Ernie Pyle's War
America's Eyewitness to World War II
$55.15
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2006
Summary
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 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 t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780743284769 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0743284763 |
| Author: | James Tobin |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2006 |
| Weight: | 329g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 140mm x 214mm |
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Critics Review
“This is the portrait of a complex, enormously gifted but tortured writer … but it is much more: few books about combat journalism have so vividly depicted the fascinating interactions between war correspondents, soldiers and folks back home… . World War II was quintessentially Ernie Pyle’s war, and Mr. Tobin brilliantly explains why.” – The New York Times Book Review
“James Tobin’s magnificent new biography of Pyle should do much to renew the luster of his name and revive interest in his extraordinary work… . This clear-eyed, unsentimental, beautifully written biography is a classic worthy of the man it celebrates.” – The Cleveland Plain Dealer
“What makes this biography so fascinating … is the story of Pyle himself, a man seemingly driven by demons and nagged by self-doubt who accomplished so much… . Anyone with an interest in the power of the written word will be intrigued – and will lament that Pyle was the sort of character unlikely to be seen again.” – The Philadelphia Inquirer
“Barely a half century ago Ernie Pyle was one of the most famous people in America … both the chronicler of the common man and its embodiment. Now, five decades after his death from Japanese fire on a small island in the Pacific, Pyle has had the good fortune to fall under the scrutiny of a sympathetic, unsentimental and scrupulous biographer… . The result is a thorough, revealing book.” – The Washington Post Book World
James Tobin
James Tobin won the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography for Ernie Pyle’s War and the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award for To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight. Educated at the University of Michigan, where he earned a PhD in history, he teaches narrative nonfiction in the Department of Media, Journalism, and Film at Miami University in Oxford, OH.
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