Ernie Pyle: The Life and Legacy of the Most Famous Journalist Killed in Battle During World War II

*Includes pictures *Includes Pyle's accounts of the war *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents “Their life consisted wholly and solely of war, for they were and always had been front-line infantrymen. They survived because the fates were kind to them, certainly – but also because they had become hard and immensely wise in animal-like ways of self-preservation.” – Ernie Pyle “No man in this war has so well told the story of the American fighting man as American fighting men wanted it told. He deserves the gratitude of all his countrymen." – President Harry Truman Ernie Pyle’s life reads like a 1950s movie script. Born the beloved and only child of hardscrabble American farmers, he made good grades in school, graduated, and went off to college at “State,” in his case the University of Indiana. Overcoming his shyness, he studied journalism and wrote stories for the school paper that earned him a position of esteem among his fello