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Title: Brave Men. by Ernest Taylor Pyle ISBN: 0-8371-7368-X Publisher: Greenwood Press Reprint Pub. Date: 15 August, 1974 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.92 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Best Journalist of the 20th Century
Comment: One of the first grown-up books I ever read was a tattered copy of Ernie Pyle's "Brave Men," derived from his articles written from Sicily to France, 1943-44. Pyle was a man's man of a journalist, and was loved by men and women of all ranks. People on the home front eagerly read his dispatches from fronts all over the world. Pyle wasn't interested in criticizing the government or military. He was man enough to realize that both make mistakes, but to harp on them was a disservice. His subject was the fighting man: low-ranking soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen and officers who did the dirty work. Men who drove mule trains up the Italian mountains and flew dive bombers over France. Men who strung telephone wires across North Africa and stormed the shores of Pacific islands. Men who manned anti-aircraft guns on ships and led platoons through the French bocage. He reported on the war with his wonderful prose and gift for storytelling until a sniper's bullet claimed him during the Okinawa campaign in 1945.
Ike and his top brass, once they understood how Pyle operated and once Pyle gained their trust, let Pyle go wherever he wanted and talk to whomever he wanted. They knew Pyle would never agonize over German and Japanese civilian casualties in order to appear "objective" and "balanced." They knew Pyle would never be waiting on the beaches before the troops even landed. They knew if Pyle ever found out about a secret operation he would keep his mouth shut and not blab about it to the world. It's doubtful today's crop of media darlings will produce an Ernie Pyle. In the quest for ratings, advertising dollars and careers, most of today's mainstream media ' especially the beltway crowd ' is incredibly selfish, whining, arrogant, ignorant and, ultimately, unpatriotic. Pyle is proof positive that a journalist can tell it like it is and still love his country at the same time.
Rating: 5
Summary: Relive the War
Comment: Ernie Pyle was a man who loved his job. He takes us to the soldiers who were fighting for us, and lets us know what it was like through close calls, boredom, dreams and ambitions of those ordinary men thrust into war that he came in contact with. He brings the humor and the tears of war and tells stories that we can all relate to to help us understand what it was truly like. His love for the common soldier is apparent throughout the entire book. He was, without a doubt, the greatest war correspondant of all time. This book and Here is Your War are required reading for anyone even remotely interested in WWII, as well as for anyone who just wants a good story.
Rating: 4
Summary: As Close as You Can Get
Comment: This book is as close as you can get to knowing what it was like to being in WWII. I found the book very interesting. Their were some very funny stories that made me chuckle; there were plenty of stories that made me realize how bad it really was over there in Europe. Ernie followed a lot of different "groups" in the Army, Army Airforce, and Navy. His writings flow very well. Once in a while there is a short column that made me wonder why did they include this in the book; it was if the publisher just "through" it in there just because; this is the reason for the 4 stars. It doesn't take long to realize why Ernie was so popular with "The Guys" and while they considered him, one of THEM!!!
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Title: Ernie Pyle's War: America's Eyewitness to World War II by James Tobin ISBN: 0700608974 Publisher: University Press of Kansas Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.25 |
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Title: Here Is Your War: Story of G.I. Joe by Ernie Pyle, Orr Kelly, Carol Johnson ISBN: 0803287771 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Up Front by Bill Mauldin, Stephen E. Ambrose ISBN: 0393050319 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: December, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Ernie's War: The Best of Ernie Pyle's World War II Dispatches by David Nichols ISBN: 0394549236 Publisher: Random House Inc Pub. Date: 01 September, 1986 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Here Is Your War by Ernie Pyle ISBN: 0405118694 Publisher: Ayer Co Pub Pub. Date: 01 June, 1979 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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