Audie Murphy, American Soldier

COLONEL HAROLD B. SIMPSON

Publication: The Hill Jr College Press, 1975, Hillsboro

First edition. 4to. Inscribed and dated on the half-title page by the author and by Corinne Murphy Burns, the oldest sister of Audie Murphy. Red cloth, xv [blank], 466 pp., frontispiece (a color montage of military awards won by Murphy), introduction, author's preface, acknowledgements, illustrated, (many from photographs), portraits, maps, footnotes, appendices, bibliography, index. A biography of America's most decorated soldier of World War II, who later starred in many movies. He died tragically in an airplane crash on May 28, 1971. Small (about the size of a dime), stain to front cover, else a fine copy in dust jacket, lightly soiled on the rear panel.