Up Front
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…
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Weitere Autoren: Ambrose, Stephen E. (Solist)
- ISBN: 978-0-393-05031-8
- EAN: 9780393050318
- Produktnummer: 9546042
- Verlag: W W Norton & Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
- Seitenangabe: 228 S.
- Masse: H24.3 cm x B16.2 cm x D2.4 cm 526 g
- Auflage: Reissued
- Gewicht: 526
Über den Autor
Born in 1921, Bill Mauldin squeezed several lifetimes into his eighty-one years. In addition to cartooning, he acted in Hollywood movies, ran for Congress, piloted airplanes, wrote several books and hundreds of articles, and won two Pulitzer Prizes, the first for his wartime cartoons. He died in 2003.
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