Up Front
of Bill Mauldin, Stephen E. Ambrose (Introduction)
Description
The real war," said Walt Whitman, "will never get in the books." During World War II, the truest glimpse most Americans got of the "real war" came through the flashing black lines of twenty-two-year-old infantry sergeant Bill Mauldin. Week after week, Mauldin defied army censors, German artillery, and Patton's pledge to "throw his ass in jail" to deliver his wildly popular cartoon, "Up Front," to the pages of Stars and Stripes. "Up Front" featured the wise-cracking Willie and Joe, whose stooped shoulders, mud-soaked uniforms, and pidgin of army slang and slum dialect bore eloquent witness to the world of combat and the men who livedâand diedâin it.This taut, lushly illustrated biographyâthe first of two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bill Mauldinâis illustrated with more than ninety classic Mauldin cartoons and rare photographs. It traces the improbable career and tumultuous private life of a charismatic genius who rose to fame on his motto: "If it's big, hit it.
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- Format Hardcover
- Pages 240 pages
- Publisher W.W. Norton & Company
- Publication Date December 28th 2000
- First Publication 11/06/45
- Language English
- ISBN 9780393050318
- Edition Not informed
- Category History & Politics
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