Brave Men
by Ernie Pyle
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Very Good +
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
CA$34.72CA$24.30
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About This Item
New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company, 1944 Henry Holt and Company, New York. 1944. Hardcover. Stated 1st Printing. A Wartime Book in compliance with government regulations (not double columned). Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good+; bumped tail and upper tips; slight shelfwear to head, tail, and tips; slight insect mottling to board bottom edges. DJ: Very Good +; NOT Price Clipped ($3.00); light suntoning to spine, flap folds, and top edge of DJ; light wear to head, tail, and tips. Tan cloth boards and spine with maroon lettering on the spine. 474 pp 8vo. Pyle's historic book on the lives and actions of American soldiers in Europe where Pyle was a War Correspondent. Covers the war from Sicily to Italy to England and finally France. With an index of persons and places. A clean very presentable copy in a mylar jacket. Rare to find in this condition.
Synopsis
Newspaper columns reveal the journalist's first-hand accounts of trench warfare, field hospitals, destroyed cities, realities of being a soldier, and the frontlines of battle during the fighting in Europe from 1943 to 1944.
Reviews
On Nov 9 2004, KnC Books said:
The war from the view of the average soldier, captured by a writer on the beaches beside them.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017045
- Title
- Brave Men
- Author
- Ernie Pyle
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1944
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- ERNIE PYLE, WAR CORRESPONDENTS, ITALY, FRANCE, WRITERS, journalists, newspapermen, EUROPE, SICILY, OPERATION OVERLORD, HEDGEROWS, ARMY AIR FORCE, STARS AND STRIPES NEWSPAPER, World War II, Pacific Theater, European Theater, war journalism, war, military c
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Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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