Bill Mauldins Up Front HC New Printing
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"UP FRONT is one of the most famous books to emerge from the Second World War and remains an icon of the ""greatest generation."" In his drawings of the infantry dogfaces Willie and Joe, done while he himself fought in campaigns in Sicily and Itayl, Bill 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 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."
