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Here is your war : story of G.I. Joe / Ernie Pyle

By: Pyle, ErnieContributor(s): Pyle, Ernie | Kelly, OrrMaterial type: Text

TextPublisher number: :Atlantic Publishers & Distributors | :7/22 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi Publication details: Lincoln, London : University of Nebraska Press, 2004Description: 246p. 24cmISBN: 9780803287778Subject(s): History | History of Europe | Pyle, Ernie, -- 1900-1945 | Pyle, Ernie | World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American | War correspondents -- United States -- Biography | War correspondents | Noord-Afrika | Military campaignsDDC classification: 940.542 PYL

Contents:

Convoy to Africa -- The Americans have landed -- Not too dark Africa -- Political picture, December, 1942 -- On the land -- The medical front -- Turns and encounters -- In the air -- Sherman had a word for it -- Bullets, battles, and retreat -- Sidelights -- Desert sortie -- The French foreign legion -- Roving reporters -- The end in sight -- The final push -- Victory -- Aftermath.

Summary: Here Is Your War is Ernie Pyle's story of the soldiers' first campaign against the enemy in North Africa. Pyle tells how people from a cross-section of America - ranches, inner cities, small mountain farms, and college towns - learned to fight a war. The Allied campaign and ultimate victory in North Africa were build on blood, brave deeds, sacrifice and needless loss, exotic vistas, endurance, homesickness, and an

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	SNU LIBRARY	940.542 PYL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not For Loan		26394

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Convoy to Africa --
The Americans have landed --
Not too dark Africa --
Political picture, December, 1942 --
On the land --
The medical front --
Turns and encounters --
In the air --
Sherman had a word for it --
Bullets, battles, and retreat --
Sidelights --
Desert sortie --
The French foreign legion --
Roving reporters --
The end in sight --
The final push --
Victory --
Aftermath.

Here Is Your War is Ernie Pyle's story of the soldiers' first campaign against the enemy in North Africa. Pyle tells how people from a cross-section of America - ranches, inner cities, small mountain farms, and college towns - learned to fight a war. The Allied campaign and ultimate victory in North Africa were build on blood, brave deeds, sacrifice and needless loss, exotic vistas, endurance, homesickness, and an

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