reconcile his personal faith in a Christian God with serving in America's professional armed forces.
It's a story at times sad, but only at times, because one can feel throughout the book that despite the elites of the US forsaking him, his God never did, and in the end it was worth it. Amen to that. Pages 175-6 are the two funniest pages I have read in many years. A delicatessen.
A lesson out of Mogadishu, Somalia: "Our view was just the opposite (of Clinton's): If you're going to commit the military to combat, go all the way, make the full commitment, and be prepared to accept the cost in human lives. If the men doing the dying were prepared to accept it, then the men in air-conditioned meetings ought to accept it, too." I thought we had learned this after Vietnam, but alas!
Happily Boykin came out clean when finally they left him talk (talk... will they ever let us talk? ...truth hurts, it's dangerous): "The Left can scream all it wants that war on terror is about oil or American imperialism, or G.W.Bush's personal amusement. That if we weren't such big, bad bullies, the poor third world jihadists wouldn't have attacked us, and the French would like us better. But w are not the bad guys. Out motto is life and liberty." Well said. Let's never forget that.
God made us free. Let's mean every word.
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