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A Death in San Pietro - The Untold Story of Ernie Pyle, John Huston, and the Fight for Purple Heart Valley (Hardcover)
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A Death in San Pietro - The Untold Story of Ernie Pyle, John Huston, and the Fight for Purple Heart Valley (Hardcover)
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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.
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