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A stirring oral history of the nation's Medal of Honor winners interviews twenty-four men who earned the honor through extraordinary acts of valor on the battlefield. 25,000 first printing.
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About the Author
Larry Smith is a veteran editor with the New York Times and Parade magazine, where he was managing editor. Former president of the Overseas Press Club of America, he lives in Norwalk, Connecticut. Eddie Adams is a nationally renowned, Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer.
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This collection of interviews with recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor, the military's highest recognition for valor, will benefit from cross-promotion on the cover of Parade, the Sunday newspaper magazine. Two dozen men from various races and walks of life talk about their battlefield experiences here. All exhibit a marked modesty about receiving their medals, as they uniformly regard their fighting actions as unexceptional under fearsome, noisy, blood-spattered conditions. They emphasize instead the men who didn't survive--a high proportion of Medals of Honor have been conferred posthumously--while expressing mild incredulity at being singled out for distinction. Nevertheless, the do-or-die details Smith induces from his interlocutors convey a quality of bravery beyond, as the citations state, the call of duty--nobody stages a bayonet charge, as Lewis Millett did in Korea, just because he is ordered to. A visceral volume that will arrest readers of military affairs. Gilbert Taylor
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- PublisherW W Norton & Co Inc
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 039305134X
- ISBN 13 9780393051346
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages320
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