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Title: Typewriter Soldier by Ernie Pyle, Rudy Faircloth ISBN: 0-937866-04-0 Publisher: Atlantic Pub Co Pub. Date: June, 1982 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.30 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: The Feel of Americans in WWII
Comment: I've been reading Pyle's "Here is Your War," his accounts from the North African Campaign. It is easy to see why Pyle was beloved not just by the soldiers (especially the infantrymen) but by the folks at home too.
Pyle was not shy in telling readers he was never big on going on "heroic" missions just so he could write about them. He would pass on opportunities to stick his neck way out. But Pyle was always ready to go along with the troops, and if that meant being shot at, strafed, or shelled, he just hung on with the rest of the fellows. Pyle made it clear to the readers that the real heroism was being there and sticking it out, not the particular feats of bravery that garnered the headlines and the medals. He showed all the guys (and all the gals; Pyle's second love were the ladies in the uniforms) were heroes and he told the folks at home why.
I would recommend any of Pyle's books and a copy of Bill Mauldin's WWII cartoons of Willie and Joe (Mauldin's cartoon versions of GI infantrymen that Pyle loved the most) as the very best way to introduce a young person to the Americans in World War II. They provide the feel, of the life and the death, the humor and sadness. Without that feel it is very hard to give the history much real meaning.
Colonel Frank Stech, PhD USAR
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