James Tobin

Ernie Pyle's War

America's Eyewitness to World War II

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

WINNER OF A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD Ernie Pyle, better than any other World War II journalist, conveyed the triumphs and tribulations of the common soldier trying to survive a brutal conflict. From North Africa and Normandy, Anzio and Okinawa -- where he died -- Pyle brought the war home to America. James Tobin's "superbly documented and compassionate account" ("Publishers Weekly") is a classic biography of an American icon.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon & Schuster
• Reissue edition
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 138mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9780743284769
• ISBN-10: 0743284763
• Artikelnr.: 20990852

Autorenporträt

James Tobin won the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography for Ernie Pyle’s War and the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award for To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight. Educated at the University of Michigan, where he earned a PhD in history, he teaches narrative nonfiction in the Department of Media, Journalism, and Film at Miami University in Oxford, OH.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: "And So It Is Over"
1. "I Wanted to Get Out..."
2. "A Nice Little Column"
3. "A Slightly Used Secondhand Man..."
4. "In It to the Hilt..."
5. "I'll Just Drift with the War..."
6. "The Number-One Correspondent..."
7. "The Ghastly Brotherhood..."
8. "An Awful Knowledge..."
9. "You Alone Are Left Alive..."
10. "The Pyle Phenomenon"
11. "An End to This Wandering"
Epilogue: "What I See"
Appendix: An Ernie Pyle Sampler
Notes
A Note on Sources
Acknowledgments
Index