Sgt. York his life, legend, and legacy By John Perry, Chapters 1 and 2

     Chapter one's name is Three Hours and Fifteen Minutes. To those who have not read it yet, the title would seem kind of vague.  However, it is quite direct and is right on the dot. The reason why is that chapter one is about how York single evenhandedly captured 129 German and Prussian troops.  Not only that but, this all happened behind enemy lines and he was faced against 15 machine-gun nests during this.  It was quite amazing that he "Teche'ed off" that many gunners at the same time while they were firing at him, and even then, he was laying in a prone position the entire time.  My favorite quote from this chapter is a quote that York gives when he looked back upon the occurrence "You know, the Germans couldn't see me in the gun sights because I was so close to them, so they had to stick their heads out to see me, and let's just say that the Germans have much bigger heads than the tiny heads that turkeys have back home, So it was real easy to tech'em off...".
     Chapter two is called The Sixth Commandment.  It is called this because the entire chapter is dedicated to the religious struggle with York.  York was a very committed man, so when the government sent out letters to every able-bodied man in the U.S., York struggled deeply over the sixth commandment which says not to kill.  The chapter goes on to describe his struggle, but eventually he works out that if you have to kill in order to get peace, then God would support him with the killing he did. This, however, did not affect his mercy.  As in the first chapter with the 129 captives, he brought them to headquarters instead of just killing them on the spot.  He only killed when he had to.