Here Is Your War"Here Is Your War collects, in the full-length form in which they were individually filed, Ernie Pyle's legendary 1942 news columns about fighting on the North African front, the American army's first big campaign of World War II. Concentrating on the common soldier, Pyle's dispatches appeared in three hundred newspapers back home, becoming an essential link between the nation and its sons, brothers, and husbands in battle. " -- Book Jacket. |
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