Download or read book The Price of Valor written by David A. Smith and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-04-20 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book No Name on the Bullet written by Don Graham and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book To Hell And Back written by Audie Murphy and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Audie Murphy American Soldier written by Harold B. Simpson and published by Hill Junior College Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Films of Audie Murphy written by Bob Larkins and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work not only traces Audie Murphy's life as a film actor (from Beyond Glory, 1948, to A Time for Dying, 1971) but also provides a biography that runs from his birth to his three years in the army, winning every possible combat medal including the Congressional Medal of Honor--and from his Hollywood debut at James Cagney's invitation to his final dramatic decline, gambling his fortunes away, becoming involved in violent episodes, and dying in a plane crash in 1971. Each of the 49 film entries gives full credits, including casts, characters, crew, date of release, location, and cost, backgrounds for directors and main players, and comments and anecdotes from interviews with Murphy's colleagues. Critical reviews are quoted and the work is richly illustrated with film stills and private photographs.
Download or read book To Hell and Back written by Audie Murphy and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2002-05-01 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic bestselling war memoir by the most decorated American soldier in World War II. 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. Many decades later, this classic wartime memoir is just as gripping as it was then. Desperate to see action but rejected by both the marines and paratroopers because he was too short, Murphy eventually found a home with the infantry. He fought through campaigns in Sicily, Italy, 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 our highest military decoration, the Congressional Medal of Honor. To Hell and Back is a powerfully real portrayal of American GI's at war.
Download or read book To Hell and Back written by Audie Murphy and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adult Audie's army missions. 4.
Download or read book The Films and Career of Audie Murphy written by Sue Gossett and published by Empire Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Audie Murphy written by Joanne Mattern and published by Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-09 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Audie Murphy written by Judy Alter and published by McWhiney Foundation Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of Audie Murphy.
Download or read book Audie Murphy written by Hourly History and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the remarkable life of Audie Murphy... Audie Murphy was a movie star, writer, and one of the most decorated soldiers who ever lived. He was barely 18 years old when he was shipped off to fight fascists in Italy during World War II. As he himself would later liken it, he went "to hell and back" and lived to tell the tale. In this book, we will dive deeper to bring you the man behind the medals. Here is a telling of the life and legend of Audie Murphy in full. Discover a plethora of topics such as Orphaned at an Early Age Shipped off to War Murphy's Medal of Honor Hollywood Success Addiction and Arrests The Fatal Plane Crash And much more! So if you want a concise and informative book on Audie Murphy, simply scroll up and click the "Buy now" button for instant access!
Download or read book American Hero written by Charles Whiting and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dogface Soldiers written by Daniel R. Champagne and published by Merriam Press. This book was released on 2005-12 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Last of the Cowboy Heroes written by Robert Nott and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the world of Western films, Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, and Audie Murphy have frequently been overlooked in favor of names like Roy Rogers and John Wayne. Yet these three actors played a crucial role in the changing environment of the post-World War II Western, and, in the process, made many excellent middle-budget films that are still a pleasure to watch. This account of these three Western stars' careers begins in 1946, when Scott and McCrea committed themselves to the Western roles they would play for nearly twenty years. Murphy, who also joined them in 1946, would continue his Western career for a few years after his cohorts rode into the film sunset. Arranged chronologically, and balanced among the three actors, the text concludes with Audie Murphy's last Western in 1967. Covering both the personal and professional lives of these three Hollywood cowboys, the book provides both their stories and the story of a Hollywood whose attitude toward the Western was in a time of transition and transformation. The text is complemented by 60 photographs and a filmography for each of the three.
Download or read book Audie Murphy s Film and Television Co Stars from a to Z written by David Williams and published by David Williams. This book was released on 2013-04-05 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No film or television program would be complete without co-stars and supporting players. This book pays homage to those 600 individuals who acted with Audie Murphy in his 44 films and 29 television episodes from 1948 through 1969. I hope you enjoy learning more about those hard-working men, women, and children who were honored to work with America's most decorated soldier on the big and small screen. This book also has four forewords. Two of those forewords are by two of Audie Murphy's co-stars, Michael Dante and Jan Merlin. Another foreword is by Sue Gossett, author of The Films and Career of Audie Murphy and Now Showing. The other foreword is by Audie Murphy's sole surviving sibling Nadine Murphy-Lokey!
Download or read book Let s Never Forget on This Day in Audie Murphy s Life written by Ann Williams and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-11-22 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David and Ann's book is a thorough, informative and enjoyable read about the incredible life of Audie Leon Murphy. We will never forget, through this wonderful book, all the outstanding accomplishments, on and off the screen, of a great American hero and a talented, humble man. From a foreword by Michael Dante
Download or read book American Hero written by Charles Whiting and published by J Whiting Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."
