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* Read * American Hero: The Life and Death of Audie Murphy by Charles Whiting ✓ eBook or Kindle ePUB. American Hero: The Life and Death of Audie Murphy Story was great editing was not so good Edward B. Stover I never read a book with so many typos.Story was great editing was not so good.. "Good Biography But Many Typos" according to Joseph Castellano. Whiting's biography of Audie Murphy provides an excellent review of his heroic exploits in the European Theater of Operations during World War II. I found it to be more complete that Murphy's own book, "To Hell and Back." The stories of Murphy's problems dealing with his adjustment to civilian lif
| Title | : | American Hero: The Life and Death of Audie Murphy |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.62 (625 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0953867706 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-22 |
| Language | : | English |
He is the author of several bestselling books, including ""Patton, The Last Assault ""and ""Death on a Distant Frontier. About the Author Charles Whiting, a premier historian of World War II, served with a reconnaissance outfit in the war. ""He currently lives in York, England.
Story was great editing was not so good Edward B. Stover I never read a book with so many typos.Story was great editing was not so good.. "Good Biography But Many Typos" according to Joseph Castellano. Whiting's biography of Audie Murphy provides an excellent review of his heroic exploits in the European Theater of Operations during World War II. I found it to be more complete that Murphy's own book, "To Hell and Back." The stories of Murphy's problems dealing with his adjustment to civilian life . A Forgotten Hero Edward P. Matos This is a great, yet tragic, account of the life of a young man, Audie Murphy, who was forever damaged by war and forgotten by the country he loved and fought so gallantly and proudly for during the Second World War.Surprisingly enough there is very little literature on America's most highly decorat
""He currently lives in York, England.. Charles Whiting, a premier historian of World War II, served with a reconnaissance outfit in the war. He is the author of several bestselling books, including ""Patton, The Last Assault ""and ""Death on a Distant Frontier
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. Luck made him a movie star. Murphy had been an ordinary boy, who had volunteered to go to fight and did so with exceeding bravery in the last 'good war'. Even as a middle-aged movie star, he always slept with a .45 beneath his pillow, plagued by nightmares of the 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. 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. 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. 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.". But in
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