
Published online:
23 March 2017
Published in print:
01 June 2017
Online ISBN:
9780190660659
Print ISBN:
9780190660628
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Exhausted Ernie Exhausted Ernie
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“Depressed by the War” “Depressed by the War”
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Death Everywhere Death Everywhere
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Cite
Casey, Steven, 'Death in Winter', The War Beat, Europe: The American Media at War Against Nazi Germany (New York , 2017; online edn, Oxford Academic, 23 Mar. 2017), https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190660628.003.0012, accessed 7 May 2025.
Abstract
Ernie Pyle arrived in Italy in November 1943 worn out by his earlier battlefield experiences. As the Allied campaign bogged down around a series of impressive German defensive positions, which were shielded both by rivers and mountains, Pyle found it easy to inject a note of realistic pessimism into his war reporting. The apogee of his efforts came during the Battle of San Pietro in December 1943, when he told the moving story of the death of Captain Henry T. Waskow, but Pyle was not the only correspondent to write in this vein. Homer Bigart and Hal Boyle also produced similar stories, as the Allied effort became bogged down in stalemate.
Keywords:
Italian campaign, Ernie Pyle, Henry Waskow, Battle of San Pietro, Homer Bigart, Don Whitehead, Richard Tregaskis, Hal Boyle
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