Author: Harold B. Simpson
Publisher: Hill Junior College Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Audie Murphy, American Soldier
Author: Harold B. Simpson
Publisher: Hill Junior College Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Publisher: Hill Junior College Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
To Hell and Back
Author: Audie Murphy
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805070869
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Adult Audie's army missions. 4.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805070869
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Adult Audie's army missions. 4.
The Price of Valor
Author: David A. Smith
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1621573842
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
When he was seventeen years old, Audie Murphy falsified his birth records so he could enlist in the Army and help defeat the Nazis. When he was nineteen, he single-handedly turned back the German Army at the Battle of Colmar Pocket by climbing on top of a tank with a machine gun, a moment immortalized in the classic film To Hell and Back, starring Audie himself. In the first biography covering his entire life—including his severe PTSD and his tragic death at age 45—the unusual story of Audie Murphy, the most decorated hero of WWII, is brought to life for a new generation.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1621573842
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
When he was seventeen years old, Audie Murphy falsified his birth records so he could enlist in the Army and help defeat the Nazis. When he was nineteen, he single-handedly turned back the German Army at the Battle of Colmar Pocket by climbing on top of a tank with a machine gun, a moment immortalized in the classic film To Hell and Back, starring Audie himself. In the first biography covering his entire life—including his severe PTSD and his tragic death at age 45—the unusual story of Audie Murphy, the most decorated hero of WWII, is brought to life for a new generation.
To Hell And Back
American Hero, Audie Murphy
Author: Charles Whiting
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780750519083
Category : Large print books
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
US Army's most decorated soldier and star of over 40 movies.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780750519083
Category : Large print books
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
US Army's most decorated soldier and star of over 40 movies.
No Name on the Bullet
Author: Don Graham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medal of Honor
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
The fascinating life story of the most decorated soldier in American history--a hero who rose from rural poverty to military glory, moving on to a troubled post-war life as a Hollywood screen idol. 16 pages of photos.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medal of Honor
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
The fascinating life story of the most decorated soldier in American history--a hero who rose from rural poverty to military glory, moving on to a troubled post-war life as a Hollywood screen idol. 16 pages of photos.
Audie Murphy
Author: Joanne Mattern
Publisher: Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 161228955X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Audie Murphy was a dirt-poor Texas farm boy without a future. He spent much of his childhood working at low-paying jobs and hunting to keep his family from starving. Audie's future looked bleak--until the United States entered World War II. Audie lied about his age to join the army, and soon this baby-faced soldier was fighting in Europe. Audie became a fearless leader and the most decorated combat soldier in American history. His war experiences became a popular book and movie, and Audie went on to a career as a Hollywood star. However, the story of America's most honored soldier is not what it seems to be. Audie may have been a hero, but his war experiences affected his life long after the shooting stopped. Find out the fact and fiction about this war hero and movie star and learn the true story of Audie Murphy.
Publisher: Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 161228955X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Audie Murphy was a dirt-poor Texas farm boy without a future. He spent much of his childhood working at low-paying jobs and hunting to keep his family from starving. Audie's future looked bleak--until the United States entered World War II. Audie lied about his age to join the army, and soon this baby-faced soldier was fighting in Europe. Audie became a fearless leader and the most decorated combat soldier in American history. His war experiences became a popular book and movie, and Audie went on to a career as a Hollywood star. However, the story of America's most honored soldier is not what it seems to be. Audie may have been a hero, but his war experiences affected his life long after the shooting stopped. Find out the fact and fiction about this war hero and movie star and learn the true story of Audie Murphy.
American Hero
Author: Charles Whiting
Publisher: J Whiting Books
ISBN: 9780953867707
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In a major new biography, veteran military historian and WII biographer, Charles Whiting combines both talents to tell the tale of barefoot Texan share-cropper's son, who could barely read and write, but became not only the US Army's most decorated soldier in its 250 - year history, but also the star of forty Paramount produced movies: most of which are shown on TV screens around the world to this very day. The gentle-eyed, baby-faced hero had won every decoration the United States had to offer before he was eligible to vote and killed 240 enemy soldiers in the process. Luck made him a movie star. Always he tried to improve himself, but time and time again he was relegated to the 'horse operas', where as he wisecracked cynically, "it was the same old movie, only they changed the colour of the horse." But there was a price to pay for his heroism in drugs, nervous tension and Murphy's addiction to violence. Even as a middle-aged movie star, he always slept with a .45 beneath his pillow, plagued by nightmares of the war. Murphy had been an ordinary boy, who had volunteered to go to fight and did so with exceeding bravery in the last 'good war'. He paid highly for that bravery and sense of duty to a country which had given him nothing save "malnutrition", as he used to quip. He was that last American Hero, who did as President Kennedy proclaimed, " Don't ask what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country." Even before his young life had really commenced, he had become a legend. But in the end 'Tinseltown' and the 'feather merchants' of Hollywood broke him. As Time magazine commented on his death; "Audie Murphy belonged to an earlier, simpler time, one in which bravery was a cardinal and killing was a virtue... We shall not see his like again."
Publisher: J Whiting Books
ISBN: 9780953867707
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In a major new biography, veteran military historian and WII biographer, Charles Whiting combines both talents to tell the tale of barefoot Texan share-cropper's son, who could barely read and write, but became not only the US Army's most decorated soldier in its 250 - year history, but also the star of forty Paramount produced movies: most of which are shown on TV screens around the world to this very day. The gentle-eyed, baby-faced hero had won every decoration the United States had to offer before he was eligible to vote and killed 240 enemy soldiers in the process. Luck made him a movie star. Always he tried to improve himself, but time and time again he was relegated to the 'horse operas', where as he wisecracked cynically, "it was the same old movie, only they changed the colour of the horse." But there was a price to pay for his heroism in drugs, nervous tension and Murphy's addiction to violence. Even as a middle-aged movie star, he always slept with a .45 beneath his pillow, plagued by nightmares of the war. Murphy had been an ordinary boy, who had volunteered to go to fight and did so with exceeding bravery in the last 'good war'. He paid highly for that bravery and sense of duty to a country which had given him nothing save "malnutrition", as he used to quip. He was that last American Hero, who did as President Kennedy proclaimed, " Don't ask what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country." Even before his young life had really commenced, he had become a legend. But in the end 'Tinseltown' and the 'feather merchants' of Hollywood broke him. As Time magazine commented on his death; "Audie Murphy belonged to an earlier, simpler time, one in which bravery was a cardinal and killing was a virtue... We shall not see his like again."
Dogface Soldiers
Author: Daniel R. Champagne
Publisher: Merriam Press
ISBN: 1576383091
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Publisher: Merriam Press
ISBN: 1576383091
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Audie Murphy
Author: Judy Alter
Publisher: McWhiney Foundation Press
ISBN: 9781933337197
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 71
Book Description
The life of Audie Murphy.
Publisher: McWhiney Foundation Press
ISBN: 9781933337197
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 71
Book Description
The life of Audie Murphy.