Todd Depastino

Bill Mauldin: A Life Up Front

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A deeply felt, vivacious and wonderfully illustrated biography.” —Clancy Sigal, Los Angeles Times Book ReviewA self-described desert rat” who rocketed to fame at the age of twenty-two, Bill Mauldin used flashing black brush lines and sardonic captions to capture the world of the American combat soldier in World War II. His cartoon dogfaces, Willie and Joe, appeared in Stars and Stripes and hundreds of newspapers back home, bearing grim witness to life in the foxhole. We've never viewed war in the same way since. This lushly illustrated biography draws on private papers, correspondence, and thousands of original drawings to render a full portr… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-393-06957-0
EAN: 9780393069570
Produktnummer: 34245773
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Seitenangabe: 384 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 313 KB
Abbildungen: 92 illustrations

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.