The Day of Battle...why Ernie Pyle was famous! some spare words..

 “Everything in this world had stopped except war,” Pyle wrote, “and we were all men of a new profession out in a strange night.”

Atkinson, Rick (2007-10-02). The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (The Liberation Trilogy) (Kindle Locations 799-800). Henry Holt and Co.. Kindle Edition.