It takes the average reader 5 hours and 44 minutes to read We Were Warriors by Johnny Mercer
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
A captain in 29 Commando, Johnny Mercer completed three tours of Afghanistan, the final one as the conflict reached a bloody climax in 2010. That summer, in the hotly contested area of northern Nad-E Ali, he experienced some of the heaviest fighting of the war. He was a Joint Fires Controller who went out on patrol twice a day for 7 months, knowing that in an ambush or brutal close quarter combat, his ability to bring down devastating strikes from artillery or the air could make the difference between life and death. In We Were Warriors he takes us from his commando training to the heat,...
We Were Warriors by Johnny Mercer is 336 pages long, and a total of 86,016 words.
This makes it 113% the length of the average book. It also has 105% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 50 minutes to read We Were Warriors aloud.
We Were Warriors is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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