{"product_id":"brave-men-9780143137177","title":"Brave Men","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe classic, human-scale account of the soldiers who fought in World War II, by Pulitzer Prize winner Ernie Pyle--America's most famous and most loved war correspondent--featuring a new introduction by David Chrisinger, the author of the new Ernie Pyle biography, \u003ci\u003eThe Soldier's Truth\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A Penguin Classic \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen America entered World War II, Ernie Pyle followed the soldiers into the trenches. Long before television and the internet beamed combat footage directly to us, his dispatches from the front lines augmented the coverage of the war's politics, strategies, and macro-level mobilizations to give the American public what he called his \"worm's-eye view\" of the day-to-day life of the war. He captured, as John Steinbeck described it in \u003ci\u003eTime \u003c\/i\u003emagazine, the \"war of the homesick, weary, funny, violent, common men who wash their socks in their helmets, complain about the food . . . and bring themselves through as dirty a business as the world has ever seen and do it with humor and dignity and courage--and that is Ernie Pyle's war.\" A number-one bestseller upon its publication in 1944, \u003ci\u003eBrave Men \u003c\/i\u003eremains unmatched in its clarity, sympathy, and grit as a portrait of America's boys who fought in Europe, and lives on as a testament to the enduring value of embedded journalism in reporting the truth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/30\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780143137177\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 544\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs","brand":"Ernie Pyle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42824500052149,"sku":"9780143137177","price":20.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_5bf78126-4f6b-415d-a620-a6a3189f0004.jpg?v=1680620024","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/brave-men-9780143137177","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}