![]() ![]() Publishers Weekly Willie and Joe: The WWII Years by Bill Mauldin (Author. It traces the improbable career and tumultuous private life of a charismatic genius who rose to fame on his motto: "If it's big, hit it." 92 illustrations. Review Quotes Bill Mauldin: A Life Up Front by Todd DePastino (Author). This taut, lushly illustrated biographythe first of two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bill Mauldinis illustrated with more than ninety classic Mauldin cartoons and rare photographs. "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 … More and the men who livedand diedin it. 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 ofStars and Stripes. Genres History World War II War Nonfiction Military Fiction Humor Comics. ![]() "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. Up front Bill Mauldin 4.43 1,454 ratings130 reviews Cartoons of the famed WWII artist, together with running commentary. ![]() Description: The definitive biography of the greatest cartoonist of the Greatest Generation. ![]()
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