![]() As for the timelessness of this book, David Halberstam puts it best: "One senses that if a war reporter who had been with Hannibal or Napoleon saw Mauldin's work, he would know immediately that the work was right". He knew their gripes, their fears, their jokes, and their opinions, and he recorded their talk with the most pungent accuracy. ![]() ![]() 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. 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. ![]() Up Front by Bill Mauldin is one of the most famous books to emerge from the Second World War, a classic in every sense of the word. ![]()
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