Ernie Pyle's War: America's Eyewitness to World War II
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| Rating | : | 4.99 (501 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0743284763 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-11 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Read his books" according to Eagletree. I have nothing but praise for everything that man did and wrote, he had numerous opportunities to opt out of the horror, but he kept going, and made a very important difference. I totally enjoyed his books. If you are a follower of WWII memoirs, these are the starting point. I only wish people who think they understand the . A tribute to Ernie Pyle I first became aware of Ernie Pyle as a young lad when I ran across a dusty old paperback in my grandparents attic. I voraciously devoured each page only to be saddened when I realized he never made it home from the war.Here is a wonderful tribute to Ernie and his easy going manner mirrored with his elequent style of writin. Compassionate, compelling, masterfully crafted reader Aside from the subject, which is covered with a journalist's thoroughness and an historian's scope, the writing is tender and evocative. I am a fiction reader normally, but I have found in this book an author wielding a gratifying touch with language. Ernie Pyle would admire this thoughtful student of his career. A wonderfu
. More than just a biography, Ernie Pyle's War is also a study of war, and the peculiar, twilight world of suffering and half-told truths to which men like Ernie Pyle were drawn. James Tobin, author of the impressive biography Ernie Pyle's War, does not deny that his subject often smoothed the jagged facts of war, but he provides both the context--an era and a war in which correspondents were expected to be "team players" who helped their side to win hearts and minds at home--and the personal conflict raised for Pyle by the often irreconcilable demands of telling the truth and building morale.
To millions, the loss of this American folk hero seemed nearly as 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 and his compassion, Americans everywhere gleaned their understanding of what they came to call