Sgt. York - His Life, Legend & Legacy

Subtitle: The Remarkable Untold Story of Sergeant Alvin C. York

 

About the Title: Idolized by millions, awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, Sergeant Alvin C. York returned from the battlefields of France to a hero's welcome. Refusing offers from Hollywood and Vaudeville, he turned his back on half a million dollars and went home to the hills of Tennessee saying, "Uncle Sam's uniform ain't for sale."

 

During the war, when faced with more than two dozen German machine guns all alone in the Argonne Forest, York had no time for heroic choices. He had to fight. His true hero's choice came later; in denying himself a life of ease and luxury to battle for rural education and Christian ideals against self-serving politicians, scheming businessmen, jealous adversaries, Hollywood hucksterism, and the IRS.

 

Here, for the first time, is the complete story of America's greatest twentieth-century Christian patriot, based on new interviews with his children and other family members, Hollywood film archives, and York's own war diary and correspondence. His story is one of struggle, sacrifice, and ultimate triumph in the service of his mountain people, his beloved country and his God. Illustrated with 16 pages of photographs from the York family album!

Copyright: 1997