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Author:

Kershaw, Alex, author.

Title:

Against all odds : a true story of ultimate courage and survival in World War II / Alex Kershaw.

Publisher:

Dutton Caliber,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

x, 351 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

United States.--Infantry Regiment, 30th (1901-1957)--Infantry Regiment, 30th (1901-1957)--Biography.
Soldiers--United States--Biography.
Medal of Honor--Biography.
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Western Front.
World War, 1939-1945--Regimental histories--United States.
Biographies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references 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 national bestselling author of The First Wave tells 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?"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0593183746
9780593183748

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1267403083

LCCN:

2021035935

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