A collection of Ernie Pyle's World War II columns, complete with datelines, photographs, biographical essays, and historical notes on the campaigns Pyle covered.

A wonderful and enduring tribute to American troops in the Second World War,Here Is Your War is Ernie Pyle’s story of the soldiers’ first campaign against the enemy in North Africa. With unequaled humanity and insight, Pyle tells how people from a cross-section of America—ranches, inner cities, small mountain farms, and college towns—learned to fight a war. The Allied campaign and ultimate victory in North Africa was built on blood, brave...

Pyle was sent to London in December of 1940 to cover the Blitz-- and to write positive articles about the British that would get Americans on their side in the growing European conflict. His articles, about the out-of-the-way places he visited and the people who lived there, were written in a folksy style much like a personal letter to a friend. This is a compilation of his columns.

"Here Is Your War is Ernie Pyle's story of the soldiers' first campaign against the enemy in North Africa. Pyle tells how people from a cross-section of America - ranches, inner cities, small mountain farms, and college towns - learned to fight a war. The Allied campaign and ultimate victory in North Africa were build on blood, brave deeds, sacrifice and needless loss, exotic vistas, endurance, homesickness, and an unmistakable American sense of humor."....

A collection of journalist Pyle's newspaper columns from 1943 and 1944, in which he details the fighting in Europe primarily from the perspective of the common U.S. G.I. This angle of reporting brought the front-line war back to the families of those serving in the armed forces and endeared Pyle to the troops.