You Don't Lose 'Til You Quit Trying: Lessons on Adversity and Victory from a Vietnam Veteran and Medal of Honor Recipient
Language: English
Published by Dutton Caliber, 2035
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- Title
- You Don't Lose 'Til You Quit Trying: Lessons on Adversity and Victory from a Vietnam Veteran and Medal of Honor Recipient
- Author
- Sammy Lee Davis (Author), Caroline Lambert (Author), Gary Sinise (Foreword)
- Publisher
- Dutton Caliber
- Publication year
- 2035
- Condition
- Very Good
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0425283046
- ISBN 13
- 9780425283042
On November 18, 1967, twenty-one-year-old Private First Class Davis’s artillery unit was hit by a massive enemy offensive. Soon he would have a perforated kidney, crushed ribs, a broken vertebra, ripped flesh from beehive darts, a bullet in his thigh, and burns all over his body. Ignoring his injuries, he manned a two-ton howitzer by himself, crossed a canal under heavy fire to rescue three wounded American soldiers, and kept fighting until the enemy retreated. His heroism that day earned him a Medal of Honor.
You Don’t Lose ’Til You Quit Trying chronicles how his childhood in the American heartland prepared him for the worst night of his life—and how that night set off a lifelong battle against debilitating injuries, the effects of Agent Orange, and an America that was turning on its veterans.
But he also battled for his fellow veterans, speaking on their behalf for forty years to help heal the wounds and memorialize the brotherhood that war could forge. Here, readers will learn of Sammy Davis’s extraordinary life—the courage, the pain, and the triumph.
INCLUDES PHOTOS AND A NEW CHAPTER ON THE AUTHOR'S FIRST TRIP BACK TO VIETNAM SINCE THE WAR
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About the Author
Caroline Lambert is a freelance writer and award-winning former journalist.While a staff writer and then Johannesburg bureau chief for The Economist, she reported from Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, and Zimbabwe, among others. She is the coauthor of Oil to Cash, and holds an MA in international relations from the Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies and an MBA from INSEAD.
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