Up Front
by Bill Mauldin
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Up Front is one of the most famous books to emerge from the Second World War, a classic in every sense of the word. In his drawings of the infantry dog-faces Willie and Joe, done while he himself fought in campaigns in Sicily and Italy, Mauldin created the immortal archetypes of the American fighting man. He knew, as one who had been there himself on the front lines and in the slit trenches, drenched with mud and rain, that Willie and Joe - with their unshaven faces, their gallows humor, their fortitude, and their dislike of privilege and cant - exemplify something enduring and surely noble about Americans at war. He knew their gripes, their fears, their jokes, and their opinions, and he recorded their talk with the most pungent accuracy.
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Cartoons, paintings, World War, 1939-1945, Pictorial American wit and humor, Caricatures and cartoons, Humor, Caricatures, Second World War, Caricatures et dessins humoristiques, Guerre mondiale, American wit and humor, Comic strips & cartoons, English Short stories, Legends, Theater, Pictorial works, American wit and humor, pictorial, World war, 1939-1945, humor, caricatures, etc.Times
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Edition Notes
Facsimile edition reissued with new introduction.
Includes original text and illustrations.
Originally published in New York by H. Holt on 1945.
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