SOURCE: "San Pietro and the 'Art' of War," in Southwest Review, Vol. 24, No. 3, Spring, 1989, pp. 230-256.
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 and John Huston's war film San Pietro.
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