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A wonderful and enduring tribute to American troops in the Second World War, Here Is Your War is Ernie Pyle's story of the soldiers' first campaign against the enemy in North Africa. With unequaled humanity and insight, Pyle tells how people from a cross-section of America's ranches, inner cities, small mountain farms, and college towns learned to fight a war. The Allied campaign and ultimate victory in North Africa was built on blood, brave deeds, sacrifice and needless loss, exotic vistas, endurance, homesickness, and an unmistakable American sense of humor. It's all here - the suspenseful landing at Oran; the risks taken daily by fighter and bomber pilots; grim, unrelenting combat in the desert and mountains of Tunisia; a ferocious tank battle that ended in defeat for the inexperienced Americans; and the final victory at Tunis. Pyle's keen observations relate the full story of ordinary G.I.s caught up in extraordinary times.
- Sales Rank: #2270555 in Books
- Published on: 1944
- Binding: Hardcover
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34 of 35 people found the following review helpful.
Great First Hand Account of the African Campaign
By Blair S.
This book is an edited compilation of Ernie Pyles' dispatches during the North African Campaign of World War Two (each chapter was originally two or three columns and were woven together to make the story flow better). It describes the sea voyage from England, the landing in Algiers, and the drive across North Africa, ending with the German retreat and surrender.
Pyle gives a great accounting of all of the different types of people that compile a war effort - the nurses, cooks, mechanics, pilots, and of course the infantry. He tends to stay away from the brass and talk with the soldiers. The style of writing is very quaint - when ever a soldier is introduced in a story, Pyle gives his/her hometowm and often his/her address as well. The writing flows surprisingly well - and I say surprisingly because if one just looks at the text, consisting of short sentences and paragraphs, it would give the illusion of being choppy. It is infact beautifully written from a humanistic stand point.
Pyle doesn't gloss over the horrors of war, his own fear, the hardships or the set backs. He talks about the mistakes we made in the administration of captured Algiers, and how we were defeated in the initial combat against the Germans.
The reason why Pyle was/is so famous is he brings to life all of the warm anectodes that make life in a combat zone bearable - the unselfish acts of courage and kindness - as well as the sense of loss when a friend will no longer be with us. That was the true beauty of Pyle's work.
Again, this is a fantastic book for anyone seeking to learn who were the men and women that fought WWII and what life was like for them.
26 of 27 people found the following review helpful.
A vision of the past
By A Customer
Ernie Pyle, probably the greatest journalist who ever lived, presents his best work from the American campaign in North Africa. Through Ernie's words, we see how life was like in WWII for the average soldier. Ernie never cared for raving on about generals and admirals -- just the average "Joe." His books read like the greatest screenplays. And yet they are not fiction. They are real stories, memoirs, recollections, biographies of hundreds of soldiers. His book is a living, breathing echoe of America's blood and tears in World war II. A must for any journalist, journalism student or anyone interested in World War II and military history
19 of 19 people found the following review helpful.
The Feel of Americans Fighting in WW II
By Dr. Frank Stech
I've been reading Pyle's "Here is Your War," his accounts from the North African Campaign. It is easy to see why Pyle was beloved, not just by the soldiers (especially the infantrymen), but by the folks at home too. Pyle loved these guys and they loved him. He was "embedded" with them for years. He and they hated the job they had to do, and they were grimly determined that they were not going home until they had done it. Ernie never did get home--he is still out there, still telling his stories, still helping us feel why his guys and his words are still important.
Pyle was not shy in telling readers that he was never big on going on "heroic" missions just so he could write about them. He would pass on opportunities to stick his neck way out. It is interesting and ironic that Ernest Hemingway, another war correspondent, who sought any opportunity to make a hero out of himself, frequently and enviously mentions Pyle, but Pyle never mentions Hemingway. When they were both in Paris in 1944 at the Liberation, Pyle was with the GIs, Hemingway was in the Ritz Bar with the generals.
Pyle was always ready to go anyhwere with the troops, and if that meant being shelled and shot at, he just hung on with the rest of the fellows. Pyle made it clear to the readers that the real heroism was being there and sticking it out, not the particular feats of bravery that garnered the headlines and the medals. He showed all the guys (and the gals; Pyle's second love were the ladies in the uniforms) were heroes and he told the folks at home why.
There are never any "minor combat actions" for the lads and lasses under fire, and Pyle gives the feeling of that "pucker factor," when the enemy is shooting, strafing, and shelling. But he also conveys a deeper feeling that is largely missing from combat today. In the 1940s, Americans went to war knowing not just that they or their friends might die, but that our side could lose the whole war. Today, the individual American soldier knows he or she might have a "bad day," but we are all pretty sure we know who's side is going to win. In 1942 or 1943, the fate of the world was riding on those young boys Ernie Pyle loved so deeply. What is beautiful is that Ernie never had to write anything profound about why these guys were out there doing the fighting. He just told their personal stories in a way that told the whole story for all of us.
I would recommend any of Pyle's books, to be read along with a copy of the late Bill Mauldin's "Up Front," his WW II cartoons of Willie and Joe. Mauldin drew cartoon versions of the GI infantrymen that Pyle loved the most. Pyle and Mauldin are the very best way I know to introduce a young person to the Americans in World War II. Pyle and Mauldin are the words and the pictures that provide the feel, of the life and the death, the humor and sadness, the guts and the fear and the bravery, of this Greatest Generation of Americans at war. There were no two journalists as loved by combat soldiers. Without the feel that only they convey it is very hard to give the history of WW II much real human meaning.
Colonel (ret.) Frank Stech, PhD USAR
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