To Hell and Back by Audie Murphy
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Book Reviews of To Hell and Back
Book Review: Audie Murphy, as he tells it
Summary: 4 Stars
The bones of his story are here. As with all autobiographies, there is some tweeking of the actual conversations, events, and time periods. Regardless, it is an interesting read, and I take nothing away from this true American hero. So he is not quite the innocent that he wishes to portray, as in the story of the hospitality of the Italian family. It is the innocent that we want to imagine that gained him such celebrity. He earned the right to the Hollywood treatment.Book Review: Namby Pamby Actor Contradicts His War History
Summary: 3 Stars
I'm 20 pages away from finishing "To Hell and Back." After Googling, still don't know who the ghost writer was.
Still mesmerized how such a daring infrantry man morphed to Hollywood and appeared on camera as such a wooz. In the book it's made clear that he didn't drink or smoke (despite his hard-scrabble youth), but geez.
Yes he was good-looking, but Hollywood made him into a boring goodie-two-shoes. Was it about, as usuall, $?
Book Review: Bad
Summary: 2 Stars
This is one of the corniest and poorly written books I have ever read. With GI Joe conversations and mentality, it boasts about American superiority in everything. The book doesn't even really describe Murphy himself, since the descriptions seem to focus on secondary characters. And how does Murphy know how many soldiers he incapacitated? What, did he carve notches in his gun? REAL soldiers aren't proud of how many people they killed. Anybody can pin a whole bunch of medals on somebody; they don't have to deserve it. Those medals could have gone to soldiers who really deserved them. This book is a joke. If you want REAL heroism, check out Ghost Soldiers or The Forgotten Soldier. Don't waste your time.Book Review: Bad
Summary: 2 Stars
This is one of the corniest and poorly written books I have ever read. With GI Joe conversations and mentality, it boasts about American superiority in everything. The book doesn't even really describe Murphy himself, since the descriptions seem to focus on secondary characters. And how does Murphy know how many soldiers he incapacitated? What, did he carve notches in his gun? REAL soldiers aren't proud of how many people they killed. Anybody can pin a whole bunch of medals on somebody; they don't have to deserve it. Those medals could have gone to soldiers who really deserved them. This book is a joke. If you want REAL heroism, check out Ghost Soldiers or The Forgotten Soldier. Don't waste your time.Book Review: Rubbish
Summary: 1 Stars
I am an ex-soldier of 13 years service with the Australian Army. I have seen active service and read many soldiers’ accounts of war. This book is truly awful. Poorly written (which is his editor’s fault), it attempts to glorify himself and war and includes a seemingly endless list of clumsily used clichés in an attempt to make the reader care about the characters, and fails miserably. The book aside, a hero - in the true sense of the word - Audie Murphy is not, a successful killer – absolutely, a sociopath – extremely likely. If you want to read a truly exceptional book written by a surviving soldier of WWII, then throw this book away and read Slaughterhouse 5, by Kurt Vonnegut.