To Hell and Back
To Hell and Back: Book Report
Lt. Audie L. Murphy’s name is recognized by many people of America because of many things he did during WWII that were pretty unreal in so many ways in such a bloody war. He was a great role model of leadership and followed all of the seven Army Values, Loyalty, Duty, Respect, Selfless Service, Honor, Integrity and Courage. He was a role model for every soldier to look up to and follow as a figurehead of what it means to be a soldier, Murphy overcame every obstacle that he was ever up against and was able to conquer every challenge he ever faced in the middle of the worst battles in history, like Anzio. In his book “To Hell and Back”, he wrote about everything it takes to follow these characteristics that will encourage anyone who reads to do great things in whatever they do especially if they want to go into service for America, the words still connect to soldiers today.
His autobiography doesn’t start off in the beginning of his life as a poor farmer or even look at his childhood at all from his home Hunt County, Texas. It’s not a normal autobiography that just states facts and opinions in some chronological order, it’s a story told by himself. It starts where he was really trying to get into the army when he was a teenager, so eager to get on the battlefield. Spending months in the Third Infantry Division in North Africa, Casablanca, Morocco, training for his break into the real war, he finally got it in the orders for his Division to participate in the assault on Sicily on July 10, 1943 and eventually into Italy to drive German forces back into Germany where they would for sure be defeated. He expressed every emotion and all the excitement that a young ignorant teen would express entering into battle, but soon his happy emotions would be replaced with coldness, making him act like a robot in dialogue and fear he bottled up the whole time. Of course murphy rose above every emotion to stand out during the action and do what was
Lt. Audie L. Murphy’s name is recognized by many people of America because of many things he did during WWII that were pretty unreal in so many ways in such a bloody war. He was a great role model of leadership and followed all of the seven Army Values, Loyalty, Duty, Respect, Selfless Service, Honor, Integrity and Courage. He was a role model for every soldier to look up to and follow as a figurehead of what it means to be a soldier, Murphy overcame every obstacle that he was ever up against and was able to conquer every challenge he ever faced in the middle of the worst battles in history, like Anzio. In his book “To Hell and Back”, he wrote about everything it takes to follow these characteristics that will encourage anyone who reads to do great things in whatever they do especially if they want to go into service for America, the words still connect to soldiers today.
His autobiography doesn’t start off in the beginning of his life as a poor farmer or even look at his childhood at all from his home Hunt County, Texas. It’s not a normal autobiography that just states facts and opinions in some chronological order, it’s a story told by himself. It starts where he was really trying to get into the army when he was a teenager, so eager to get on the battlefield. Spending months in the Third Infantry Division in North Africa, Casablanca, Morocco, training for his break into the real war, he finally got it in the orders for his Division to participate in the assault on Sicily on July 10, 1943 and eventually into Italy to drive German forces back into Germany where they would for sure be defeated. He expressed every emotion and all the excitement that a young ignorant teen would express entering into battle, but soon his happy emotions would be replaced with coldness, making him act like a robot in dialogue and fear he bottled up the whole time. Of course murphy rose above every emotion to stand out during the action and do what was