Up Front

By Bill Mauldin

Subjects: Caricatures et dessins humoristiques, English Short stories, Guerre mondiale, Pictorial American wit and humor, World war, 1939-1945, humor, caricatures, etc., World War, 1939-1945, Theater, Pictorial works, American wit and humor, Caricatures and cartoons, Cartoons, paintings, Legends, American wit and humor, pictorial, Second World War, Humor, Comic strips & cartoons, Caricatures

Description: *Up Front* is one of the most famous books to emerge from the Second World War, a classic in every sense of the word. In his drawings of the infantry dog-faces Willie and Joe, done while he himself fought in campaigns in Sicily and Italy, Mauldin created the immortal archetypes of the American fighting man. He knew, as one who had been there himself on the front lines and in the slit trenches, drenched with mud and rain, that Willie and Joe - with their unshaven faces, their gallows humor, their fortitude, and their dislike of privilege and cant - exemplify something enduring and surely noble about Americans at war. He knew their gripes, their fears, their jokes, and their opinions, and he recorded their talk with the most pungent accuracy.