Up Front by Mauldin, Bill

Up Front

The real war, said Walt Whitman, will never get in the books. During World War II, the...
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Author: Bill Mauldin
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Language: English
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Up Front by Mauldin, Bill

Up Front

$74.00

Up Front

$74.00
Author: Bill Mauldin
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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 lived--and died--in it.This taut, lushly illustrated biography--the first of two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bill Mauldin--is 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.

Author: Bill Mauldin
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 10/03/2000
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.16lbs
Size: 9.58h x 6.38w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9780393050318


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 02/01/2001 pg. 129

About the Author
Mauldin, Bill: - Born in 1921, Bill Mauldin squeezed several lifetimes into his eighty-one years. In addition to cartooning, he acted in Hollywood movies, ran for Congress, piloted airplanes, wrote several books and hundreds of articles, and won two Pulitzer Prizes, the first for his wartime cartoons. He died in 2003.Ambrose, Stephen E.: - The distinguished historian Stephen E. Ambrose is the author of several best-selling books on World War II and was an editor of the Eisenhower Papers.

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