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ISBN-10: 0393050319

ISBN-13: 9780393050318

Edition: 2000

Authors: Bill Mauldin, Stephen Ambrose

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The 1945 classic book of text and drawings with a spectacular foreword by Stephen E. Ambrose. Up Frontis one of the most famous books to emerge from the Second World War and remains an icon of the "greatest generation." In his drawings of the infantry dogfaces Willie and Joe, done while he himself fought in campaigns in Sicily and Italy, Bill Mauldin created the immortal archetypes of the American fighting man. He knew, as one who had been on the front lines and in the trenches, that Willie and Joewith their unshaven faces, their gallows humor, their fortitude, and their dislike of privilege and cantexemplify something enduring and noble about Americans at war.Up Frontis a vivid piece of…    
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Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/3/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 6.33" wide x 9.56" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

J. C. Holt was Master of Fitzwilliam College and Professor of Medieval History at the University of Cambridge.Born in 1921, Bill Mauldin squeezed several lifetimes into his eighty-one years. In addition to cartooning, he acted in Hollywood movies, ran for Congress, piloted airplanes, wrote several books and hundreds of articles, and won two Pulitzer Prizes, the first for his wartime cartoons. He died in 2003.