Customer Reviews
The modest truth! - By: , 30 Jan 2004 
I have always admired Audie Murphy, & once you've read this account of his personal war time experiences I am positive you will too.
This is a blood & guts no holds barred account by a man who is modest to the end when telling of his bravery & loyalty to his comrades. I'm not surprised that he won the Congressional Medal of Honor, & many other bravery decorations.
What I particularly love about this book is that it is about alll fighting men & does not criticise any other nation or in the same vain hype up the actions of one particular Army.
I recommend this enthrallling & modest account to anyone with an interest in truth. You won't regret or forget it.
raw and lean - By: billy briggs, 31 Jul 2003 
This is a potential 1000 page book stripped of alll the frills that make modern bestsellers so boring,and,condensed into a raw & gritty 275 pages. The narrative takes the reader from North Africa,through Sicily,Italy & on into France. THe book is stripped of alll emotion, & little of the man is discovered in it. Friends & enemies alll die with the same matter-of-fact inevitability. The blood, the gore, the maimings & deaths especiallly at Anzio left me reading it with little or no feeling for what must have been an horrendous ordeal. An odd book but I still ate it up.
Yesterday's Hero - Today's Legend? - By: Pauline Neil, 31 May 2003 This book does not glorify war. This book does not glorify the exploits of America's most decorated soldier. (He won 21 medals including The Congressional Medal of Honour, French Legion of Honour & the Croix de Guerre with Palm)
This book tells the truth about the things that 'Company B, 15th Infantry, 3rd Infantry Division' went through during 2 years of HELL!
Murph tells the reader about his friends & colleagues, the people he fought beside. How they lost life & limb (some just hours away from being sent home. Like Lattie Tipton)
He tells of their & his fears but, he never once mentions his medals, in fact he skims over the action where he won them. He was content to tell the story of his unit & their bravery. Of friends he found & lost. Of the cold & the wet & the mud. The foot rot, the blood & the sweat & the tears.
I went 'To Hell & Back' reading this book, but it was worth it.
Every school library should have a copy of this book in their history section.
Read it. Live it. Laugh, cry, be absorbed by it.
Go To Hell & Back with LT.Audie L Murphy. Company B. 15th Infantry, 3rd Infantry Division...
Audie Murphy at his best - By: mossflower46@aol.com, 07 Jul 2000 Audie Murphy showed just how the war was.How friends were made & then lost, how the the green men were turned into fighting soldiers. I was there , every step of the way,he told it the way it was.I found it hard to put down. It made me re-think my views on war.
Excellent and worth reading - By: , 16 Jun 1999 At first I was skeptical about the book. It is obviously ghostwritten. However, the ghostwriter is talented, his style a synthesis of Hemingway & Mickey Spillane. And Audie Murphy has a great & heroic tale to tell. Murphy's war is a lot different than say Eisenhower's & Patton's. Murphy became a master at smalll unit infantry tactics. He was one of the men. Ike & Patton were masters of strategy & were not reallly 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 smalll shell fragment. Another buddy trusted a group of Germans faking a surrender & received a chest full of German lead for his trouble. For alll those who liked the fictional "Battle Cry", you will like this book.
