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Ernie Pyle’s Here is Your War, is a collection of his columns written as he was experiencing the North African Campaign during World War II. What keep me from rating this Pulitzer Prize winning collection with all five stars is a feeling that he tends to hew a little too closely to the official line. American troops are all a little too clean,. American purposes and intentions are a little too much as the official Army position would have you believe. Later columns will make it clear that he and the foot soldier has lost some of his innocence. Beyond what may be niggling on my part, Pyle’s style of reporting is masterful for its direct honestly. He achieves with reality much of what Hemmingway hoped to achieve in his sparsely designed fiction. One suspects that both worked very hard to produce what reads as simple truth. Very highly recommended for anyone wanting good war front reporting and specifically a feel for the front lines in the African Campaign.

Having previous reported World War II from London as it was being bombed, Ernie Pyle is selected to accompany the American portion of the North African invasion fleet. As such he is among the first American correspondents to cover American soldiers in World War II from the front lines. He could have travelled in command posts or covered the war from some distance from the front but he made of himself an embedded reporter.

Early he is with the Army Air warriors. He earliest reporting as a peacetime civilian had been with these same flyers. He was comfortable with them. Comfort would never what he most wanted to report. Soon he would be traveling with bare minimal gear” his bed roll, a foot soldier’s tent and his type writer. He would seek out the front. He would be in the same bomb shelters and fox holes as the troops leaped for during any incoming rounds. He would develop the foot soldiers love for and dependence on holes, hastily dug or carefully designed.

More so in the earlier part of the book, Pyle is positively impressed with too many things. Food is always good, even if the tradition is to hate it. The back of the line support is recognized and respected even as he learns the front lines disregard for those as soldiers of the second rate. One can search for a long time before reading anything, much less anything sympathetic about the troops who did the terrible but vital work of stretcher bearer. Even his defense of the Army at the defeat at Kasserine can fell at once fair and overly protective. It does not seem to be in Pyle to tell the folks at home that their Army is anything less than new at the business of war.

The business of war – This will be the theme that ties together the beginning and the end of Here is You War. America’s soldiers start North Africa as the kids, workmen and everyday people you knew growing up, where ever you grew up. By the end of the book everyone has a particular job. The new job means that they are not going to go home until killing stops being the requirement of the day.

This is as close to the truth about America experience in the North African Campaign as any of us now reading Here is Your War is likely to get. Perhaps too wide eyed and accepting in the beginning. Pyle and the soldiers are resigned to the nastiness and shouldering the violent routine at the end.


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Here Is Your War Story of GI Joe Ernie Pyle Orr Kelly Books Reviews

There was only one Ernie Pyle, who was adored by the dog-faces, as he got down in the foxholes with them instead of hanging back in the rear echelons with the generals. His daily columns were avidly read by the home-folks, since they brought the war home on a personal basis. He was killed on the Japanese island of Ie Shima, which lies off Okinawa, just four months before the war ended. Many years ago I visited the site, and the memorial there simply says "On this spot the 77th Infantry Division lost a buddy." The last collection of his columns, entitled "Brave Men," is only available as a used hardback, but someday ought to be available on . It, too, is highly recommended.
This classic narrative of Ernie Pyle's experience embedded with the troops invading Africa in World War II is every bit what one would expect true, unvarnished tales of dirt, blood, life, death, bravery, and all that is war. He lived in the dirt with the GIs, was there when bullets and bombs were flying, and saw it all. He told it, from a grunt's-eye-view, for those back home in America, so they could know what their husbands & sons were experiencing. It's not Hollywood; it's the real deal.
Ernie Pyle was the best known of the cadre of World War II correspondents. This volume follows "GI Joe" during the invasion of North Africa and the battles that followed. While Pyle was most comfortable with the foot soldier, he also accompanied medical units, fliers, and generals. He tells their stories, gives their names and addresses, with real insight into the mind of the average American boy in an era long gone. It's all here - the black humor needed to cope with the horrors these boys saw, the pets and children they "adopted," the tension of creeping into position at night to attack an enemy who was, at that point, superior to the Americans. The Germans were battle-hardened veterans, with intelligent and innovative leadership, whereas the Americans were green troops, frightened of the unknown, and prone to run. Once Patton, Bradley, and Truscott took firm hold of the reins of leadership, discipline was restored and our men quickly became a very effective fighting machine. Pyle describes it all, and his pride in the average Joe and his abilities is obvious. This volume is an intimate look at that era, written as it happened, and therefore a valuable resource for anyone interested in the "Forgotten Front" - the invasions of Africa, Sicily, and finally Italy.
I think it very important to understand what experience was gained and lessons were learned by America's inexperienced troops and leaders before we entered the European and Japanese phases of the war. Ernie was a teacher.
Ernie Pyle , I was shocked to discover , was killed when reporting in the Pacific during WW2. This however, deals factually with the European part of the War. His accounts start with life in London before America joined, and This book carries on his faithful reporting. No American confronted by his account of the War could be in any doubt about what had to be done and how the Army was doing it. We Brits owe him a lot, which was why I felt a real sense of sadness by his loss.
Ernie Pyle's reportage in World War II made him famous and, as they say, "beloved." He liked the grunts and army more than he did the brass, and his sympathies are obvious. His collected writing from the front should be read chronologically -- "Ernie Pyle in England," "Here Is Your War," "Brave Men," "Last Chapter."

He was a folksy writer, maybe naive and with Pollyanna tendencies, sort of at the opposite end of the spectrum from A.J. Liebling. But as the war went on he grew wiser and less optimistic.

Naive maybe, but an authentic voice. He thrust himself into the war and suffered along with the troops. He was killed in combat just before Japan surrendered. He was a famous part of World War II and deserves attention for that reason alone. On top of which, his prose is still pleasant to read.
Bottom Line First
Ernie Pyle’s Here is Your War, is a collection of his columns written as he was experiencing the North African Campaign during World War II. What keep me from rating this Pulitzer Prize winning collection with all five stars is a feeling that he tends to hew a little too closely to the official line. American troops are all a little too clean,. American purposes and intentions are a little too much as the official Army position would have you believe. Later columns will make it clear that he and the foot soldier has lost some of his innocence. Beyond what may be niggling on my part, Pyle’s style of reporting is masterful for its direct honestly. He achieves with reality much of what Hemmingway hoped to achieve in his sparsely designed fiction. One suspects that both worked very hard to produce what reads as simple truth. Very highly recommended for anyone wanting good war front reporting and specifically a feel for the front lines in the African Campaign.

Having previous reported World War II from London as it was being bombed, Ernie Pyle is selected to accompany the American portion of the North African invasion fleet. As such he is among the first American correspondents to cover American soldiers in World War II from the front lines. He could have travelled in command posts or covered the war from some distance from the front but he made of himself an embedded reporter.

Early he is with the Army Air warriors. He earliest reporting as a peacetime civilian had been with these same flyers. He was comfortable with them. Comfort would never what he most wanted to report. Soon he would be traveling with bare minimal gear” his bed roll, a foot soldier’s tent and his type writer. He would seek out the front. He would be in the same bomb shelters and fox holes as the troops leaped for during any incoming rounds. He would develop the foot soldiers love for and dependence on holes, hastily dug or carefully designed.

More so in the earlier part of the book, Pyle is positively impressed with too many things. Food is always good, even if the tradition is to hate it. The back of the line support is recognized and respected even as he learns the front lines disregard for those as soldiers of the second rate. One can search for a long time before reading anything, much less anything sympathetic about the troops who did the terrible but vital work of stretcher bearer. Even his defense of the Army at the defeat at Kasserine can fell at once fair and overly protective. It does not seem to be in Pyle to tell the folks at home that their Army is anything less than new at the business of war.

The business of war – This will be the theme that ties together the beginning and the end of Here is You War. America’s soldiers start North Africa as the kids, workmen and everyday people you knew growing up, where ever you grew up. By the end of the book everyone has a particular job. The new job means that they are not going to go home until killing stops being the requirement of the day.

This is as close to the truth about America experience in the North African Campaign as any of us now reading Here is Your War is likely to get. Perhaps too wide eyed and accepting in the beginning. Pyle and the soldiers are resigned to the nastiness and shouldering the violent routine at the end.