1997, ISBN: 9780716512455

London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1943. Hardcover. DJ has chips, edge tears, edge wear, and browning. Notation on front DJ flap has crock… More...

London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1943. Hardcover. DJ has chips, edge tears, edge wear, and browning. Notation on front DJ flap has crocked off onto the fly leaf. ., Oxford University Press, 1943, 3, New York: Free Press, 1997. Second printing. Hardcover. 312 p. Includes an Index and 16 pages of black & white photographs. 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. -- From the jacket of the book. "When World War II correspondent Ernie Pyle left for the Pacific Theater in 1945, he told friends and colleagues that he felt sure he would die there. Pyle was right; on April 18th, a Japanese machine gunner killed one of America's most beloved personalities, sending the entire nation into shock and mourning. In the years since Pyle's death, his particular brand of journalism has been criticized: he's been accused of ignoring the stupidity of generals, of downplaying the horror of battle, and of presenting the war in a better light than it actually deserved to be portrayed. James Tobin, author of the impressive biography Ernie Pyle's War, does not deny that his subject often smoothed the jagged facts of war, but he provides both the context--an era and a war in which correspondents were expected to be "team players" who helped their side to win hearts and minds at home--and the personal conflict raised for Pyle by the often irreconcilable demands of telling the truth and building morale. In addition to detailing Pyle's mostly unhappy personal life, Tobin also includes samples of his columns, proving once and for all that Pyle was more than just a hick who fell into reporting; the man had real, substantial talent, evidenced by his ability to put words together and his sensitivity to the subjects he wrote about. More than just a biography, Ernie Pyle's War is also a study of war, and the peculiar, twilight world of suffering and half-told truths to which men like Ernie Pyle were drawn." -- review. Book is in very good condition, would be fine except for faint soiling to page block, a few very faint spots and/or dust. The jacket, not clipped, has mild edge wear and a small crease on back cover., Free Press, 1997, 0, Oxford University Press. Fair with no dust jacket. 1944. Hardcover. Both spine ends are missing, covers are loose at those points. Covers have slight wear to outer corners. Front cover has a few very slight water spots and slight smudging. Bookseller's ink stamp on first blank page. Internally very good. ; "...submitted to the warden and fellows of Nuffield College, Oxford." With folded maps. ., Oxford University Press, 1944, 2, Irish University Press, 1971. Volume 4. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,3550grams, ISBN:0716512459, Irish University Press, 1971, 0<

1971, ISBN: 0716512459

[EAN: 9780716512455], Used, good, [PU: Irish University Press], HISTORY, Volume 4. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardba… More...

[EAN: 9780716512455], Used, good, [PU: Irish University Press], HISTORY, Volume 4. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,3550grams, ISBN:0716512459, Books<