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01639aam a2200301 i 4500 001 9097C5B8B21E11EBA3B7F59C2EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210511010310 007 n 008 161101s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 1621575845 020 $a 9781621575849 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Smith, David A, $d 1966- 245 14 $a The price of valor : $b the life of Audie Murphy, America's most decorated hero of World War II / $c David A. Smith. 264 1 $a Washington, DC : $b Regnery History, $c 2016. 300 $a xiv, 241 pages ; $c 23 cm. 520 $a 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 lifeincluding 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. 541 $d 20210211. 600 1 $a Murphy, Audie $d 1924-1971 $x United States Army $v Biography. 610 1 $a United States $b Army $x Biography. 650 $a Soldiers $z United States $v Biography. 650 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Campaigns $y Western front. 650 $a Medal of Honor $v Biography. 655 7 $a Biography. 941 $a 1 952 $l CQPE926 $d 20210511011633.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9097C5B8B21E11EBA3B7F59C2EECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search