10-31-2005, 01:21 PM
One of the best books I read on reporting of WW2 is:
"Brave Men." by Ernie Pyle - New York 1944.
I obtained a copy of this from the public library here in Wiltshire UK.
Ernie Pyle was a famous war correspondent and went ashore with the US 7th Army in Sicily. He was killed in the Pacific in 1945. This is what he wrote about those who died in Sicily during the 38 days of Operation Husky 1943:
There is nothing we can do
for the ones beneath the
wooden crosses except to
pause and murmur, 'Thanks Pal'.
Colin.
