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Ernie Pyle began reporting on the North African battlefield as a war correspondent in 1942. He followed the troop transport ship to Africa and experienced the gunfire and smoke of the Tunisian campaign with the Allied soldiers. 1St Infantry Division and 1st Armored Division, privates and privates, jeeps and GMC two-and-a-half-ton trucks and Douglas DC-3 cargo planes, prisoners of war and trophies, dive bombing and machine gun fire, snakes and lizards, doctors and nurses, rations and blankets, behind it all lay graves and graves and graves. Pyle tells "our war" from various angles and in every detail. The Allies, the Germans, the French, and the Arabs, from soldiers to officers, Pyle observed them without any preconceived views and found that they had both illusions and realities about war. For the Allied soldiers, they died, and so those who were left could live on.

Ernie Pyle, the United States' chief war correspondent during World War II and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. In his writings, he described the European battlefield in 1943-1944 in detail, recreating this life-and-death historical moment before his eyes. His writings cover almost every link from logistics to air force. From Army Group Commander Bradley to the soldiers at the front line, they are all his friends. He understands their joys, sorrows and joys, and faces the death, dirt and impermanence of war. The soldiers in his works are ordinary people from all walks of life with different hopes for the future, and they are also resolute and strong "brave men". They only need to withstand an air raid for one and a half hours to become veterans. They use apple trees as curtains and grass as carpets, with direct eyes indifferent to everything, and then recover at an alarming speed. Pyle writes about the reality of war that is real rather than imaginary, strong-spirited rather than high-spirited, in which the bravery of mankind shines through.