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To Hell and Back Paperback – May 1, 2002

by Audie Murphy (Author)
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The classic bestselling war memoir by the most decorated American soldier in World War II, back in print in a trade paperback. Originally 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.

Many decades 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. He fought through campaigns in Sicily, Italy, France, and Germany. Although still under twenty-one years old on V-E Day, he was credited with having killed, captured, or wounded 240 Germans. 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. To Hell and Back is a powerfully real portrayal of American GI's at war.

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    0805070869
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Audie Murphy was the most decorated American soldier during World War II. He went on to a long film career, starring in The Red Badge of Courage, The Quiet American, and his own To Hell and Back. He was killed in a plane crash in 1971 at age forty-six.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Holt Paperbacks; Reprint edition (May 1, 2002)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 274 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0805070869
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0805070866
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.1 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.75 x 8.3 inches
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David M. England
5.0 out of 5 stars A Inside View of Hell
Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2012
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"I am well acquainted with fear. It strikes first in the stomach, coming like the disemboweling hand that is thrust into the carcass of a chicken. I feel now as though icy fingers have reached into my mid-parts and twisted the intestines into knots." -Pg. 96.

I assume this vivid description was probably written by a ghost writer who helped Audie with the book, but it graphically describes what vivid accounts are contained in Audie' recounting his experiences on the battle field. I roomed in graduate school with a student who had been an officer of a roving band of fighters in the Vietnam war. I would ask him about his experiences and some of his stories of killing prisoners and keeping a small gun in case he was captured in order to take his on life so that he wouldn't be tortured, were chilling. He finally said, "I cannot explain war to you, you have to have been there to experience it first hand in order to understand war." His words rung true in reading Audie Murphy's memoir "To Hell and Back", and seeing from Audie's eyes, the incredible story of his life on the front line. His division lost 4,500 men over a 7 month period. His friends and companions that he started off with were all killed. At times his determination and drive turned him into a one-man killing machine and his own personal war.

I grew up not caring for Audie Murphy's movies, as this clean-cut young man, with the boyish face, he did not look like the Medal of Honor winner that I pictured in my mind and didn't fit in with the movie roles that he was in as the lead hero. But after reading his book, I watched his movie of the same title of his war experience with a renewed fascination and appreciation for his accomplishments and what he endured. To those that watched the movie too, the book is more in depth and the accounts of the casualties are more graphic. I have never been to war, but I have a better appreciation for those that have given their all after reading his account. We are fortunate to have the latest Medal of Honor recipient, Dakota Meyers, from the adjoining county. After reading Audie's book, I have ordered Dakota's book "Into the Fire". This is a true hard-to-put-down book with riveting action. One wonders that if Audie had lived, if he may have beaten Reagan to the Commander In Chief position!
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Kirby B.
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
Reviewed in the United States on November 24, 2023
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Great book for all to read, about a true American hero, not some electronic, or animated figure. Should be required reading for all students, to show that there is no glory in war, only in the souls of our brave soldiers who fight them for us. If you know a war veteran, read this, and you'll maybe understand 1 tenth of what so many of them went through. Unbelievable, but true.
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BBD
5.0 out of 5 stars A must read for the WW2 history scholar
Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2011
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I just bought the new paperbook edition of this book, I know that I must have read it casually many years ago, likely when I served in the US Army. But now all these years later, with more wisdom, I really could appreciate the real battle experiences portrayed in the book, the misery, the fight to stay alive, this is a great portrayal and thankfully not a military recruiting book, and thankfully not an anti-war book either in my opinion.
I read this book rather fast, two evenings, and I have a real problem reading books that I buy all the way through. I was especially interested in his supposed choice of weapons, seems I have a more vested interest in all things m1 carbine, the nice little rifle that shot the non rifle cartridge ".30 m1 carbine" to be not confused with the M1 Garand. The m1 carbine was given to support personnel and it seems in the book we find out that Audie Murphy had an M1 Carbine alot, likely due to his stature of only five foot six inches tall, or it could likely have been that was due to his ever increasing rank, but he did use the carbine alot. Since I am also the same height, and strangely half of my family came from Texas as well from that same time period, I too would likely have been issued an m1 carbine in ww2, it was a popular weapon with a removeable 15 round box magazine, and soldiers carried more than just one mag. Seems Audie Murphy, not mentioned in the book, actually killed seven snipers with an m1 carbine, though in the book it does mention some work on several snipers with an m1 carbine, to include the day he was shot in the hip and just barely shot the german sniper in time with his carbine when he raised it up with one arm and shot pistol style, of which he was taken to a medic tent for three days before casualties could be evacuated, by that time he formed gangreane in the wound and for a month they pumped him full of penicillin and carved away dead flesh, GASTLY details, he actually returned to combat after that!
You find out in the book that it almost seems his survival for three years of combat was sure luck of the draw, and the acts he performed were nothing anyone else couldn't have performed. The more I read of the book, I feel that there was a fact one can pick up to combat tactics, it seems alot of the guys that got picked off either exposed themselves, or were not in a good position to keep from catching shell fragments from artillery, and oh that is so true supposedly, one must not expose themselves and must take cover, and the parts in the book about keeping his mouth open for explosions is to prevent concussion death/injury, like popping lungs like a ballon instead of squeezing the air out of an open mouth, I learned that in the army.
So yeah, if a young or older person is in the miltary or considering military service, this book could in theory save their life by learning basic combat survival skills.
I guess I will need to read another book or account of the records of how or for what he received all his medals, just for good reading, cause it aint covered in his book, but that is good, cause those who likely seek glory get it posthumously anyway, I mean, seems all CMH awardees in the last ten years got it awarded after death. Its good that his awards and suffering got him a movie career, though by the time he died in a plane accident, his career was in decline and the vietnam war was in full swing(1971), you could say that the cmh and his awards left him dead prematurely, where as he could have become a humble farmer or such and died much later a regular citizen. People should read the book along with seeing the movie, since the movie is a little different, but hey, it's Audie Murphy himself in the movie, a priceless treat never again to likely ever be repeated, soldier to actor, later portraying himself.
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Tyler Gonsalves
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic
Reviewed in Germany on January 30, 2024
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Almost done, a bit slow to start, but picks up and my God, what a true story! No idea how Murphy survived so long!
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Cathy
5.0 out of 5 stars Audie Murphy was a hero
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This book is by far better than the film, Audie Murphy was a hero, outstanding in his bravery.
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5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent
Reviewed in India on March 10, 2018
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Not much more to say except that the hype is real. This is one of the books that defines the character of a true hero, well written, detailed and gritty.

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Denise Foster
5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting book
Reviewed in Australia on June 12, 2023
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Am going to read it again
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