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Summary: Reality of War hits harder than a .50 cal through the chest!
Review: "Lord of the Ring-Trilogy" by J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Teachings of Don Juan-Trilogy" by Carlos Casteneda", "Hammer of the Gods": the Led Zeppelin Story, "Wired", the Life and Times of John Belushi and this book are the only ones that you really don't want to put down until you're finished! Young Audie Murphy spent more than 200 days on the front lines of WWII and survived. The detailed and graphic account of individual and group battles will move you to experience emotions you didn't think you had. By the time he was 19, this scrawny Texas teenager became a man, a professional soldier and an American hero. Perhaps his greatest contribution to today's soldiers and leaders is recognition that the welfare and safety of his men came before his own comforts and needs. His leadership styles, personal ethics and moral examples are emulated and continued today with the Noncommissioned Officers of the SGT Audie Murphy Club. These excellent leaders and modern day warriors have all read this incredible tribute to a leader who cared for his soldiers, loved his country....and remained humble as the sharecropper's son he was. Word for word, this is as powerful as REAL war drama gets without actually experiencing it yourself. If you are a military leader in any branch of the service NCO or Officer or if you are a corporate head, read this book and learn how to care for your subordinates/workers. By the way, I've been a member of the SGT Audie Murphy Club since April 1994.
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Summary: concise and emotional war picture
Review: A fantastic war movie, especially for 1955; I expected something more easy on the emotions, something more careful in its war scenes, but there was none of that. The film rivals Saving Private Ryan in its tense, confusing, violent battle sequences, although the gore is not there. The humanness of the soldiers is a nice touch to the movie as well; getting to know the characters and understanding the big heart of Audie Murphy forced me to stand up and cheer when the troops, or should I say friends, accomplished a difficult task. One of the most tense scenes in the movie occured when the 3rd division soldiers attempted to take a farmhouse in Anzio, a scene nothing short of nail-biting. The direction of Jesse Hibbs is tight and keeps you on the ground with the soldiers, and Audie Murphy, having been a great soldier to say the least, is actually rather good as himself, playing well off the other actors and showing feelings through subtle facial expressions. He commands the power of nuance in his performance. A good, patriotic film. Short, tense, impressive. For anyone interested in WWII. One of the best in its genre.
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Summary: Gripping
Review: A thrilling autobiography of possibly the most famous Medal of Honor winner. A classic in the genre of WWII writing. Later made into a movie staring Murphy playing himself.
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Summary: Excellent and worth reading
Review: At first I was skeptical about the book. It is obviously ghostwritten. However, the ghostwriter is talented, his style a synthesis of Hemingway and Mickey Spillane. And Audie Murphy has a great and heroic tale to tell. Murphy's war is a lot different than say Eisenhower's and Patton's. Murphy became a master at small unit infantry tactics. He was one of the men. Ike and Patton were masters of strategy and were not really part of the men. What Murphy's story also illuminates is it is often just pure chance whether a soldier survives a war. Two pals of his were wounded in the right spots. Another had his heart pierced by a small shell fragment. Another buddy trusted a group of Germans faking a surrender and received a chest full of German lead for his trouble. For all those who liked the fictional "Battle Cry", you will like this book.
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Summary: The Most Decorated of the Greatest Generation
Review: Audie Murphy stars in the movie version of his autobiographydetailing his experiences in the Third Infantry Division in Italy and Southern France during the Second World War. Audie won every American medal awarded for combat as well as a Purple Heart and several French medals for heroism. The cast was excellent and complemented Murphy very well. The combat scenes were extremely realistic and the only movie with rivals it for scenes of fighting in the Italian Campaign is "The Story of GI Joe" which was written by Ernie Pyle. Audie was a member of the "greatest generation" and will always be one of the great heroes of American history. He made up for small stature with a heart and courage of enormous intensity. END
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Summary: What a classic!
Review: Audie Murphy was the most decorated war hero from world war II. This movie tells his story.
It is amazing that Audie survived world war II, then returned home to a career in movies. He later was killed in a plane crash.
The cinemotography in this movie isn't the greatest, and the acting could be better, but the autobiographical story is really good.
Audie Murphy was a genuine hero and he deserves our respect. God Bless him.
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Summary: Very good
Review: Hey its a good movie....but one thing that the movie compresses to the extreme is his act that won him the Medal of Honor. Its EXTREMELY downplayed in the movie. In reality he held off a German advance from 3 directions for over an HOUR....an hour!!! Then just seconds after he jumped off the tank it blew up. Just wanted to set the record straight on that....
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Summary: Very good
Review: Hey its a good movie....but one thing that the movie compresses to the extreme is his act that won him the Medal of Honor. Its EXTREMELY downplayed in the movie. In reality he held off a German advance from 3 directions for over an HOUR....an hour!!! Then just seconds after he jumped off the tank it blew up. Just wanted to set the record straight on that....
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Summary: The best and most graphic true story from WWII!
Review: I first read this book as a young man before entering high school. The book and Audie Murphy became a symbol of not only what one man can do, but what one man can stir in the friends and comrades around him. Murphy's acts, thoughts, and efforts described in this book make him an absolute hero not only during the war, but should be displayed for generations to come as a man that believed in our country and the American Cause. It is the ideals that he fought for, and the American people that he believed in that make this book a must read for all types of people that would want to feel good about the United States of America and to be personaly uplifted and moved by the challenges that this soldier endured and overcame.
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Summary: Absolutely Amazing, Profound, God Bless Our Veterans
Review: I found myself not being able to put the book down once I started reading it. It is unbeleivable to think of what our men and women have gone thourgh during times of war. Unfourtantly in today's socitey we no longer have an appreciation for what others have done before us. God Bless America and our Veterans.
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