At Home With Ernie Pyle

Author : Edited and with an Introduction by Owen V. Johnson. Ernie Pyle
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780253019110

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At Home with Ernie Pyle by Edited and with an Introduction by Owen V. Johnson. Ernie Pyle Pdf

As anyone who has read his legendary WWII reporting knows, Ernie Pyle had an uncanny ability to connect with his readers, seeking out stories about the common people with whom he felt a special bond. A master of word painting, Pyle honed the skills that would win him a 1944 Pulitzer Prize for his battlefront reporting by traveling across America, writing columns about the people and places he encountered. At Home with Ernie Pyle celebrates Pyle’s Indiana roots, gathering for the first time his writings about the state and its people. These stories preserve a vivid cultural memory of his time. In them, we discover the Ernie Pyle who was able to find a piece of home wherever he wandered. By focusing on his family and the lives of people in and from the Hoosier state, Pyle was able to create a multifaceted picture of the state as it slowly transformed from a mostly rural, agrarian society to a modern, industrial one. Here is the record of a special time and place created by a master craftsman, whose work remains vividly alive three quarters of a century later.

Author : Ernie Pyle
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781667623610

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Here Is Your War by Ernie Pyle Pdf

A wonderful and enduring tribute to American troops in the Second World War, Here Is Your War is Ernie Pyle’s story of the soldiers’ first campaign against the enemy in North Africa. With unequaled humanity and insight, Pyle tells how people from a cross-section of America—ranches, inner cities, small mountain farms, and college towns—learned to fight a war.

Author : James Tobin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780684864693

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Ernie Pyles War by James Tobin Pdf

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 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 “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. In this immensely engrossing biography, affectionate yet critical, journalist and historian James Tobin does an Ernie Pyle job on Ernie Pyle, evoking perfectly the life and labors of this strange, frail, bald little man whose love/hate relationship to war mirrors our own. Based on dozens of interviews and copious research in little-known archives, Ernie Pyle's War is a self-effacing tour de force. To read it is to know Ernie Pyle, and most of all, to know his war.

Author : Ernie Pyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Home Country by Ernie Pyle Pdf

Author : Ernie Pyle
Publisher : Touchstone
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015017701098

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Ernie's War by Ernie Pyle Pdf

For all readers, especially those whose only of World War II may be from textbooks or films, Ernie's War offers a revealing, poignant look at the actual experiences of the average foot soldier swept into the tumult of battle. 9 black-and-white photographs.

Author : Ernie Pyle
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787203662

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Brave Men [Illustrated Edition] by Ernie Pyle Pdf

Includes over 150 images recording the career of Ernie Pyle from childhood to Ie Shima. Europe was in the throes of World War II, and when America joined the fighting, Ernie Pyle went along. Long before television beamed daily images of combat into our living rooms, Pyle’s on-the-spot reporting gave the American public a firsthand view of what war was like for the boys on the front. Pyle followed the soldiers into the trenches, battlefields, field hospitals, and beleaguered cities of Europe. What he witnessed he described with a clarity, sympathy, and grit that gave the public back home an immediate sense of the foot soldier’s experience. There were really two wars, John Steinbeck wrote in Time magazine: one of maps and logistics, campaigns, ballistics, divisions, and regiments and the other a “war of the homesick, weary, funny, violent, common men who wash their socks in their helmets, complain about the food, whistle at Arab girls, or any girls for that matter, and bring themselves through as dirty a business as the world has ever seen and do it with humor and dignity and courage—and that is Ernie Pyle’s war.” This collection of Pyle’s columns detailing the fighting in Europe in 1943-44 brings that war—and the living, and dying, moments of history—home to us once again.-Print ed. “This angle of reporting brought the front-line war back to the families of those serving in the armed forces and endeared Pyle to the troops. An essential piece of Americana for all collections.”—Library Journal “[A] classic of modern journalism.”—Kirkus Reviews

Author : Ernie Pyle
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786254665

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Last Chapter by Ernie Pyle Pdf

“No man in this war has so well told the story of the American fighting man as American fighting men wanted it told,” wrote Harry Truman. “He deserves the gratitude of all his countrymen.” THIS is the final book of Ernie Pyle’s war reporting. After Africa, Italy, and D-Day on the European continent, Pyle took it the hard way again. There was still the Pacific war to win, and where the fighting was Ernie had to go, soul-sick though he was with the thousands of scenes of death and destruction he had already witnessed. He was attached to the Navy early in 1945. In the Marianas first and then living with the boys who flew the B-29s over the Japanese homeland, Pyle was experiencing a side of the war that was new to him. Next he joined an aircraft carrier on the invasion of Okinawa. He made the landing with the Marines and saw Okinawa secured. Then his luck ran out. A Japanese bullet killed Ernie Pyle on April 17th, 1945 on Ie Shima, and Americans lost their greatest and best-loved correspondent. Millions mourned the going of this modest man who wrote of the war with all honesty and no pretensions, and whose writings will stand as one of the most vital records of the struggle. LAST CHAPTER is a brief, brave little book to complete that record permanently. There is a sixteen-page picture section and an index of names and places.

Author : Ernie Pyle
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0679731776

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Ernie's America by Ernie Pyle Pdf

Author : Ernie Pyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9798869093127

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Ernie Pyle in England by Ernie Pyle Pdf

Ernie Pyle in England, first published in 1941, is the account of the journalist's stay in England, Scotland and Wales during the height of the German bombing blitz on London and other cities of the United Kingdom. Pyle, one of the most famous correspondents of the Second World War, had an easy-going, 'folksy'-style of writing, making the book an enjoyable yet informative read about the conditions he encountered. His descriptions of the effects of the bombing, nights spent in air raid shelters, food- and gas-rationing, and daily life in London remain classic pieces of war-time reporting. Pyle would later report from Europe, Africa, and the Pacific, with his accounts appearing in some 300 American newspapers. Sadly, near the end of the war (on April 18, 1945), Pyle was hit by Japanese machine-gun fire on the island of Ieshima (northwest of Okinawa). He was 44 at the time of his death.

Author : Richard Melzer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0865342431

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Ernie Pyle in the American Southwest by Richard Melzer Pdf

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author : Ernie Pyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:39015008827316

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Home Country by Ernie Pyle Pdf

A collection from the author's newspapers columns written between 1935 and 1940.

Author : Elizabeth D. Samet
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780374716127

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Looking for the Good War by Elizabeth D. Samet Pdf

“A remarkable book, from its title and subtitle to its last words . . . A stirring indictment of American sentimentality about war.” —Robert G. Kaiser, The Washington Post In Looking for the Good War, Elizabeth D. Samet reexamines the literature, art, and culture that emerged after World War II, bringing her expertise as a professor of English at West Point to bear on the complexity of the postwar period in national life. She exposes the confusion about American identity that was expressed during and immediately after the war, and the deep national ambivalence toward war, violence, and veterans—all of which were suppressed in subsequent decades by a dangerously sentimental attitude toward the United States’ “exceptional” history and destiny. Samet finds the war's ambivalent legacy in some of its most heavily mythologized figures: the war correspondent epitomized by Ernie Pyle, the character of the erstwhile G.I. turned either cop or criminal in the pulp fiction and feature films of the late 1940s, the disaffected Civil War veteran who looms so large on the screen in the Cold War Western, and the resurgent military hero of the post-Vietnam period. Taken together, these figures reveal key elements of postwar attitudes toward violence, liberty, and nation—attitudes that have shaped domestic and foreign policy and that respond in various ways to various assumptions about national identity and purpose established or affirmed by World War II. As the United States reassesses its roles in Afghanistan and the Middle East, the time has come to rethink our national mythology: the way that World War II shaped our sense of national destiny, our beliefs about the use of American military force throughout the world, and our inability to accept the realities of the twenty-first century’s decades of devastating conflict.

Author : David Chrisinger
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781421440804

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Stories Are What Save Us by David Chrisinger Pdf

A foreword by former soldier and memoirist Brian Turner, author of My Life as a Foreign Country, and an afterword by military wife and memoirist Angela Ricketts, author of No Man's War: Irreverent Confessions of an Infantry Wife, bookend the volume.

Author : John C. Decker,Pete DiPrimio,Doug Wilson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780253036193

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Unknown, Untold, and Unbelievable Stories of IU Sports by John C. Decker,Pete DiPrimio,Doug Wilson Pdf

For over 125 years, Hoosier athletes and coaches have grabbed headlines with their accomplishments and accolades. Legendary performers and larger-than-life figures have called Bloomington home, and their stories have been passed down through generations. But for every classic tale about a Hoosier athlete, coach, or program, there's another that's been forgotten. Until now. After gaining unprecedented access to IU archives and longtime employees, authors John Decker, Pete DiPrimio, and Doug Wilson reveal events and images that were lost for decades. Filled with new and entertaining stories of the people who have made IU Athletics legendary, Unknown, Untold, and Unbelievable Stories of IU Sports is a must-have for any fan. Discover behind-the-scenes stories of the Olympic Trials featuring Michael Jordan, Patrick Ewing, Chris Mullin, and Steve Alford; the infamous 1997 black football jerseys; Ernie Pyle's outlandish automobile polo match to raise funds for the IU marching band; A. J. Moye's notorious block against Duke; the time Sam Bell won the bid for an NCAA track meet—without a facility or even bleachers; and many more incredible stories from the renowned IU Athletics program.

Author : Ernie Pyle
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547657651

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Gatlinburg and the Great Smokies by Ernie Pyle Pdf

"Gatlinburg and the Great Smokies" by Ernie Pyle. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.