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The Rifle: Combat Stories from Americas Last WWII Veterans, Told Through an M1 Garand Audiobook, by Andrew Biggio Play Audiobook Sample

The Rifle: Combat Stories from America's Last WWII Veterans, Told Through an M1 Garand Audiobook

The Rifle: Combat Stories from Americas Last WWII Veterans, Told Through an M1 Garand Audiobook, by Andrew Biggio Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Shawn Compton Publisher: Tantor Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 6.00 hours at 1.5x Speed 4.50 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: June 2021 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781705298626

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

23

Longest Chapter Length:

48:55 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

01:43 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

23:38 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

2

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Publisher Description

It all started because of a rifle.

The Rifle is the inspirational story of a twenty-eight-year-old US Marine, Andrew Biggio, who returned home from combat in Afghanistan and Iraq, full of questions about the price of war. He found answers from those who survived the costliest war of all—WWII veterans.

It began when Biggio bought a 1945 M1 Garand Rifle, the most common rifle used in WWII, to honor his great uncle, a US Army soldier who died on the hills of the Italian countryside. When Biggio showed the gun to his neighbor, WWII veteran Corporal Joseph Drago, it unlocked memories Drago had kept unspoken for fifty years. On the spur of the moment, Biggio asked Drago to sign the rifle. Thus began this Marine’s mission to find as many WWII veterans as he could, get their signatures on the rifle, and document their stories.

For two years, Biggio traveled across the country to interview America’s last-living WWII veterans. Each time he put the M1 Garand Rifle in their hands, their eyes lit up with memories triggered by holding the weapon that had been with them every step of the war. With each visit and every story told to Biggio, the veterans signed their names to the rifle. Ninety-six signatures now cover that rifle, each a reminder of the price of war and the courage of our soldiers.

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  • Overall Performance: 5 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 5 Narration Rating: 5 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 5 Story Rating: 5 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 5

    — VERY DISAPPOINTED, 9/16/2023

About Andrew Biggio

Andrew Biggio is a United States Marine Corps Infantry Sergeant and serves on the police force in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan and serves as president of New England’s Wounded Veterans, Inc., a nonprofit which supports wounded veterans. He holds a master’s degree in homeland security from Northeastern University in Boston.