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    The Price of Valor: The Life of Audie Murphy, America's Most Decorated Hero of World War II
    The Price of Valor: The Life of Audie Murphy, America's Most Decorated Hero of World War II
    The Price of Valor: The Life of Audie Murphy, America's Most Decorated Hero of World War II
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    The Price of Valor: The Life of Audie Murphy, America's Most Decorated Hero of World War II

    Written by David Smith

    Narrated by Tom Perkins

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    When he was seventeen years old, Audie Murphy falsified his birth records so that 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 forty-five-the unusual story of Audie Murphy, the most decorated hero of World War II, is brought to life for a new generation.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateApr 20, 2015
    ISBN9781494582203
    The Price of Valor: The Life of Audie Murphy, America's Most Decorated Hero of World War II
    Author

    David Smith

    David Smith has over 48 years at CABI as Preservation Officer, Curator and latterly Director of Biological Resources and is now retired with the honour of being a CABI Emeritus Fellow. Having a long history of managing a living fungal collection; developing and managing projects on conservation and use of microorganisms; and microbiological regulatory environment particularly, the Nagoya protocol. In past roles as President of the World Federation for Culture Collections, President of the European Culture Collection's Organisation and the UK Federation of Culture Collections he has visited collections in 34 countries and helped set up and enhance collections in 19 countries. He has presented over 160 conference papers and has over 230 publications including 80 peer reviewed papers, 4 books and over 40 book chapters.

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    • 4/5
      Interesting story of an interesting life. Some of this guys trully were a cut appart!
    • 4/5
      An engaging read. I hadn't known anything about Audie Murphy before reading this book except, of course, his being the most decorated WWII hero and of his being an actor afterwards. It's a sad story. He was deeply affected by what we now call PTSD and was only 19 when he came home from the war. His story is one that we should keep alive and unfortunately he has become someone most people have never heard of today. The book is well written, though not a page-turner, but certainly captivating and worth the read.
    • 5/5
      The full, tragic story of Audie Murphy, most decorated American soldier in history turned movie star. This first-rate boo covers his origins, military experiences, movie career, and his unending postwar battle with PTSD. Murphy wrote an autobiography, To Hell and Back, which is less about heroism than the loss of his friends. He reluctantly agreed to do the movie version, given the unenviable opportunity to relive the death of his mother and loss of friends in combat during filming. His PTSD was severe, waking up from nightmares, pounding on the walls sleeping with a gun under his pillow, and enduring the loss of joy and anticipation due to deadened senses. The last led Murphy to a gambling problem that cleaned him out by the time he died in a plane crash at 46. Very touching account.