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Dec 1, 2000 · Up Front. Hardcover – December 1, 2000. by Bill Mauldin (Author), Stephen E. Ambrose (Foreword) 4.8 306 ratings. See all formats and editions. The definitive biography of the greatest cartoonist of the Greatest Generation. "The real war," said Walt Whitman, "will never get in the books." During World War II, the truest glimpse most Americans ...
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- Bill Mauldin
Jan 1, 1995 · In Up Front, recently reissued as a 50th-anniversary volume, Mauldin joins an absorbing narrative account of just how hellish combat is to a selection of those cartoons. Reading through this powerful book, one sees why Mauldin, in demythologizing the war, was often accused of undoing the efforts of the morale officers and politicians who ...
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Up Front, Bill Mauldin (1921-2003), 1945, reissued 1968, 228 pages, Dewey 940.549 Mauldin drew cartoons of men able to fight a ruthless war against ruthless enemies, and still grin at themselves. p. 5. Nobody who has seen this war can be cute about it while it's going on. p. 7.
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Cartoonist Bill Mauldin's Up Front is a must-read for anyone wanting to get the soldier's perspective of war and in particular the viewpoint of men who served in the infantry during World War II. Through his words as well as his famous Willie and Joe cartoons, he gives an affectionate, although a starkly realistic, and definitely unglamorous ...
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Oct 3, 2000 · "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 ...
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- Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
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Dec 5, 2000 · "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 ...
Dec 5, 2000 · Up Front. Hardcover – Illustrated, Dec 5 2000. by Bill Mauldin (Author), Stephen Ambrose (Foreword) 4.8 244 ratings. See all formats and editions. The definitive biography of the greatest cartoonist of the Greatest Generation. "The real war," said Walt Whitman, "will never get in the books." During World War II, the truest glimpse most ...
- Bill Mauldin
