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• catalog abstract "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.".
• catalog contributor b10372801.
• catalog created "c1997.".
• catalog date "1997".
• catalog date "c1997.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "Prologue: And so it is over -- I wanted to get out -- A nice little column -- A slightly used secondhand man -- In it to the hilt -- I'll just drift with the war -- The number one correspondent -- The ghastly brotherhood -- An awful knowledge -- You alone are left alive -- The Pyle phenomenon -- An end to this wandering -- Epilogue: What I see -- Appendix: An Ernie Pyle sampler.".
• catalog description "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.".
• catalog extent "312 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Ernie Pyle's war.".
• catalog identifier "0684836424 (alk. Paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Ernie Pyle's war.".
• catalog issued "1997".
• catalog issued "c1997.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Free Press,".
• catalog relation "Ernie Pyle's war.".
• catalog spatial "United States".
• catalog subject "070.4/333/092 B 21".
• catalog subject "PN4874.P88 T63 1997".
• catalog subject "Pyle, Ernie, 1900-1945.".
• catalog subject "War correspondents United States Biography.".
• catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 Journalists.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Prologue: And so it is over -- I wanted to get out -- A nice little column -- A slightly used secondhand man -- In it to the hilt -- I'll just drift with the war -- The number one correspondent -- The ghastly brotherhood -- An awful knowledge -- You alone are left alive -- The Pyle phenomenon -- An end to this wandering -- Epilogue: What I see -- Appendix: An Ernie Pyle sampler.".
• catalog title "Ernie Pyle's war : America's eyewitness to World War II / James Tobin.".
• catalog type "Biography. fast".
• catalog type "text".