Here is Your War America's Favorite Correspondent Tells the Story of Our Soldiers' First Big Campaign
by Pyle, Ernie
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1579124410
- ISBN 13
- 9781579124410
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About This Item
E-260: Henry Holt and Company. Very Good. 1943. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Henry Holt and Company, New York. 1943. 304 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light chipping, shelf-wear and rubbing present to the DJ especially around the extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's name bookplate present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. 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, Pyles 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 soldiers experience. A wonderful and enduring tribute to American troops in the Second World War, Here Is Your War is Ernie Pyles 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 Americaranches, inner cities, small mountain farms, and college townslearned to fight a war. The Allied campaign and ultimate victory in North Africa was built on blood, brave deeds, sacrifice and needless loss, exotic vistas, endurance, homesickness, and an unmistakable American sense of humor. Its all herethe suspenseful landing at Oran; the risks taken daily by fighter and bomber pilots; grim, unrelenting combat in the desert and mountains of Tunisia; a ferocious tank battle that ended in defeat for the inexperienced Americans; and the final victory at Tunis. Pyles keen observations relate the full story of ordinary G. I. S caught up in extraordinary times. EB; 220 X 147 X 28 millimeters; 336 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Last Exit Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 67039
- Title
- Here is Your War America's Favorite Correspondent Tells the Story of Our Soldiers' First Big Campaign
- Author
- Pyle, Ernie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 1579124410
- ISBN 13
- 9781579124410
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Company
- Place of Publication
- E-260
- Date Published
- 1943
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