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The Man in the Arena

From Fighting ISIS to Fighting for My Freedom

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The Man in the Arena

By: Eddie Gallagher, Andrea Gallagher
Narrated by: Eddie Gallagher, Andrea Gallagher
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On September 11, 2018, Navy SEAL Chief Edward Gallagher - a highly-decorated combat veteran with nine deployments to war zones in Africa, Afghanistan, and Iraq - was arrested for war crimes at the TBI medical clinic where he was receiving treatment. His incarceration was the culmination of a year-long whisper campaign started by a group of disgruntled members of his SEAL platoon after a successful deployment fighting ISIS in Mosul, Iraq. At the end of that deployment, Chief Gallagher was named the number-one chief at SEAL Team 7, put in for a Silver Star for valor on the battlefield, and listed for promotion to Senior Chief. The junior members whom Chief Gallagher had called out for cowardice and ineptitude in combat decided they couldn't let any of those things stand and escalated minor complaints into false accusations of stabbing a captured ISIS fighter and shooting noncombatants that gained international attention.

Despite a corrupt investigation and a deceitful prosecutor who would be removed from the case for spying on defense attorneys, Chief Gallagher was found innocent on all major charges, and freed from prison. But only after his family was put through hell, and President Trump intervened to allow Chief Gallagher a fair trial in a military justice system designed to break and persecute our country's warfighters.

While heavily covered in the media, the full story of how a war hero was railroaded and nearly sent to prison for life for crimes he didn't commit has never been told. Chief Gallagher did not testify at his trial and has spoken in little detail about how this travesty came about. Until now. A shocking, raw, tell-all expose that pulls no punches, and identifies each and every bad actor in this surreal story. Book includes QR codes that link to videos of the accusers’ NCIS interviews, trial audio, and text message threads highlighting the plot to take Chief Gallagher down.

"People always tell me, if our life was a movie, no one would believe it." (AG)

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Well done eddie and team, shame on the top brass, trump played a good role, I have seen the documentary this clears a lot off things up and shame on the seals who even breathed a word to ncis

Salute you Eddie

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Absolutely loved the book, it's great Eddie got to tell the truth. Rather than the version that the woke, left and liberal media tried to convey. The NCIS, his superiors in NSW and the minority of his platoon should hold their heads in shame.

What a book, uncovers the lies and deception.

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Really worth the listen and
you can forgive the errors in edits where they've missed removing repeats etc as it's spoken by the actual people involved, they aren't voice actors after all.

it's evident that Eddie went from being a target of revenge to a political football . bruised egos still wanted him punished right till their last. His wife and brother truly went to war for him as he'd gone to war for them.

The legal team he had at the end were absolutely stellar.

This lays out everything the biased media reports where failing to cover.



detailed account of a shameful prosecution

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What a way for god to make someone appreciate all bits of life the good and the bad. A must listen/read

Gods plan

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This was an excellent book, I got through it very quickly as it was hard to put down. The treatment of Eddie was disgusting, this was a nightmare for him and his family. I highly recommend this book.

Shocking true story

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