Up Front

Description

*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.

Description

A collection of the work of cartoonist Bill Mauldin reflects his experiences as an enlisted man, in cartoons that capture the humor, boredom, and horror of the common soldier's daily life.

Subjects

Genres

• Caricatures and cartoons.

Other Editions

• Up FrontW.W. Norton2000-01-01
• Up Front, Text and PicturesHolt1945-01-01
• Up FrontThe World Publishing Company1945-01-01
• Up FrontH. Holt and company1945-01-01
• Up FrontH. Holt and company1945-01-01
• Up FrontW. W. Norton1968-01-01