April 30, 2024
Up Front by Bill Mauldin World War II Story and Drawings of the Combat GI tj
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Up Front.Text and Pictures by Bill Mauldin.1945.228 pages.6 by 9 1/4 inches."If you recognized Willie and Joe on the front of this jacket, the chances are you are turning the cover to see what sort of book Bill Mauldin, greatest cartoonist of this war, has put together...Text and pictures together make what we believe to be one of the finest books of the war, the kind to show people, in the years to come, what it was like in our time."At 23 Bill Mauldin is recognized as an artist of major stature...He has been under fire in the slit trenches and the rain and the mud with our frontline soldiers, and he knows was for the dirty mess it is..." - excerpts off the front jacket flap."My business is drawing, not writing, and this text is pretty much background for the drawings...During the three years I spend in the 45th Division, I was certain that it was not only the best division in the army, but that it was the army. Since then I have kicked around in more than 15 other divisions..." - excerpt by the author off the first page.Mr. Mauldin (1921-2003) was an editorial cartoonist who won two Pulitzer Prizes. Besides his work from World War II, he is famous for his cartoon after the assassination of President Kennedy. - .Thank you!
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