Brave Men - Ernie Pyle

Ernie Pyle

Category: History

Narrator: Paul Boehmer

Tags: History, Anthology, Adults, Literature

Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc. Release date: May 12, 2020 Duration: 21:35:47, 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, Pyles 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 soldiers 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 di