| ID | 158507 |
| Title Proper | You didn’t see him lying … beside the gravel road in france |
| Other Title Information | death, distance, and american war politics |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Dudziak, Mary L |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | They came just after dark,” American war correspondent Ernie Pyle wrote from London in December 1940, about a German bombing raid. “Somehow I could sense from the quick, bitter firing of the guns that there was to be no monkey business this night.” From a balcony, he watched “a night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire.” With dark buildings illuminated by the glow of hundreds of fires, balloons visible against pink clouds, a star peeking between them, it was “the most hateful, most beautiful single scene I have ever known.” Pyle thought of the day when he would be able “to tell somebody who has never seen it how London looked on a certain night in the holiday season of the year 1940.” |
| `In' analytical Note | Diplomatic History Vol. 42, No.1; Jan 2018: p.1–16 |
| Journal Source | Diplomatic History Vol: 42 No 1 |
| Key Words | France ; Death ; Distance ; American War Politics |