Todd DePastino

Bill Mauldin: A Life Up Front

Buch

The real war, said Walt Whitman, will never get in the books. During World War II, the truest glimpse most Americans got of the real war came through the flashing black lines of twenty-two-year-old infantry sergeant Bill Mauldin. Week after week, Mauldin defied army censors, German artillery, and Patton's pledge to throw his ass in jail to deliver his wildly popular cartoon, Up Front, to the pages of Stars and Stripes. Up Front featured the wise-cracking Willie and Joe, whose stooped shoulders, mud-soaked uniforms, and pidgin of army slang and slum dialect bore eloquent witness to the world of combat and the men who lived-and died-in it. This… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-393-06183-3
EAN: 9780393061833
Produktnummer: 2953674
Verlag: W W Norton & Co
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Seitenangabe: 370 S.
Masse: H24.0 cm x B16.4 cm x D2.8 cm 462 g
Gewicht: 462

Über den Autor

Todd DePastino is the author of Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America and Bill Mauldin: A Life Up Front, and the editor of the cartoon collections Willie & Joe: The WWII Years and Willie & Joe: Back Home. He teaches history and writes and lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.