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Ernie Pyle (1900-1945) was America's most beloved and famous war correspondent during World War II. His sympathetic accounts of the ordinary GI made him the champion of American fighting men.Born in a...
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Ernie Pyle became a well-known and widely read columnist during the Second World War. Following the path of the fighting from England to Africa, then to Italy and France, and finally to the Pacific, P...
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In the following essay, Streeter praises Pyle's "deeply human portrait of the American soldier in action."
Ernie Pyle has drawn a graphic and absorbing picture of the fighting in ...
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In the following essay, Dempsey reviews Pyle's last book, Last Chapter, published thirteen months after the author's death, commenting that while its fragmentary nature may disappoint so...
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In the following essay, Mauldin, a fellow journalist during World War II, offers praise for Pyle's last book, Last Chapter.
It is standard operating procedure to find someone who knew Ernie Pyl...
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In the following essay, Nichols provides an overview of Pyle's life, focusing on his relationship with his wife.
Ernie Pyle was born August 3, 1900, on a farm a few miles outside Dana, Indiana,...
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In the following essay, Bertelsen discusses the literary and cinematic influences of Pyle's "The Death of Captain Waskow, " and parallels similarities between Pyle's piece ...
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In the following essay, Nichols provides an overview of Pyle's career.
Rare is the American who has not dreamed of dropping whatever he is doing and hitting the road. The dream of unrestrained ...
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In the following essay, originally published in 1944, the writer argues that Pyle's success at capturing the often mundane realities of war sprang from his own averageness.
From Hollywood: I ha...
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In the following essay, Rae praises Pyle's depiction of the diversity of American life in Home Country.
Before he left on his last journey to the Pacific, Ernie Pyle said to his publishers: &#x...
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In the following essay, Sulzberger reviews Brave Men, suggesting that Pyle's main contribution to wartime journalism was "a more concrete recognition of GI Joe's services."...
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In the following essay, Fisher discusses Pyle's World War II journalism, noting that Pyle's concentration on the details of soldiers' lives and experiences made him an exceptional...
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In the following essay, Hovey attempts, through a review of Brave Men, to explain why Pyle was the most popular war correspondent in America during World War II.
Like Franklin Roosevelt and the Brookl...
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In the following essay, which was first published in 1945, Brown provides a personal remembrance of Pyle, commenting on Pyle's motivation in writing about "the common frontline soldier.&...
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In the following essay, originally published in 1945, Jarrell praises Pyle's ability to evoke in his writing the experience of war.
He wrote like none of the rest. The official, pressagent, adv...
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In the following essay, Angoff reviews Brave Men, distinguishing Pyle from the "political philosophers" whose less emotional understanding of war distances them from its true tragedy.
Am...
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Ernie Pyle
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Critical Essay by Edward Streeter
