Ernie Pyle in the American Southwest -- Paperback / softback

A well-written and researched slice of the famous war correspondent's peripatetic life. Focusing on Pyle's last years in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he and his wife settled before his death in 1945, Melzer (history, U. of New Mexico-Valencia) tries to do with this biography what Pyle had done for the average foot soldier in World War II. He gives the reader a close and personal account of the man, written in a broad and "every man" language to appeal to the "average Joe" that Pyle so ardently typified in his own columns. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.