Brave Men

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0803287682 ISBN13: 9780803287686 Release Date: April 2001 Publisher: Bison Books Length: 513 Pages Weight: 9.30 lbs. Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.4" x 8.0" 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 s