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Brave Men
by Ernie Pyle
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
$10.00$7.00
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company, 1944 Henry Holt and Company, New York. 1944. Hardcover. Book Club Edition with BCE News review laid -in. Stated A Wartime Book on the copyright page. Pages are all printed as full page not two column as later in the war. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light bumping to head and tail; light shelfwear to head, tail, tips. No DJ. Tan cloth boards and spine with red lettering on spine. Clean internals. Interior hinges are sound and not split. Title page wreath is in black. 474 pp 8vo. This Ernie 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.
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 #
- 015743
- Title
- Brave Men
- Author
- Ernie Pyle
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1944
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- ERNIE PYLE, WAR CORRESPONDENTS, IN ITALY, FRANCE, WRITERS, EUROPE, SICILY, OPERATION OVERLORD, HEDGEROWS, ARMY AIR FORCE, STARS AND STRIPES NEWSPAPER, Le Shima, writer, military writer, Japan, Germany,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Memoirs;
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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- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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