To Hell and Back by Audie Murphy

To Hell and Back by Audie Murphy

Originally published in 1949, TO HELL AND BACK was a smash bestseller for fourteen weeks and later became a major motion picture starring Audie Murphy as himself. More than fifty years later, this classic wartime memoir is just as gripping as it was then. Desperate to see action but rejected by both marines and paratroopers because he was too short, Murphy eventually found a home with the infantry. He fought through campaigns in Sicily, France and Germany. Although still under twenty-one years old on V-E Day, he was credited with having killed, captured or wounded 240 Germans. He emerged from the war as America's most decorated soldier, having received twenty-one medals, including America's highest military decoration, the congressional Medal of Honour. TO HELL AND BACK is a powerfully real portrayal of American GI's at war.

Audie Murphy was raised in a family of eleven children on a sharecropper's farm in Hunt County, Texas, after their father abandoned them. After his mother died, he was sixteen, and his brothers and sisters were placed in an orphanage or with relatives. He enlisted in the infantry when World War II broke out. Murphy had twenty-eight medals by the end of the war, including three from France and one from Belgium, making him the nation's most decorated soldier. After returning to a hero's welcome in the United States, actor James Cagney urged him to pursue an acting career, and he went on to star in over forty films.

He died in a private plane crash near Roanoke, Virginia, in 1971, at the age of 46. He was laid to rest in the Arlington National Cemetery.

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ISBN 13	9780805070866
ISBN 10	0805070869
Title	To Hell and Back
Author	Audie Murphy
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	St Martin's Press
Year published	2002-05-01
Number of pages	288
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