A Death in San Pietro : The Untold Story of Ernie Pyle, John Huston, and the Fight for Purple Heart Valley
by
Tim Brady
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0306822148
ISBN-13
9780306822148
Publisher
Hachette Books
Imprint
Da Capo Press Inc
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 5th, 2013
Print length
304 Pages
Weight
496 grams
Dimensions
16.10 x 23.80 x 3.10 cms
Product Classification:
Second World War
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The stories of three men-an army captain, Ernie Pyle and John Huston- and one death in a bloody battle over a small Italian village
By the time Mark Clark''s Fifth Army reached the small village of San Pietro north of Naples in the first week of December 1943, a tough but rapid sweep through Sicily came to a muddy halt. On the slopes of a distant mountain, the death of a single platoon captain, Henry Waskow, epitomized the struggle.
A Death in San Pietro chronicles the quietly heroic and beloved Captain Waskow and his company as they make their way into battle. Waskow''s 36th ("Texas") Division would ultimately succeed in driving the Germans off the mountains; but not before eighty percent of Waskow''s company is lost in action.
For Americans back home, two of the war''s most lasting artistic expression brought horrified focus to the battlefield, already dubbed "Purple Heart Valley" by the men of the 36th. Pulitzer Prize-winner Ernie Pyle''s dispatch about Waskow''s death and filmmaker John Huston''s award-winning documentary of the battle rivets--and shocks--the nation, bringing, as if for the first time, the awful carnage of world war into living rooms across America.
A Death in San Pietro chronicles the quietly heroic and beloved Captain Waskow and his company as they make their way into battle. Waskow''s 36th ("Texas") Division would ultimately succeed in driving the Germans off the mountains; but not before eighty percent of Waskow''s company is lost in action.
For Americans back home, two of the war''s most lasting artistic expression brought horrified focus to the battlefield, already dubbed "Purple Heart Valley" by the men of the 36th. Pulitzer Prize-winner Ernie Pyle''s dispatch about Waskow''s death and filmmaker John Huston''s award-winning documentary of the battle rivets--and shocks--the nation, bringing, as if for the first time, the awful carnage of world war into living rooms across America.
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