Against All Odds

*The instant New York Times bestseller* The untold story of four of the most decorated soldiers of World War IIΓÇöall Medal of Honor recipientsΓÇöfrom the beaches of French Morocco to HitlerΓÇÖs own mountaintop fortress,by the national bestselling author of The First Wave ΓÇ£Pitch-perfect.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöThe Wall Street Journal ΓÇó ΓÇ£Riveting.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöWorld War II magazine ΓÇó ΓÇ£Alex Kershaw is the master of putting the reader in the heat of the action.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöMartin Dugard As the Allies raced to defeat Hitlerfour menall in the same unitearned medal after medal for battlefield heroism. Maurice ΓÇ£FootsieΓÇ¥ Britta former professional football playerbecame the very first American to receive every award for valor in a single war. Michael Daly was a West Point dropout who risked his neck over and over to keep his men alive. Keith Ware would one day become the first and only draftee in history to attain the rank of general before serving in Vietnam. In WWIIWare owed his life to the finest soldier he ever commandeda baby-faced Texan named Audie Murphy. In the campaign to liberate Europeeach would gain the ultimate accoladethe Congressional Medal of Honor. Tapping into personal interviews and a wealth of primary source materialAlex Kershaw has delivered his most gripping account yet of American couragespanning more than six hundred days of increasingly merciless combatfrom the deserts of North Africa to the dark heart of Nazi Germany. Once the guns fell silentthese four exceptional warriors would discover just how heavy the Medal of Honor could beΓÇöand how great the expectations associated with it. Having survived against all oddswho among them would finally find peace?