Ernie Pyle's war

America's eyewitness to World War II

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Ernie Pyle's war

America's eyewitness to World War II

When a machine-gun bullet ended the life of war correspondent Ernie Pyle in the final days of World War II, Americans mourned him in the same breath as they mourned Franklin Roosevelt. To millions, the loss of this American folk hero seemed nearly and great as the loss of the wartime president.

If the hidden horrors and valor of combat persist at all in the public mind, it is because of those writers who watched it and recorded it in the faith that war is too important to be confined to the private memories of the warriors. Above all these writers, Ernie Pyle towered as a giant. Through his words ad his compassion, Americans everywhere gleaned their understanding of what they came to call "The Good War.".

Pyle walked a troubled path to fame. Though insecure and anxious, he created a carefree and kindly public image in his popular prewar column - all the while struggling with inner demons and a tortured marriage. War, in fact, offered Pyle an escape hatch from his own personal hell.

It also offered him a subject precisely suited to his talent - a shrewd understanding of human nature, an unmatched eye for detail, a profound capacity to identify with the suffering soldiers whom he adopted as his own, and a plain yet poetic style reminiscent of Mark Twain and Will Rogers.

These he brought to bear on the Battle of Britain and all the great American campaigns of the war - North Africa, Sicily, Italy, D-Day and Normandy, the liberation of Paris, and finally Okinawa, where he felt compelled to go because of his enormous public stature despite premonitions of death.

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Publisher
Free Press
Language
English
Pages
312

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Ernie Pyle's war: America's eyewitness to World War II
1999, G.K. Hall
in English
Cover of: Ernie Pyle's war
Ernie Pyle's war: America's eyewitness to World War II
1998, University Press of Kansas
in English
Cover of: Ernie Pyle's war
Ernie Pyle's war: America's eyewitness to World War II
1997, Free Press
in English

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
070.4/333/092, B
Library of Congress
PN4874.P88 T63 1997, PN4874.P88 T63 2006, PN 4874 P88 T63 1997, PN4874.P88T63 1997

The Physical Object

Pagination
312 p. :
Number of pages
312

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL660765M
Internet Archive
erniepyleswarame0000tobi
ISBN 10
0684836424
LCCN
97006165, 2006284555
OCLC/WorldCat
36343423
Library Thing
999487
Goodreads
1507725

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