![]() ![]() 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. 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. Ambrose.īook Synopsis The real war, said Walt Whitman, will never get in the books. This reissue of his 1945 classic book of text and drawings features a spectacular new Foreword by Stephen E. About the Book In his drawings of the infantry dogfaces Willie and Joe, Pulitzer Prize winner Bill Mauldin created the immortal archetypes of the American fighting man. ![]()
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