Ernie Pyle Brave Men

Pyle, Ernie: BRAVE MEN (INSCRIBED BY ERNIE PYLE to a Hollywood Actor During The Filming of "The Story of G. I. Joe") New York Henry Holt and Company 1944 ; fester Einband / hard cover; Schutzumschlag / dust cover; sig.; 1. Ed.
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Inscribed by Ernie Pyle to Hollywood actor Jack Reilly on Jan. 1, 1945. Inscription is neatly done in black pen on the first front free endpaper. Below the inscription Pyle wrote in small lettering the date of the inscription. On April 18, 1945 Pyle was killed in action (as a journalist) by Japanese rifle or machine gun fire on the island of Okinowa as he accompanied U.S.forces there fighting the Japanese Imperial Army. Jack Reilly, to whom this copy is inscribed, had a role in the Hollywood motion picture "The Story of G.I. Joe," which is based on the wartime newspaper columns of Ernie Pyle and is set on the Italian front of WWII. Thus, in a sense this book "Brave Men" by Pyle, which has much content on the Italian campaign, and which is dedicated to the fighting G.I.'s, became the motion picture. Ernie Pyle is even one of the characters in the film, played by Burgess Meredith. Reilly played the character of Private Murphy. The film starred Robert Mitchum and it is considered today to be one of the more realistic wartime films about World War II. Pyle was an advisor for the filming, and it is rather obvious that this copy of "Brave Men" was inscribed by Pyle to Reilly during the filming. This copy is thus, also rather obviously, a great association copy. Signed Ernie Pyle material is uncommon in the marketplace, and this particular rather unique inscribed and signed copy could easily become an important centerpiece in a collection about Ernie Pyle, or the cornerstone in a collection of books about WWII. No newpaper correspondent in WWII was as well known and loved by the troops as was Ernie Pyle. This copy is in a dust jacket that is moderately chipped and rubbed at the edges and also with losses at the corners. Loss of about 1/8 inch of jacket material at head of spine but that not affecting the spine lettering. Cover illustration of soldiers marching in a column with photo of Ernie Pyle at the upper right corner is still bright. Spine is sunned and the color sensitive lettering for author and title on the spine is faded (but the lettering in black is still bold). One small damping spot faintly visible on spine of jacket. Back cover of jacket with short closed tear at top edge, a crease line at the top, and a small area of scuffing to the text message which is a tribute to Pyle taken from Time Magazine. Jacket is not price clipped and is now protected, of course, in mylar. Tan cloth under the jacket and lettering on spine of book itself still bright. Binding is square and tight with hinges intact. Contents clean. Printed on wartime paper and there is a bit of waviness to the paper at the top and bottom edges of the pages near the front and back of the book owing to the thinness of the wartime paper. It is tragic to note that Pyle was killed on the Pacific front before the motion picture was released. He was 45 years old at his death. The end of the text about Pyle on the back cover of the jacket is haunting. It reads, "In his unique way, he is almost sure to be a sort of national conscience. He may be that even if he is killed in battle. For if Ernie Pyle should die tomorrow, as well he may, it would still be a long time before Americans forgot Ernie Pyle's war." -- Time Magazine. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY ERNIE PYLE First Edition Near Very Good Hardcover Octavo, 474pp; First Edition

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PYLE, ERNIE; PIEHLER, G. KURT. Brave Men. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln: 2001. ISBN: 0803287682

513 pages. 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 in Time magazine: one of maps and logistics, campaigns, ballistics, divisions, and regiments and the other a "war of the homesick, weary, funny, violent, common men who wash their socks in their helmets, complain about the food, whistle at Arab girls, or any girls for that matter, and bring themselves through as dirty a business as the world has ever seen and do it with humor and dignity and courageNand that is Ernie Pyle's war." This collection of Pyle's columns detailing the fighting in Europe in 1943-44 brings that warNand the living, and dying, moments of historyNhome to us once again. Ernie Pyle worked as managing editor of the Washington News and later became a roving journalist for Scripps Howard Newspapers. After many years following the fighting in Europe, Pyle traveled to the South Pacific, where a sniper's bullet took his life in 1945. "Brave Men is a collection of journalist Pyle's newspaper columns from 1943 and 1944, in which he details the fighting in Europe primarily from the perspective of the common U.S. G.I. This angle of reporting brought the front-line war back to the families of those serving in the armed forces and endeared Pyle to the troops. An essential piece of Americana for all collections."NLibrary Journal "In his fine introduction to this new edition, G. Kurt Piehler (History/Univ. of Tennessee at Knoxville) celebrates Pyle's 'dense, descriptive style' and his unusual feel for the quotidian GI experienceNa personal and human side to war left out of reporting on generals and their strategies. . . . Kirkus, at the time [of the original edition in 1944], noted the hoopla over Pyle (Pulitzer, hugely popular syndicated column, BOMC hype) and decided it was all worth it: 'the book doesn't let the reader down.' Pyle, of course, captures 'the human qualities' of men in combat, but he also provides 'an extraordinary sense of the scope of the European war fronts, the variety of services involved, the men and their officers.' . . . [A] classic of modern journalism."NKirkus Reviews Includes an Index Softcover. Brand new book.

[SW: (Key Words: Ernie Pyle, Journalists, Kurt G. Piehler, World War Two, Personal Narratives, Pulitzer Prize Winners).]

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PYLE, ERNIE. Brave Men. Henry Holt and Company, New York: 1944.

474 pages. 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 in Time magazine: one of maps and logistics, campaigns, ballistics, divisions, and regiments and the other a "war of the homesick, weary, funny, violent, common men who wash their socks in their helmets, complain about the food, whistle at Arab girls, or any girls for that matter, and bring themselves through as dirty a business as the world has ever seen and do it with humor and dignity and courageNand that is Ernie Pyle's war." This collection of Pyle's columns detailing the fighting in Europe in 1943-44 brings that warNand the living, and dying, moments of historyNhome to us once again. Ernie Pyle worked as managing editor of the Washington News and later became a roving journalist for Scripps Howard Newspapers. After many years following the fighting in Europe, Pyle traveled to the South Pacific, where a sniper's bullet took his life in 1945. "Brave Men is a collection of journalist Pyle's newspaper columns from 1943 and 1944, in which he details the fighting in Europe primarily from the perspective of the common U.S. G.I. This angle of reporting brought the front-line war back to the families of those serving in the armed forces and endeared Pyle to the troops. An essential piece of Americana for all collections."NLibrary Journal "Pyle, of course, captures 'the human qualities' of men in combat, but he also provides 'an extraordinary sense of the scope of the European war fronts, the variety of services involved, the men and their officers. . . [A] classic of modern journalism."NKirkus Reviews Hardcover, no dustjacket. reading copy.

[SW: (Key Words: Ernie Pyle, Journalists, World War Two, Personal Narratives, Pulitzer Prize Winners).]

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PYLE, ERNIE. Brave Men. Henry Holt and Company, New York: 1944.

474 pages. 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 in Time magazine: one of maps and logistics, campaigns, ballistics, divisions, and regiments and the other a "war of the homesick, weary, funny, violent, common men who wash their socks in their helmets, complain about the food, whistle at Arab girls, or any girls for that matter, and bring themselves through as dirty a business as the world has ever seen and do it with humor and dignity and courageNand that is Ernie Pyle's war." This collection of Pyle's columns detailing the fighting in Europe in 1943-44 brings that warNand the living, and dying, moments of historyNhome to us once again. Ernie Pyle worked as managing editor of the Washington News and later became a roving journalist for Scripps Howard Newspapers. After many years following the fighting in Europe, Pyle traveled to the South Pacific, where a sniper's bullet took his life in 1945. "Brave Men is a collection of journalist Pyle's newspaper columns from 1943 and 1944, in which he details the fighting in Europe primarily from the perspective of the common U.S. G.I. This angle of reporting brought the front-line war back to the families of those serving in the armed forces and endeared Pyle to the troops. An essential piece of Americana for all collections."NLibrary Journal "Pyle, of course, captures 'the human qualities' of men in combat, but he also provides 'an extraordinary sense of the scope of the European war fronts, the variety of services involved, the men and their officers. . . [A] classic of modern journalism."NKirkus Reviews Hardcover, no dustjacket. reading copy.

[SW: (Key Words: Ernie Pyle, Journalists, World War Two, Personal Narratives, Pulitzer Prize Winners).]

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