Painstakingly researched and profusely illustrated, DUTY, HONOR, VICTORY tells the stories of the well-known athletes whose onfield exploits brought another type of fame, but whose battlefield duty has been long overlooked. Here is football's Chuck Bednarik flying bombing missions over Germany, baseball's Bob Feller commanding an anti-aircraft gun crew aboard the USS Alabama; Warren Spahn wounded and nearly killed when the bridge at Remagen collapses, or Yogi Berra on a rocket boat in Normandy. Here are boxer Gene Tunney, ballplayer Bert Shepard. Winter Olympic athletes in the famed 10th Mountain Division, black athletes in the Tuskegee Airmen.Duty Honor Victory covers all sports, from tennis, golf, baseball, football, basketball, baseball, the well-know professionals, the lesser known college athletes, and the who toiled in obscurity, but they all performed their duty extraordinarily,DUTY, HONOR, VICTORY covers world War II from the origins of nazi Germany and Imperial Japan in the 1930s through their defeats in 1945-and extends into 1946 and the integration of major league baseball.DUTY, HONOR, VICTORY covers the well-known to the lesser known, all sharing of love of competition that served them well in battle: Dizzy Dean, Larry Doby, Enos Slaughter, Monte Irvin, Pee Wee Reese, Art Donnovan, Pete Gray, Jackie Robinson, Gil Hodges, Hoyt Wilhelm, Emlen Tunnel, and scores of others. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.