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Against all odds : a true story of ultimate courage and survival in World War II
Audience Adults
Published [2022] by Random House Large Print, [New York]
ISBN 9780593556399
Bib Id 2512632
Copyright 2022
Edition First large print edition.
Description x, 434 pages (large print) : maps ; 24 cm
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9780593556399 large print) $32.00
0593556399
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940.5481 K
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Against all odds : a true story of ultimate courage and survival in World War II
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True story of ultimate courage and survival in World War II
True story of ultimate courage and survival in World War 2
True story of ultimate courage and survival in World War two
Edition
First large print edition.
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[2022] by Random House Large Print, [New York] :
Copyright Date
©2022
Description
x, 434 pages (large print) : maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-369) and index.
Contents
The Mediterranean -- Baptism of fire -- Sicily -- Mud, mules and mountains -- Bloody ridge -- Naples -- The agony of Anzio -- Breakout -- France -- La belle France -- Blitzkrieg in Provence -- The quarry -- The frozen crust -- At all costs -- Germany -- "Murphy crowds Britt" -- "The heart of darkness" -- Peace -- No peace within -- Coming home.
Summary
"The untold story of four of the most decorated soldiers of World War II -- all Medal of Honor recipients -- from the beaches of French Morocco to Hitler's own mountaintop fortress. As the Allies raced to defeat Hitler, four men, all in the same unit, earned medal after medal for battlefield heroism. Maurice "Footsie" Britt, a former professional football player, became the very first American to receive every award for valor in a single war. Michael Daly was a West Point dropout who risked his neck over and over to keep his men alive. Keith Ware would one day become the first and only draftee in history to attain the rank of general before serving in Vietnam. In WWII, Ware owed his life to the finest soldier he ever commanded, a baby-faced Texan named Audie Murphy. In the campaign to liberate Europe, each would gain the ultimate accolade, the Congressional Medal of Honor. Tapping into personal interviews and a wealth of primary source material, Alex Kershaw has delivered his most gripping account yet of American courage, spanning more than six hundred days of increasingly merciless combat, from the deserts of North Africa to the dark heart of Nazi Germany. Once the guns fell silent, these four exceptional warriors would discover just how heavy the Medal of Honor could be -- and how great the expectations associated with it. Having survived against all odds, who among them would finally find peace?"--
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