Brave Men

Name: Brave Men
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ISBN: 9780803287686

ISBN-10: 0803287682

ISBN-13: 9780803287686

Edition: 2001

Authors: Ernie Pyle, G. Kurt Piehler

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Europe was in the throes of World War II, and when America joined the fighting, Ernie Pyle went along. Long before television beamed daily images of combat into our living rooms, Pyle’s on-the-spot reporting gave the American public a firsthand view of what war was like for the boys on the front. Pyle followed the soldiers into the trenches, battlefields, field hospitals, and beleaguered cities of Europe. What he witnessed he described with a clarity, sympathy, and grit that gave the public back home an immediate sense of the foot soldier’s experience. There were really two wars, John Steinbeck wrote inTimemagazine: one of maps and logistics, campaigns, ballistics, divisions, and…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 4/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 513
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

G. Kurt Piehler is Associate Professor of History at the University of Tennessee. He is author of Remembering War the American Way (1995) and World War IInbsp; (2007) and co-editor of Major Problems in American Military History (1999), The Atomic Bomb and American Society: New Perspectives (2009), and The Second World War: New Perspectives on Diplomacy, War, and the Home Front (2010).

Sicily - June-September, 1943
Invasion Prelude	p. 3
The Armada Sails	p. 13
D-Day: - Sicily	p. 21
The Navy Stands By	p. 36
Medics and Casualties	p. 48
The Engineers' War	p. 62
Campaigning	p. 80
Sicily Conquered	p. 92
Italy - December, 1943-April, 1944
Artillerymen	p. 101
Personalities and Asides	p. 126
Mountain Fighting	p. 151
Dive Bombers	p. 167
The Fabulous Infantry	p. 193
Light Bombers	p. 217
LST Cruise	p. 238
Anzio-Nettuno	p. 246
Beachhead Fighters	p. 266
Supply Line	p. 288
Hospital Ship	p. 303
Farewell to Italy	p. 309
England - April-May, 1944
This England	p. 315
Brass Hats	p. 325
The Flying Wedge	p. 339
Stand By	p. 360
France - June-September, 1944
The Whistle Blows	p. 375
On the Road to Berlin	p. 384
Vive La France	p. 394
American Ack-Ack	p. 406
Street Fighting	p. 419
Reconnoiterings	p. 433
Ordnance	p. 443
Break-Through	p. 456
Hedgerow Fighting	p. 466
Paris	p. 482
A Last Word	p. 491
Index of Persons and Places	p. 495
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