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Up Front
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by Bill Mauldin and Stephen E. Ambrose
Sales Rank : 62140
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Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: W. W. Norton December 2000
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0393050319
ISBN-13: 978-0393050318
Product Dimensions:
9.2 x 6.3 x 1.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
Product Review
Throughout World War II, cartoonist Bill Mauldin documented the adventures and misadventures of dogfaces Willie and Joe, symbols of the hard-pressed infantry, "the group which gives more and gets less than anybody else." 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 assured the home front that our boys were having a fine time of it in Europe. No, Mauldin replied through Willie and Joe, our boys are being maimed and killed every day. For his honesty, the troops loved him -- and Mauldin loved them= back.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
Speaking of Americana . With the memory of the war as fresh as the ink on the pages, Mauldin's text and drawings of the American dogface GI in combat became a classic the minute it rolled off the press in 1945 and remains an essential title for libraries. This edition contains a new foreword by Stephen Ambrose.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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