Audie then joins the army at the age of 18 and through the course of the war is decorated for valor nine times thus becoming the most decorated combat soldier in World War II. Shortly afterwards, the family is split up with the smaller siblings placed in an orphanage. He manages to do so until his mother's death. Audie struggles to keep the family together and to feed them. At the tender age of 12, he becomes the head of the family after his father deserts them during the height of the depression.
To Hell and Back is a powerfully real portrayal of American GI’s at war.This is Audie Murphy's story of the achievements of himself and his men in World War II. 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. Although still under twenty-one years old on V-E Day, he was credited with having killed, captured, or wounded 240 Germans. He fought through campaigns in Sicily, Italy, France, and Germany. 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 the marines and paratroopers because he was too short, Murphy eventually found a home with the infantry. The classic bestselling war memoir by the most decorated American soldier in World War II, back in print in a trade paperbackOriginally 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.
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