Up Front - Rilegato

Mauldin, Bill

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ISBN 10: 0393050319 ISBN 13: 9780393050318

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2000

Riassunto

Originally published in 1945, a volume of classic World War II military cartoons by a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner reflects the creator's service in the campaigns in Sicily and Italy and features the wryly humorous experiences of infantry characters Willie and Joe. Reissue.

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"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 taut, lushly illustrated biography-the first of two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bill Mauldin-is illustrated with more than ninety classic Mauldin cartoons and rare photographs. 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."

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• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0393050319
• ISBN 13: 9780393050318
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 228