Bibliograph

Ernie Pyle in the American Southwest, Richard Melzer

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Ernie Pyle in the American Southwest, Richard Melzer

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Ernie Pyle in the American Southwest

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Richard Melzer

Summary

Ernie Pyle ranks with Richard Harding Davis, John Reed and Edward R. Murrow as one of the greatest war correspondents in American history. But he was different from all the correspondents who went before him or followed him in the combat zones of the world. While the others reported on the big picture of troop movements and massive battles, Pyle wrote about the fighting soldier and his plight on the front lines. It was, said that Pyle's daily columns gave nothing more and nothing less than a worm's eye view of World War II. Richard Melzer does for Ernie Pyle what Ernie Pyle did for thousands of average G.I.s overseas: he describes Pyle's joys and struggles from Ernie's perspective, in candid, straightforward terms. The result is a focused biography, rich in detail and broad in appeal, just as Ernie would have liked it

Target audience

adult

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