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Against All Odds: A True Story of Ultimate Courage and Survival in World War II (Large Print)

Paperback

Main Details

Title Against All Odds: A True Story of Ultimate Courage and Survival in World War II (Large Print)
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Alex Kershaw
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback
Pages:448
Dimensions(mm): Height 233,Width 154
Category/GenreLarge Print
Trade Publishers Large Print
All Dates
Non-Fiction
ISBN/Barcode 9780593556399
Audience
General
Edition Large Print Edition

Publishing Details

Publisher Trade Publishers Large Print
Imprint Random House Large Print
NZ Release Date 19 April 2022
Publication Country United States

Description

*The instant New York Times bestseller* 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 Hitlers own mountaintop fortress, by the national bestselling author of The First Wave Pitch-perfect.-The Wall Street Journal * Riveting.-World War II magazine * Alex Kershaw is the master of putting the reader in the heat of the action.-Martin Dugard 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?