Books, Arts & Manners: Rendezvous on Ie-Jima

Ernie’s War: The Best of Ernie Pyle’s World War II Dispatches, edited by David Nichols, with a foreword by Studs Terkel (Random House, 448 pp., $.19.95)

After he was killed by a Japanese sniper on the obscure island of Ie-Jima in April of 1945, Ernie Pyle somehow evaporated from the national consciousness. There was widespread mourning at the time, including presidential condolences, for Pyle had become a national hero. But then, like the war, he was gone.

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Ernie’s War: The Best of Ernie Pyle’s World War II Dispatches, edited by David Nichols, with a foreword by Studs Terkel (Random House, 448 pp., $.19.95)

After he was killed by a Japanese sniper on the obscure island of Ie-Jima in April of 1945, Ernie Pyle somehow evaporated from the national consciousness. There was widespread mourning at the time, including presidential condolences, for Pyle had become a national hero. But then, like the war, he was gone.