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Title: Take a Rifle from a Dead Man
Author: Larry Matthews
Narrator: Larry Matthews
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-20-14
Publisher: Larry Matthews
Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense
Publisher's Summary:
Paul Brite's extraordinary life took him through every major event of the 20th Century in the United States with the exception of World War One.
In the thirties he rode the rails as a teenager during the Great Depression to escape the grinding poverty of the rural South. To survive, he worked as a cowboy and as a bouncer in a whorehouse.
In the forties he fought across France, survived the Battle of the Bulge, and took part in the liberation of a Nazi concentration camp. He was part of one of the most brutal acts by American troops against SS guards.
In the fifties he survived the bitter Battle of the Chosin Reservoir, the most horrific battle of the Korean War, and barely made it out with his life.
He worked as a field agent for Army Intelligence in Germany during the darkest days of the Cold War and went behind the Iron Curtain to spy on Soviet forces that were arrayed against America and its allies in Western Europe.
In the sixties, he ran intelligence to the Marines in Vietnam, often shooting his way past Viet Cong snipers.
What he could not do was live a normal life and, in the end, it killed him.
Take a Rifle from A Dead Man is a novel of one man's extraordinary life. It is based on a true story.
Members Reviews:
Take A Rifle from a Dead Man..........
This book is not the usual genre that I read, having said that, I believe it's important, because it describes the life of a man from childhood to his death. From abject poverty to success in his field of endeavor, he accomplished the objectives set before him.
From the hills of rural Alabama, through a 30 year career in the military ending in a top enlisted position in the US army, and finally retirement in Arizona with his beloved wife, to his death, his story is enthralling. Based on the true story of the author's father's, there is no attempt to whitewash characters or facts...it is a remarkable rendition of facts and some suppositions about a member of "the greatest generation" and the efforts and sacrifices they made to give their children what we now have and are in danger of losing.
Read,, enjoy and think about it.
Combat Stress
The novel, Take a Rifle from a Dead Man, traces the life of Paul Brite, from his hardscrabble beginnings as the son of dirt poor and vicious father and emotionally crippled mother, through his escape from them as a teenager and brutal life as a hobo, bouncer, and cow puncher, to his army career. He fights in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam before a retirement racked by ill health and combat memories so real that they dwarf his quest for a normal life.
For any veteran who has faced combat and for his loved ones, Briteâs story will ring too familiar. The prose is galvanizing, the images too close to home. But the book does the work of literature, expressing for us thoughts we cannot express for ourselves, and offering us the catharsis only finely wrought tragedy can bring. Take the time to suffer with Paul Brite and come out of his story at peace.
âTom Glenn, author of Friendly Casualties and No-Accounts
The Cost of Combat
In "Take a Rifle from a Dead Man," Larry Matthews applies his considerable fictional skills to narrating his father's non-fictional life.
