Ernie Pyle Critical Essay | Critical Essay by Edward Streeter

Critical Essay by Edward Streeter

SOURCE: "Ernie Pyle's Story of G. I. Joe," in The New York Times Book Review, October 31, 1943, pp. 1, 34.

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 Tunisia. [in Here Is Your War]. He has also achieved something far more difficult and important—a full length, deeply human portrait of the American soldier in action.

This ability to disclose the individual beneath the war-stained uniform of the soldier is what has made Pyle one of the most popular of the war correspondents. He writes only of what he sees, and he sees the tilings that those at home want most to know: what their boys eat, where they sleep, what they talk about, and how they react to the fatigue, dirt and danger of a fighting front.

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